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4 [](#readme)
6 [](#release-files "Release")
7 []
(https://pypi.org/project/yt-dlp "PyPi")
8 [](Collaborators.md#collaborators "Donate")
9 []
(https://matrix.to/#/#yt-dlp:matrix.org "Matrix")
10 []
(https://discord.gg/H5MNcFW63r "Discord")
11 [](supportedsites.md "Supported Sites")
12 [](LICENSE "License")
13 []
(https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/actions "CI Status")
14 []
(https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commits "Commit History")
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(https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commits "Commit History")
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20 yt-dlp is a
[youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl) fork based on the now inactive
[youtube-dlc](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc). The main focus of this project is adding new features and patches while also keeping up to date with the original project
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25 * [NEW FEATURES](#new-features)
26 * [Differences in default behavior](#differences-in-default-behavior)
27 * [INSTALLATION](#installation)
29 * [Release Files](#release-files)
30 * [Dependencies](#dependencies)
32 * [USAGE AND OPTIONS](#usage-and-options)
33 * [General Options](#general-options)
34 * [Network Options](#network-options)
35 * [Geo-restriction](#geo-restriction)
36 * [Video Selection](#video-selection)
37 * [Download Options](#download-options)
38 * [Filesystem Options](#filesystem-options)
39 * [Thumbnail Options](#thumbnail-options)
40 * [Internet Shortcut Options](#internet-shortcut-options)
41 * [Verbosity and Simulation Options](#verbosity-and-simulation-options)
42 * [Workarounds](#workarounds)
43 * [Video Format Options](#video-format-options)
44 * [Subtitle Options](#subtitle-options)
45 * [Authentication Options](#authentication-options)
46 * [Post-processing Options](#post-processing-options)
47 * [SponsorBlock Options](#sponsorblock-options)
48 * [Extractor Options](#extractor-options)
49 * [CONFIGURATION](#configuration)
50 * [Authentication with .netrc file](#authentication-with-netrc-file)
51 * [OUTPUT TEMPLATE](#output-template)
52 * [Output template and Windows batch files](#output-template-and-windows-batch-files)
53 * [Output template examples](#output-template-examples)
54 * [FORMAT SELECTION](#format-selection)
55 * [Filtering Formats](#filtering-formats)
56 * [Sorting Formats](#sorting-formats)
57 * [Format Selection examples](#format-selection-examples)
58 * [MODIFYING METADATA](#modifying-metadata)
59 * [Modifying metadata examples](#modifying-metadata-examples)
60 * [EXTRACTOR ARGUMENTS](#extractor-arguments)
62 * [EMBEDDING YT-DLP](#embedding-yt-dlp)
63 * [Embedding examples](#embedding-examples)
64 * [DEPRECATED OPTIONS](#deprecated-options)
65 * [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md#contributing-to-yt-dlp)
66 * [Opening an Issue](CONTRIBUTING.md#opening-an-issue)
67 * [Developer Instructions](CONTRIBUTING.md#developer-instructions)
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74 * Based on **youtube-dl
2021.12.17 [commit/6508688](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/6508688e88c83bb811653083db9351702cd39a6a)** (
[exceptions](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/21)) and **youtube-dlc
2020.11.11-
3 [commit/f9401f2](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc/commit/f9401f2a91987068139c5f757b12fc711d4c0cee)**: You get all the features and patches of
[youtube-dlc](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc) in addition to the latest
[youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl)
76 * **
[SponsorBlock Integration](#sponsorblock-options)**: You can mark/remove sponsor sections in youtube videos by utilizing the [SponsorBlock](https://sponsor.ajay.app) API
78 * **[Format Sorting](#sorting-formats)**: The default format sorting options have been changed so that higher resolution and better codecs will be now preferred instead of simply using larger bitrate. Furthermore, you can now specify the sort order using
`-S`. This allows for much easier format selection than what is possible by simply using
`--format` ([examples](#format-selection-examples))
80 * **Merged with animelover1984/youtube-dl**: You get most of the features and improvements from
[animelover1984/youtube-dl](https://github.com/animelover1984/youtube-dl) including
`--write-comments`,
`BiliBiliSearch`,
`BilibiliChannel`, Embedding thumbnail in mp4/ogg/opus, playlist infojson etc. Note that the NicoNico livestreams are not available. See
[#31](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/31) for details.
82 * **Youtube improvements**:
83 * All Feeds (
`:ytfav`,
`:ytwatchlater`,
`:ytsubs`,
`:ythistory`,
`:ytrec`,
`:ytnotif`) and private playlists supports downloading multiple pages of content
84 * Search (
`ytsearch:`,
`ytsearchdate:`), search URLs and in-channel search works
85 * Mixes supports downloading multiple pages of content
86 * Some (but not all) age-gated content can be downloaded without cookies
87 * Fix for
[n-sig based throttling](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326)
88 * Redirect channel's home URL automatically to
`/video` to preserve the old behaviour
89 * `255kbps` audio is extracted (if available) from youtube music when premium cookies are given
90 * Youtube music Albums, channels etc can be downloaded (
[except self-uploaded music](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/723))
91 * Download livestreams from the start using
`--live-from-start` (experimental)
92 * Support for downloading stories (
`ytstories:<channel UCID>`)
94 * **Cookies from browser**: Cookies can be automatically extracted from all major web browsers using
`--cookies-from-browser BROWSER[+KEYRING][:PROFILE]`
96 * **Split video by chapters**: Videos can be split into multiple files based on chapters using
`--split-chapters`
98 * **Multi-threaded fragment downloads**: Download multiple fragments of m3u8/mpd videos in parallel. Use
`--concurrent-fragments` (
`-N`) option to set the number of threads used
100 * **Aria2c with HLS/DASH**: You can use
`aria2c` as the external downloader for DASH(mpd) and HLS(m3u8) formats
102 * **New and fixed extractors**: Many new extractors have been added and a lot of existing ones have been fixed. See the [changelog](Changelog.md) or the [list of supported sites](supportedsites.md)
104 * **New MSOs**: Philo, Spectrum, SlingTV, Cablevision, RCN
106 * **Subtitle extraction from manifests**: Subtitles can be extracted from streaming media manifests. See
[commit/be6202f](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/be6202f12b97858b9d716e608394b51065d0419f) for details
108 * **Multiple paths and output templates**: You can give different [output templates](#output-template) and download paths for different types of files. You can also set a temporary path where intermediary files are downloaded to using
`--paths` (
`-P`)
110 * **Portable Configuration**: Configuration files are automatically loaded from the home and root directories. See [configuration](#configuration) for details
112 * **Output template improvements**: Output templates can now have date-time formatting, numeric offsets, object traversal etc. See [output template](#output-template) for details. Even more advanced operations can also be done with the help of
`--parse-metadata` and
`--replace-in-metadata`
114 * **Other new options**: Many new options have been added such as
`--concat-playlist`,
`--print`,
`--wait-for-video`,
`--sleep-requests`,
`--convert-thumbnails`,
`--write-link`,
`--force-download-archive`,
`--force-overwrites`,
`--break-on-reject` etc
116 * **Improvements**: Regex and other operators in
`--format`/
`--match-filter`, multiple
`--postprocessor-args` and
`--downloader-args`, faster archive checking, more [format selection options](#format-selection), merge multi-video/audio, multiple
`--config-locations`,
`--exec` at different stages, etc
118 * **Plugins**: Extractors and PostProcessors can be loaded from an external file. See [plugins](#plugins) for details
120 * **Self-updater**: The releases can be updated using
`yt-dlp -U`
122 See
[changelog](Changelog.md) or [commits](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commits) for the full list of changes
124 ### Differences in default behavior
126 Some of yt-dlp's default options are different from that of youtube-dl and youtube-dlc:
128 * The options
`--auto-number` (
`-A`),
`--title` (
`-t`) and
`--literal` (
`-l`), no longer work. See [removed options](#Removed) for details
129 * `avconv` is not supported as an alternative to
`ffmpeg`
130 * yt-dlp stores config files in slightly different locations to youtube-dl. See [configuration](#configuration) for a list of correct locations
131 * The default [output template](#output-template) is
`%(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s`. There is no real reason for this change. This was changed before yt-dlp was ever made public and now there are no plans to change it back to
`%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s`. Instead, you may use
`--compat-options filename`
132 * The default [format sorting](#sorting-formats) is different from youtube-dl and prefers higher resolution and better codecs rather than higher bitrates. You can use the
`--format-sort` option to change this to any order you prefer, or use
`--compat-options format-sort` to use youtube-dl's sorting order
133 * The default format selector is
`bv*+ba/b`. This means that if a combined video + audio format that is better than the best video-only format is found, the former will be preferred. Use
`-f bv+ba/b` or
`--compat-options format-spec` to revert this
134 * Unlike youtube-dlc, yt-dlp does not allow merging multiple audio/video streams into one file by default (since this conflicts with the use of
`-f bv*+ba`). If needed, this feature must be enabled using
`--audio-multistreams` and
`--video-multistreams`. You can also use
`--compat-options multistreams` to enable both
135 * `--no-abort-on-error` is enabled by default. Use
`--abort-on-error` or
`--compat-options abort-on-error` to abort on errors instead
136 * When writing metadata files such as thumbnails, description or infojson, the same information (if available) is also written for playlists. Use
`--no-write-playlist-metafiles` or
`--compat-options no-playlist-metafiles` to not write these files
137 * `--add-metadata` attaches the
`infojson` to
`mkv` files in addition to writing the metadata when used with
`--write-info-json`. Use
`--no-embed-info-json` or
`--compat-options no-attach-info-json` to revert this
138 * Some metadata are embedded into different fields when using
`--add-metadata` as compared to youtube-dl. Most notably,
`comment` field contains the
`webpage_url` and
`synopsis` contains the
`description`. You can [use
`--parse-metadata`](#modifying-metadata) to modify this to your liking or use
`--compat-options embed-metadata` to revert this
139 * `playlist_index` behaves differently when used with options like
`--playlist-reverse` and
`--playlist-items`. See
[#302](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/302) for details. You can use
`--compat-options playlist-index` if you want to keep the earlier behavior
140 * The output of
`-F` is listed in a new format. Use
`--compat-options list-formats` to revert this
141 * All *experiences* of a funimation episode are considered as a single video. This behavior breaks existing archives. Use
`--compat-options seperate-video-versions` to extract information from only the default player
142 * Youtube live chat (if available) is considered as a subtitle. Use
`--sub-langs all,-live_chat` to download all subtitles except live chat. You can also use
`--compat-options no-live-chat` to prevent live chat from downloading
143 * Youtube channel URLs are automatically redirected to
`/video`. Append a
`/featured` to the URL to download only the videos in the home page. If the channel does not have a videos tab, we try to download the equivalent
`UU` playlist instead. For all other tabs, if the channel does not show the requested tab, an error will be raised. Also,
`/live` URLs raise an error if there are no live videos instead of silently downloading the entire channel. You may use
`--compat-options no-youtube-channel-redirect` to revert all these redirections
144 * Unavailable videos are also listed for youtube playlists. Use
`--compat-options no-youtube-unavailable-videos` to remove this
145 * If
`ffmpeg` is used as the downloader, the downloading and merging of formats happen in a single step when possible. Use
`--compat-options no-direct-merge` to revert this
146 * Thumbnail embedding in
`mp4` is done with mutagen if possible. Use
`--compat-options embed-thumbnail-atomicparsley` to force the use of AtomicParsley instead
147 * Some private fields such as filenames are removed by default from the infojson. Use
`--no-clean-infojson` or
`--compat-options no-clean-infojson` to revert this
148 * When
`--embed-subs` and
`--write-subs` are used together, the subtitles are written to disk and also embedded in the media file. You can use just
`--embed-subs` to embed the subs and automatically delete the separate file. See
[#630 (comment)](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/630#issuecomment-893659460) for more info.
`--compat-options no-keep-subs` can be used to revert this
149 * `certifi` will be used for SSL root certificates, if installed. If you want to use system certificates (e.g. self-signed), use
`--compat-options no-certifi`
150 * youtube-dl tries to remove some superfluous punctuations from filenames. While this can sometimes be helpfull, it is often undesirable. So yt-dlp tries to keep the fields in the filenames as close to their original values as possible. You can use
`--compat-options filename-sanitization` to revert to youtube-dl's behavior
152 For ease of use, a few more compat options are available:
154 * `--compat-options all`: Use all compat options
155 * `--compat-options youtube-dl`: Same as
`--compat-options all,-multistreams`
156 * `--compat-options youtube-dlc`: Same as
`--compat-options all,-no-live-chat,-no-youtube-channel-redirect`
161 You can install yt-dlp using one of the following methods:
163 ### Using the release binary
165 You can simply download the [correct binary file](#release-files) for your OS
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168 []
(https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.exe)
169 []
(https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp)
170 []
(https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.tar.gz)
171 [](#release-files)
172 []
(https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases)
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175 Note: The manpages, shell completion files etc. are available in the
[source tarball](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.tar.gz)
177 <!-- TODO: Move to Wiki -->
178 In UNIX-like OSes (MacOS, Linux, BSD), you can also install the same in one of the following ways:
181 sudo curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
182 sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
186 sudo wget https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -O /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
187 sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
191 sudo aria2c https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp --dir /usr/local/bin -o yt-dlp
192 sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
196 ### With [PIP](https://pypi.org/project/pip)
198 You can install the
[PyPI package](https://pypi.org/project/yt-dlp) with:
200 python3 -m pip install -U yt-dlp
203 You can install without any of the optional dependencies using:
205 python3 -m pip install --no-deps -U yt-dlp
208 If you want to be on the cutting edge, you can also install the master branch with:
210 python3 -m pip install --force-reinstall https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.tar.gz
213 Note that on some systems, you may need to use
`py` or
`python` instead of
`python3`
215 <!-- TODO: Add to Wiki, Remove Taps -->
216 ### With [Homebrew](https://brew.sh)
218 macOS or Linux users that are using Homebrew can also install it by:
221 brew install yt-dlp/taps/yt-dlp
225 You can use
`yt-dlp -U` to update if you are [using the provided release](#using-the-release-binary)
227 If you [installed with pip](#with-pip), simply re-run the same command that was used to install the program
229 If you [installed using Homebrew](#with-homebrew), run
`brew upgrade yt-dlp/taps/yt-dlp`
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238 [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp)|Platform-independant binary. Needs Python (recommended for **Linux/BSD**)
239 [yt-dlp.exe](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.exe)|Windows (Win7 SP1+) standalone x64 binary (recommended for **Windows**)
240 [yt-dlp_macos](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp_macos)|MacOS (
10.15+) standalone executable (recommended for **MacOS**)
246 [yt-dlp_x86.exe](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp_x86.exe)|Windows (Vista SP2+) standalone x86 (
32-bit) binary
247 [yt-dlp_min.exe](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp_min.exe)|Windows (Win7 SP1+) standalone x64 binary built with
`py2exe`.<br/> Does not contain
`pycryptodomex`, needs VC++
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248 [yt-dlp_win.zip](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp_win.zip)|Unpackaged Windows executable (no auto-update)
249 [yt-dlp_macos.zip](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp_macos.zip)|Unpackaged MacOS (
10.15+) executable (no auto-update)
255 [yt-dlp.tar.gz](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.tar.gz)|Source tarball. Also contains manpages, completions, etc
256 [SHA2-512SUMS](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/SHA2-512SUMS)|GNU-style SHA512 sums
257 [SHA2-256SUMS](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/SHA2-256SUMS)|GNU-style SHA256 sums
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261 Python versions
3.6+ (CPython and PyPy) are supported. Other versions and implementations may or may not work correctly.
263 <!-- Python
3.5+ uses VC++
14 and it is already embedded in the binary created
264 <!x-- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=
26999 --x>
265 On windows,
[Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)](https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/5/165255E7-1014-4D0A-B094-B6A430A6BFFC/vcredist_x86.exe) is also necessary to run yt-dlp. You probably already have this, but if the executable throws an error due to missing
`MSVCR100.dll` you need to install it manually.
268 While all the other dependencies are optional,
`ffmpeg` and
`ffprobe` are highly recommended
270 * [**ffmpeg** and **ffprobe**](https://www.ffmpeg.org) - Required for
[merging separate video and audio files](#format-selection) as well as for various [post-processing](#post-processing-options) tasks. License [depends on the build](https://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html)
271 * [**mutagen**](https://github.com/quodlibet/mutagen)\* - For embedding thumbnail in certain formats. Licensed under
[GPLv2+](https://github.com/quodlibet/mutagen/blob/master/COPYING)
272 * [**pycryptodomex**](https://github.com/Legrandin/pycryptodome)\* - For decrypting AES-
128 HLS streams and various other data. Licensed under
[BSD-2-Clause](https://github.com/Legrandin/pycryptodome/blob/master/LICENSE.rst)
273 * [**websockets**](https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets)\* - For downloading over websocket. Licensed under
[BSD-3-Clause](https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets/blob/main/LICENSE)
274 * [**secretstorage**](https://github.com/mitya57/secretstorage) - For accessing the Gnome keyring while decrypting cookies of Chromium-based browsers on Linux. Licensed under
[BSD-3-Clause](https://github.com/mitya57/secretstorage/blob/master/LICENSE)
275 * [**brotli**](https://github.com/google/brotli)\* or
[**brotlicffi**](https://github.com/python-hyper/brotlicffi) -
[Brotli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotli) content encoding support. Both licensed under MIT <sup>
[1](https://github.com/google/brotli/blob/master/LICENSE) [2](https://github.com/python-hyper/brotlicffi/blob/master/LICENSE) </sup>
276 * [**certifi**](https://github.com/certifi/python-certifi)\* - Provides Mozilla's root certificate bundle. Licensed under
[MPLv2](https://github.com/certifi/python-certifi/blob/master/LICENSE)
277 * [**xattr**](https://github.com/xattr/xattr),
[**pyxattr**](https://github.com/iustin/pyxattr) or
[**setfattr**](http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/attr) - For writing xattr metadata on Linux. Licensed under
[MIT](https://github.com/xattr/xattr/blob/master/LICENSE.txt),
[LGPL2.1](https://github.com/iustin/pyxattr/blob/master/COPYING) and
[GPLv2+](http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/attr.git/tree/doc/COPYING) respectively
278 * [**AtomicParsley**](https://github.com/wez/atomicparsley) - For embedding thumbnail in mp4/m4a if mutagen/ffmpeg cannot. Licensed under
[GPLv2+](https://github.com/wez/atomicparsley/blob/master/COPYING)
279 * [**rtmpdump**](http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu) - For downloading
`rtmp` streams. ffmpeg will be used as a fallback. Licensed under
[GPLv2+](http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu)
280 * [**mplayer**](http://mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html) or
[**mpv**](https://mpv.io) - For downloading
`rstp` streams. ffmpeg will be used as a fallback. Licensed under
[GPLv2+](https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/Copyright)
281 * [**phantomjs**](https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs) - Used in extractors where javascript needs to be run. Licensed under
[BSD-3-Clause](https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/blob/master/LICENSE.BSD)
282 * [**sponskrub**](https://github.com/faissaloo/SponSkrub) - For using the now **deprecated**
[sponskrub options](#sponskrub-options). Licensed under [GPLv3+](https://github.com/faissaloo/SponSkrub/blob/master/LICENCE.md)
283 * Any external downloader that you want to use with
`--downloader`
285 To use or redistribute the dependencies, you must agree to their respective licensing terms.
287 The Windows and MacOS standalone release binaries are built with the Python interpreter and the packages marked with \* included.
289 <!-- TODO: ffmpeg has merged this patch. Remove this note once there is new release -->
290 **Note**: There are some regressions in newer ffmpeg versions that causes various issues when used alongside yt-dlp. Since ffmpeg is such an important dependency, we provide
[custom builds](https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds#ffmpeg-static-auto-builds) with patches for these issues at
[yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds](https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds). See
[the readme](https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds#patches-applied) for details on the specific issues solved by these builds
296 To build the Windows executable, you must have pyinstaller (and any of yt-dlp's optional dependencies if needed). Once you have all the necessary dependencies installed, (optionally) build lazy extractors using
`devscripts/make_lazy_extractors.py`, and then just run
`pyinst.py`. The executable will be built for the same architecture (
32/
64 bit) as the python used to build it.
298 py -m pip install -U pyinstaller -r requirements.txt
299 py devscripts/make_lazy_extractors.py
302 Note that pyinstaller
[does not support](https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller#requirements-and-tested-platforms) Python installed from the Windows store without using a virtual environment
305 You will need the required build tools:
`python`,
`make` (GNU),
`pandoc`,
`zip`,
`pytest`
306 Then simply run
`make`. You can also run
`make yt-dlp` instead to compile only the binary without updating any of the additional files
308 **Note**: In either platform,
`devscripts/update-version.py` can be used to automatically update the version number
310 You can also fork the project on github and run your fork's [build workflow](.github/workflows/build.yml) to automatically build a release
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315 yt-dlp [OPTIONS] [--] URL [URL...]
317 `Ctrl+F` is your friend :D
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320 <!-- Auto generated -->
322 -h, --help Print this help text and exit
323 --version Print program version and exit
324 -U, --update Update this program to latest version
325 -i, --ignore-errors Ignore download and postprocessing errors.
326 The download will be considered successful
327 even if the postprocessing fails
328 --no-abort-on-error Continue with next video on download
329 errors; e.g. to skip unavailable videos in
331 --abort-on-error Abort downloading of further videos if an
332 error occurs (Alias: --no-ignore-errors)
333 --dump-user-agent Display the current user-agent and exit
334 --list-extractors List all supported extractors and exit
335 --extractor-descriptions Output descriptions of all supported
337 --force-generic-extractor Force extraction to use the generic
339 --default-search PREFIX Use this prefix for unqualified URLs. For
340 example "gvsearch2:" downloads two videos
341 from google videos for the search term
342 "large apple". Use the value "auto" to let
343 yt-dlp guess ("auto_warning" to emit a
344 warning when guessing). "error" just throws
345 an error. The default value "fixup_error"
346 repairs broken URLs, but emits an error if
347 this is not possible instead of searching
348 --ignore-config Don't load any more configuration files
349 except those given by --config-locations.
350 For backward compatibility, if this option
351 is found inside the system configuration
352 file, the user configuration is not loaded.
354 --no-config-locations Do not load any custom configuration files
355 (default). When given inside a
356 configuration file, ignore all previous
357 --config-locations defined in the current
359 --config-locations PATH Location of the main configuration file;
360 either the path to the config or its
361 containing directory. Can be used multiple
362 times and inside other configuration files
363 --flat-playlist Do not extract the videos of a playlist,
365 --no-flat-playlist Extract the videos of a playlist
366 --live-from-start Download livestreams from the start.
367 Currently only supported for YouTube
369 --no-live-from-start Download livestreams from the current time
371 --wait-for-video MIN[-MAX] Wait for scheduled streams to become
372 available. Pass the minimum number of
373 seconds (or range) to wait between retries
374 --no-wait-for-video Do not wait for scheduled streams (default)
375 --mark-watched Mark videos watched (even with --simulate)
376 --no-mark-watched Do not mark videos watched (default)
377 --no-colors Do not emit color codes in output
378 --compat-options OPTS Options that can help keep compatibility
379 with youtube-dl or youtube-dlc
380 configurations by reverting some of the
381 changes made in yt-dlp. See "Differences in
382 default behavior" for details
385 --proxy URL Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy.
386 To enable SOCKS proxy, specify a proper
388 socks5://user:pass@
127.0.0.1:
1080/. Pass in
389 an empty string (--proxy "") for direct
391 --socket-timeout SECONDS Time to wait before giving up, in seconds
392 --source-address IP Client-side IP address to bind to
393 -4, --force-ipv4 Make all connections via IPv4
394 -6, --force-ipv6 Make all connections via IPv6
397 --geo-verification-proxy URL Use this proxy to verify the IP address for
398 some geo-restricted sites. The default
399 proxy specified by --proxy (or none, if the
400 option is not present) is used for the
402 --geo-bypass Bypass geographic restriction via faking
403 X-Forwarded-For HTTP header (default)
404 --no-geo-bypass Do not bypass geographic restriction via
405 faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header
406 --geo-bypass-country CODE Force bypass geographic restriction with
407 explicitly provided two-letter ISO
3166-
2
409 --geo-bypass-ip-block IP_BLOCK Force bypass geographic restriction with
410 explicitly provided IP block in CIDR
414 --playlist-start NUMBER Playlist video to start at (default is
1)
415 --playlist-end NUMBER Playlist video to end at (default is last)
416 --playlist-items ITEM_SPEC Playlist video items to download. Specify
417 indices of the videos in the playlist
418 separated by commas like: "--playlist-items
419 1,
2,
5,
8" if you want to download videos
420 indexed
1,
2,
5,
8 in the playlist. You can
421 specify range: "--playlist-items
422 1-
3,
7,
10-
13", it will download the videos
423 at index
1,
2,
3,
7,
10,
11,
12 and
13
424 --min-filesize SIZE Do not download any videos smaller than
425 SIZE (e.g.
50k or
44.6m)
426 --max-filesize SIZE Do not download any videos larger than SIZE
428 --date DATE Download only videos uploaded on this date.
429 The date can be "YYYYMMDD" or in the format
430 [now|today|yesterday][-N[day|week|month|year]].
431 Eg: --date today-
2weeks
432 --datebefore DATE Download only videos uploaded on or before
433 this date. The date formats accepted is the
435 --dateafter DATE Download only videos uploaded on or after
436 this date. The date formats accepted is the
438 --match-filters FILTER Generic video filter. Any field (see
439 "OUTPUT TEMPLATE") can be compared with a
440 number or a string using the operators
441 defined in "Filtering formats". You can
442 also simply specify a field to match if the
443 field is present, use "!field" to check if
444 the field is not present, and "&" to check
445 multiple conditions. Use a "
\" to escape
446 "&" or quotes if needed. If used multiple
447 times, the filter matches if atleast one of
448 the conditions are met. Eg: --match-filter
449 !is_live --match-filter "like_count>?
100 &
450 description~='(?i)
\bcats \& dogs
\b'"
451 matches only videos that are not live OR
452 those that have a like count more than
100
453 (or the like field is not available) and
454 also has a description that contains the
455 phrase "cats & dogs" (ignoring case). Use
456 "--match-filter -" to interactively ask
457 whether to download each video
458 --no-match-filter Do not use generic video filter (default)
459 --no-playlist Download only the video, if the URL refers
460 to a video and a playlist
461 --yes-playlist Download the playlist, if the URL refers to
462 a video and a playlist
463 --age-limit YEARS Download only videos suitable for the given
465 --download-archive FILE Download only videos not listed in the
466 archive file. Record the IDs of all
467 downloaded videos in it
468 --no-download-archive Do not use archive file (default)
469 --max-downloads NUMBER Abort after downloading NUMBER files
470 --break-on-existing Stop the download process when encountering
471 a file that is in the archive
472 --break-on-reject Stop the download process when encountering
473 a file that has been filtered out
474 --break-per-input Make --break-on-existing and --break-on-
475 reject act only on the current input URL
476 --no-break-per-input --break-on-existing and --break-on-reject
477 terminates the entire download queue
478 --skip-playlist-after-errors N Number of allowed failures until the rest
479 of the playlist is skipped
482 -N, --concurrent-fragments N Number of fragments of a dash/hlsnative
483 video that should be downloaded
484 concurrently (default is
1)
485 -r, --limit-rate RATE Maximum download rate in bytes per second
487 --throttled-rate RATE Minimum download rate in bytes per second
488 below which throttling is assumed and the
489 video data is re-extracted (e.g.
100K)
490 -R, --retries RETRIES Number of retries (default is
10), or
492 --file-access-retries RETRIES Number of times to retry on file access
493 error (default is
3), or "infinite"
494 --fragment-retries RETRIES Number of retries for a fragment (default
495 is
10), or "infinite" (DASH, hlsnative and
497 --skip-unavailable-fragments Skip unavailable fragments for DASH,
498 hlsnative and ISM (default)
499 (Alias: --no-abort-on-unavailable-fragment)
500 --abort-on-unavailable-fragment Abort downloading if a fragment is unavailable
501 (Alias: --no-skip-unavailable-fragments)
502 --keep-fragments Keep downloaded fragments on disk after
503 downloading is finished
504 --no-keep-fragments Delete downloaded fragments after
505 downloading is finished (default)
506 --buffer-size SIZE Size of download buffer (e.g.
1024 or
16K)
508 --resize-buffer The buffer size is automatically resized
509 from an initial value of --buffer-size
511 --no-resize-buffer Do not automatically adjust the buffer size
512 --http-chunk-size SIZE Size of a chunk for chunk-based HTTP
513 downloading (e.g.
10485760 or
10M) (default
514 is disabled). May be useful for bypassing
515 bandwidth throttling imposed by a webserver
517 --playlist-reverse Download playlist videos in reverse order
518 --no-playlist-reverse Download playlist videos in default order
520 --playlist-random Download playlist videos in random order
521 --xattr-set-filesize Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with
523 --hls-use-mpegts Use the mpegts container for HLS videos;
524 allowing some players to play the video
525 while downloading, and reducing the chance
526 of file corruption if download is
527 interrupted. This is enabled by default for
529 --no-hls-use-mpegts Do not use the mpegts container for HLS
530 videos. This is default when not
531 downloading live streams
532 --downloader [PROTO:]NAME Name or path of the external downloader to
533 use (optionally) prefixed by the protocols
534 (http, ftp, m3u8, dash, rstp, rtmp, mms) to
535 use it for. Currently supports native,
536 aria2c, avconv, axel, curl, ffmpeg, httpie,
537 wget. You can use this option multiple
538 times to set different downloaders for
539 different protocols. For example,
540 --downloader aria2c --downloader
541 "dash,m3u8:native" will use aria2c for
542 http/ftp downloads, and the native
543 downloader for dash/m3u8 downloads (Alias:
544 --external-downloader)
545 --downloader-args NAME:ARGS Give these arguments to the external
546 downloader. Specify the downloader name and
547 the arguments separated by a colon ":". For
548 ffmpeg, arguments can be passed to
549 different positions using the same syntax
550 as --postprocessor-args. You can use this
551 option multiple times to give different
552 arguments to different downloaders (Alias:
553 --external-downloader-args)
555 ## Filesystem Options:
556 -a, --batch-file FILE File containing URLs to download ("-" for
557 stdin), one URL per line. Lines starting
558 with "#", ";" or "]" are considered as
560 --no-batch-file Do not read URLs from batch file (default)
561 -P, --paths [TYPES:]PATH The paths where the files should be
562 downloaded. Specify the type of file and
563 the path separated by a colon ":". All the
564 same TYPES as --output are supported.
565 Additionally, you can also provide "home"
566 (default) and "temp" paths. All
567 intermediary files are first downloaded to
568 the temp path and then the final files are
569 moved over to the home path after download
570 is finished. This option is ignored if
571 --output is an absolute path
572 -o, --output [TYPES:]TEMPLATE Output filename template; see "OUTPUT
573 TEMPLATE" for details
574 --output-na-placeholder TEXT Placeholder value for unavailable meta
575 fields in output filename template
577 --restrict-filenames Restrict filenames to only ASCII
578 characters, and avoid "&" and spaces in
580 --no-restrict-filenames Allow Unicode characters, "&" and spaces in
582 --windows-filenames Force filenames to be Windows-compatible
583 --no-windows-filenames Make filenames Windows-compatible only if
584 using Windows (default)
585 --trim-filenames LENGTH Limit the filename length (excluding
586 extension) to the specified number of
588 -w, --no-overwrites Do not overwrite any files
589 --force-overwrites Overwrite all video and metadata files.
590 This option includes --no-continue
591 --no-force-overwrites Do not overwrite the video, but overwrite
592 related files (default)
593 -c, --continue Resume partially downloaded files/fragments
595 --no-continue Do not resume partially downloaded
596 fragments. If the file is not fragmented,
597 restart download of the entire file
598 --part Use .part files instead of writing directly
599 into output file (default)
600 --no-part Do not use .part files - write directly
602 --mtime Use the Last-modified header to set the
603 file modification time (default)
604 --no-mtime Do not use the Last-modified header to set
605 the file modification time
606 --write-description Write video description to a .description
608 --no-write-description Do not write video description (default)
609 --write-info-json Write video metadata to a .info.json file
610 (this may contain personal information)
611 --no-write-info-json Do not write video metadata (default)
612 --write-playlist-metafiles Write playlist metadata in addition to the
613 video metadata when using --write-info-json,
614 --write-description etc. (default)
615 --no-write-playlist-metafiles Do not write playlist metadata when using
616 --write-info-json, --write-description etc.
617 --clean-info-json Remove some private fields such as
618 filenames from the infojson. Note that it
619 could still contain some personal
620 information (default)
621 --no-clean-info-json Write all fields to the infojson
622 --write-comments Retrieve video comments to be placed in the
623 infojson. The comments are fetched even
624 without this option if the extraction is
625 known to be quick (Alias: --get-comments)
626 --no-write-comments Do not retrieve video comments unless the
627 extraction is known to be quick (Alias:
629 --load-info-json FILE JSON file containing the video information
630 (created with the "--write-info-json"
632 --cookies FILE Netscape formatted file to read cookies
633 from and dump cookie jar in
634 --no-cookies Do not read/dump cookies from/to file
636 --cookies-from-browser BROWSER[+KEYRING][:PROFILE]
637 The name of the browser and (optionally)
638 the name/path of the profile to load
639 cookies from, separated by a ":". Currently
640 supported browsers are: brave, chrome,
641 chromium, edge, firefox, opera, safari,
642 vivaldi. By default, the most recently
643 accessed profile is used. The keyring used
644 for decrypting Chromium cookies on Linux
645 can be (optionally) specified after the
646 browser name separated by a "+". Currently
647 supported keyrings are: basictext,
648 gnomekeyring, kwallet
649 --no-cookies-from-browser Do not load cookies from browser (default)
650 --cache-dir DIR Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl
651 can store some downloaded information (such
652 as client ids and signatures) permanently.
653 By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/yt-dlp or
655 --no-cache-dir Disable filesystem caching
656 --rm-cache-dir Delete all filesystem cache files
658 ## Thumbnail Options:
659 --write-thumbnail Write thumbnail image to disk
660 --no-write-thumbnail Do not write thumbnail image to disk
662 --write-all-thumbnails Write all thumbnail image formats to disk
663 --list-thumbnails List available thumbnails of each video.
664 Simulate unless --no-simulate is used
666 ## Internet Shortcut Options:
667 --write-link Write an internet shortcut file, depending
668 on the current platform (.url, .webloc or
669 .desktop). The URL may be cached by the OS
670 --write-url-link Write a .url Windows internet shortcut. The
671 OS caches the URL based on the file path
672 --write-webloc-link Write a .webloc macOS internet shortcut
673 --write-desktop-link Write a .desktop Linux internet shortcut
675 ## Verbosity and Simulation Options:
676 -q, --quiet Activate quiet mode. If used with
677 --verbose, print the log to stderr
678 --no-warnings Ignore warnings
679 -s, --simulate Do not download the video and do not write
681 --no-simulate Download the video even if printing/listing
683 --ignore-no-formats-error Ignore "No video formats" error. Useful for
684 extracting metadata even if the videos are
685 not actually available for download
687 --no-ignore-no-formats-error Throw error when no downloadable video
688 formats are found (default)
689 --skip-download Do not download the video but write all
690 related files (Alias: --no-download)
691 -O, --print [WHEN:]TEMPLATE Field name or output template to print to
692 screen, optionally prefixed with when to
693 print it, separated by a ":". Supported
694 values of "WHEN" are the same as that of
695 --use-postprocessor, and "video" (default).
696 Implies --quiet. Implies --simulate unless
697 --no-simulate or later stages of WHEN are
698 used. This option can be used multiple
700 --print-to-file [WHEN:]TEMPLATE FILE
701 Append given template to the file. The
702 values of WHEN and TEMPLATE are same as
703 that of --print. FILE uses the same syntax
704 as the output template. This option can be
706 -j, --dump-json Quiet, but print JSON information for each
707 video. Simulate unless --no-simulate is
708 used. See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for a
709 description of available keys
710 -J, --dump-single-json Quiet, but print JSON information for each
711 url or infojson passed. Simulate unless
712 --no-simulate is used. If the URL refers to
713 a playlist, the whole playlist information
714 is dumped in a single line
715 --force-write-archive Force download archive entries to be
716 written as far as no errors occur, even if
717 -s or another simulation option is used
718 (Alias: --force-download-archive)
719 --newline Output progress bar as new lines
720 --no-progress Do not print progress bar
721 --progress Show progress bar, even if in quiet mode
722 --console-title Display progress in console titlebar
723 --progress-template [TYPES:]TEMPLATE
724 Template for progress outputs, optionally
725 prefixed with one of "download:" (default),
726 "download-title:" (the console title),
727 "postprocess:", or "postprocess-title:".
728 The video's fields are accessible under the
729 "info" key and the progress attributes are
730 accessible under "progress" key. E.g.:
731 --console-title --progress-template
732 "download-title:%(info.id)s-%(progress.eta)s"
733 -v, --verbose Print various debugging information
734 --dump-pages Print downloaded pages encoded using base64
735 to debug problems (very verbose)
736 --write-pages Write downloaded intermediary pages to
737 files in the current directory to debug
739 --print-traffic Display sent and read HTTP traffic
742 --encoding ENCODING Force the specified encoding (experimental)
743 --legacy-server-connect Explicitly allow HTTPS connection to
744 servers that do not support RFC
5746 secure
746 --no-check-certificates Suppress HTTPS certificate validation
747 --prefer-insecure Use an unencrypted connection to retrieve
748 information about the video (Currently
749 supported only for YouTube)
750 --add-header FIELD:VALUE Specify a custom HTTP header and its value,
751 separated by a colon ":". You can use this
752 option multiple times
753 --bidi-workaround Work around terminals that lack
754 bidirectional text support. Requires bidiv
755 or fribidi executable in PATH
756 --sleep-requests SECONDS Number of seconds to sleep between requests
757 during data extraction
758 --sleep-interval SECONDS Number of seconds to sleep before each
759 download. This is the minimum time to sleep
760 when used along with --max-sleep-interval
761 (Alias: --min-sleep-interval)
762 --max-sleep-interval SECONDS Maximum number of seconds to sleep. Can
763 only be used along with --min-sleep-interval
764 --sleep-subtitles SECONDS Number of seconds to sleep before each
767 ## Video Format Options:
768 -f, --format FORMAT Video format code, see "FORMAT SELECTION"
770 -S, --format-sort SORTORDER Sort the formats by the fields given, see
771 "Sorting Formats" for more details
772 --S-force, --format-sort-force Force user specified sort order to have
773 precedence over all fields, see "Sorting
774 Formats" for more details
775 --no-format-sort-force Some fields have precedence over the user
776 specified sort order (default), see
777 "Sorting Formats" for more details
778 --video-multistreams Allow multiple video streams to be merged
780 --no-video-multistreams Only one video stream is downloaded for
781 each output file (default)
782 --audio-multistreams Allow multiple audio streams to be merged
784 --no-audio-multistreams Only one audio stream is downloaded for
785 each output file (default)
786 --prefer-free-formats Prefer video formats with free containers
787 over non-free ones of same quality. Use
788 with "-S ext" to strictly prefer free
789 containers irrespective of quality
790 --no-prefer-free-formats Don't give any special preference to free
792 --check-formats Make sure formats are selected only from
793 those that are actually downloadable
794 --check-all-formats Check all formats for whether they are
795 actually downloadable
796 --no-check-formats Do not check that the formats are actually
798 -F, --list-formats List available formats of each video.
799 Simulate unless --no-simulate is used
800 --merge-output-format FORMAT If a merge is required (e.g.
801 bestvideo+bestaudio), output to given
802 container format. One of mkv, mp4, ogg,
803 webm, flv. Ignored if no merge is required
806 --write-subs Write subtitle file
807 --no-write-subs Do not write subtitle file (default)
808 --write-auto-subs Write automatically generated subtitle file
809 (Alias: --write-automatic-subs)
810 --no-write-auto-subs Do not write auto-generated subtitles
811 (default) (Alias: --no-write-automatic-subs)
812 --list-subs List available subtitles of each video.
813 Simulate unless --no-simulate is used
814 --sub-format FORMAT Subtitle format, accepts formats
815 preference, for example: "srt" or
817 --sub-langs LANGS Languages of the subtitles to download (can
818 be regex) or "all" separated by commas.
819 (Eg: --sub-langs "en.*,ja") You can prefix
820 the language code with a "-" to exempt it
821 from the requested languages. (Eg:
822 --sub-langs all,-live_chat) Use --list-subs
823 for a list of available language tags
825 ## Authentication Options:
826 -u, --username USERNAME Login with this account ID
827 -p, --password PASSWORD Account password. If this option is left
828 out, yt-dlp will ask interactively
829 -2, --twofactor TWOFACTOR Two-factor authentication code
830 -n, --netrc Use .netrc authentication data
831 --netrc-location PATH Location of .netrc authentication data;
832 either the path or its containing
833 directory. Defaults to ~/.netrc
834 --video-password PASSWORD Video password (vimeo, youku)
835 --ap-mso MSO Adobe Pass multiple-system operator (TV
836 provider) identifier, use --ap-list-mso for
837 a list of available MSOs
838 --ap-username USERNAME Multiple-system operator account login
839 --ap-password PASSWORD Multiple-system operator account password.
840 If this option is left out, yt-dlp will ask
842 --ap-list-mso List all supported multiple-system
844 --client-certificate CERTFILE Path to client certificate file in PEM
845 format. May include the private key
846 --client-certificate-key KEYFILE Path to private key file for client
848 --client-certificate-password PASSWORD
849 Password for client certificate private
850 key, if encrypted. If not provided and the
851 key is encrypted, yt-dlp will ask
854 ## Post-Processing Options:
855 -x, --extract-audio Convert video files to audio-only files
856 (requires ffmpeg and ffprobe)
857 --audio-format FORMAT Specify audio format to convert the audio
858 to when -x is used. Currently supported
859 formats are: best (default) or one of aac,
860 flac, mp3, m4a, opus, vorbis, wav, alac
861 --audio-quality QUALITY Specify ffmpeg audio quality to use when
862 converting the audio with -x. Insert a
863 value between
0 (best) and
10 (worst) for
864 VBR or a specific bitrate like
128K
866 --remux-video FORMAT Remux the video into another container if
867 necessary (currently supported: mp4, mkv,
868 flv, webm, mov, avi, mka, ogg, aac, flac,
869 mp3, m4a, opus, vorbis, wav, alac). If
870 target container does not support the
871 video/audio codec, remuxing will fail. You
872 can specify multiple rules; Eg.
873 "aac>m4a/mov>mp4/mkv" will remux aac to
874 m4a, mov to mp4 and anything else to mkv.
875 --recode-video FORMAT Re-encode the video into another format if
876 re-encoding is necessary. The syntax and
877 supported formats are the same as --remux-video
878 --postprocessor-args NAME:ARGS Give these arguments to the postprocessors.
879 Specify the postprocessor/executable name
880 and the arguments separated by a colon ":"
881 to give the argument to the specified
882 postprocessor/executable. Supported PP are:
883 Merger, ModifyChapters, SplitChapters,
884 ExtractAudio, VideoRemuxer, VideoConvertor,
885 Metadata, EmbedSubtitle, EmbedThumbnail,
886 SubtitlesConvertor, ThumbnailsConvertor,
887 FixupStretched, FixupM4a, FixupM3u8,
888 FixupTimestamp and FixupDuration. The
889 supported executables are: AtomicParsley,
890 FFmpeg and FFprobe. You can also specify
891 "PP+EXE:ARGS" to give the arguments to the
892 specified executable only when being used
893 by the specified postprocessor.
894 Additionally, for ffmpeg/ffprobe, "_i"/"_o"
895 can be appended to the prefix optionally
896 followed by a number to pass the argument
897 before the specified input/output file. Eg:
898 --ppa "Merger+ffmpeg_i1:-v quiet". You can
899 use this option multiple times to give
900 different arguments to different
901 postprocessors. (Alias: --ppa)
902 -k, --keep-video Keep the intermediate video file on disk
903 after post-processing
904 --no-keep-video Delete the intermediate video file after
905 post-processing (default)
906 --post-overwrites Overwrite post-processed files (default)
907 --no-post-overwrites Do not overwrite post-processed files
908 --embed-subs Embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4,
910 --no-embed-subs Do not embed subtitles (default)
911 --embed-thumbnail Embed thumbnail in the video as cover art
912 --no-embed-thumbnail Do not embed thumbnail (default)
913 --embed-metadata Embed metadata to the video file. Also
914 embeds chapters/infojson if present unless
915 --no-embed-chapters/--no-embed-info-json
916 are used (Alias: --add-metadata)
917 --no-embed-metadata Do not add metadata to file (default)
918 (Alias: --no-add-metadata)
919 --embed-chapters Add chapter markers to the video file
920 (Alias: --add-chapters)
921 --no-embed-chapters Do not add chapter markers (default)
922 (Alias: --no-add-chapters)
923 --embed-info-json Embed the infojson as an attachment to
925 --no-embed-info-json Do not embed the infojson as an attachment
927 --parse-metadata FROM:TO Parse additional metadata like title/artist
928 from other fields; see "MODIFYING METADATA"
930 --replace-in-metadata FIELDS REGEX REPLACE
931 Replace text in a metadata field using the
932 given regex. This option can be used
934 --xattrs Write metadata to the video file's xattrs
935 (using dublin core and xdg standards)
936 --concat-playlist POLICY Concatenate videos in a playlist. One of
937 "never", "always", or "multi_video"
938 (default; only when the videos form a
939 single show). All the video files must have
940 same codecs and number of streams to be
941 concatable. The "pl_video:" prefix can be
942 used with "--paths" and "--output" to set
943 the output filename for the concatenated
944 files. See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details
945 --fixup POLICY Automatically correct known faults of the
946 file. One of never (do nothing), warn (only
947 emit a warning), detect_or_warn (the
948 default; fix file if we can, warn
949 otherwise), force (try fixing even if file
951 --ffmpeg-location PATH Location of the ffmpeg binary; either the
952 path to the binary or its containing
954 --exec [WHEN:]CMD Execute a command, optionally prefixed with
955 when to execute it (after_move if
956 unspecified), separated by a ":". Supported
957 values of "WHEN" are the same as that of
958 --use-postprocessor. Same syntax as the
959 output template can be used to pass any
960 field as arguments to the command. After
961 download, an additional field "filepath"
962 that contains the final path of the
963 downloaded file is also available, and if
964 no fields are passed, %(filepath)q is
965 appended to the end of the command. This
966 option can be used multiple times
967 --no-exec Remove any previously defined --exec
968 --convert-subs FORMAT Convert the subtitles to another format
969 (currently supported: srt, vtt, ass, lrc)
970 (Alias: --convert-subtitles)
971 --convert-thumbnails FORMAT Convert the thumbnails to another format
972 (currently supported: jpg, png, webp)
973 --split-chapters Split video into multiple files based on
974 internal chapters. The "chapter:" prefix
975 can be used with "--paths" and "--output"
976 to set the output filename for the split
977 files. See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details
978 --no-split-chapters Do not split video based on chapters
980 --remove-chapters REGEX Remove chapters whose title matches the
981 given regular expression. Time ranges
982 prefixed by a "*" can also be used in place
983 of chapters to remove the specified range.
984 Eg: --remove-chapters "*
10:
15-
15:
00"
985 --remove-chapters "intro". This option can
986 be used multiple times
987 --no-remove-chapters Do not remove any chapters from the file
989 --force-keyframes-at-cuts Force keyframes around the chapters before
990 removing/splitting them. Requires a
991 re-encode and thus is very slow, but the
992 resulting video may have fewer artifacts
994 --no-force-keyframes-at-cuts Do not force keyframes around the chapters
995 when cutting/splitting (default)
996 --use-postprocessor NAME[:ARGS] The (case sensitive) name of plugin
997 postprocessors to be enabled, and
998 (optionally) arguments to be passed to it,
999 separated by a colon ":". ARGS are a
1000 semicolon ";" delimited list of NAME=VALUE.
1001 The "when" argument determines when the
1002 postprocessor is invoked. It can be one of
1003 "pre_process" (after video extraction),
1004 "after_filter" (after video passes filter),
1005 "before_dl" (before each video download),
1006 "post_process" (after each video download;
1007 default), "after_move" (after moving video
1008 file to it's final locations),
1009 "after_video" (after downloading and
1010 processing all formats of a video), or
1011 "playlist" (at end of playlist). This
1012 option can be used multiple times to add
1013 different postprocessors
1015 ## SponsorBlock Options:
1016 Make chapter entries for, or remove various segments (sponsor,
1017 introductions, etc.) from downloaded YouTube videos using the
1018 [SponsorBlock API](https://sponsor.ajay.app)
1020 --sponsorblock-mark CATS SponsorBlock categories to create chapters
1021 for, separated by commas. Available
1022 categories are all, default(=all), sponsor,
1023 intro, outro, selfpromo, preview, filler,
1024 interaction, music_offtopic, poi_highlight.
1025 You can prefix the category with a "-" to
1026 exempt it. See [
1] for description of the
1027 categories. Eg: --sponsorblock-mark all,-preview
1028 [
1] https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/w/Segment_Categories
1029 --sponsorblock-remove CATS SponsorBlock categories to be removed from
1030 the video file, separated by commas. If a
1031 category is present in both mark and
1032 remove, remove takes precedence. The syntax
1033 and available categories are the same as
1034 for --sponsorblock-mark except that
1035 "default" refers to "all,-filler" and
1036 poi_highlight is not available
1037 --sponsorblock-chapter-title TEMPLATE
1038 The title template for SponsorBlock
1039 chapters created by --sponsorblock-mark.
1040 The same syntax as the output template is
1041 used, but the only available fields are
1042 start_time, end_time, category, categories,
1043 name, category_names. Defaults to
1044 "[SponsorBlock]: %(category_names)l"
1045 --no-sponsorblock Disable both --sponsorblock-mark and
1046 --sponsorblock-remove
1047 --sponsorblock-api URL SponsorBlock API location, defaults to
1048 https://sponsor.ajay.app
1050 ## Extractor Options:
1051 --extractor-retries RETRIES Number of retries for known extractor
1052 errors (default is
3), or "infinite"
1053 --allow-dynamic-mpd Process dynamic DASH manifests (default)
1054 (Alias: --no-ignore-dynamic-mpd)
1055 --ignore-dynamic-mpd Do not process dynamic DASH manifests
1056 (Alias: --no-allow-dynamic-mpd)
1057 --hls-split-discontinuity Split HLS playlists to different formats at
1058 discontinuities such as ad breaks
1059 --no-hls-split-discontinuity Do not split HLS playlists to different
1060 formats at discontinuities such as ad
1062 --extractor-args KEY:ARGS Pass these arguments to the extractor. See
1063 "EXTRACTOR ARGUMENTS" for details. You can
1064 use this option multiple times to give
1065 arguments for different extractors
1069 You can configure yt-dlp by placing any supported command line option to a configuration file. The configuration is loaded from the following locations:
1071 1. **Main Configuration**: The file given by
`--config-location`
1072 1. **Portable Configuration**:
`yt-dlp.conf` in the same directory as the bundled binary. If you are running from source-code (
`<root dir>/yt_dlp/__main__.py`), the root directory is used instead.
1073 1. **Home Configuration**:
`yt-dlp.conf` in the home path given by
`-P`, or in the current directory if no such path is given
1074 1. **User Configuration**:
1075 * `%XDG_CONFIG_HOME%/yt-dlp/config` (recommended on Linux/macOS)
1076 * `%XDG_CONFIG_HOME%/yt-dlp.conf`
1077 * `%APPDATA%/yt-dlp/config` (recommended on Windows)
1078 * `%APPDATA%/yt-dlp/config.txt`
1080 * `~/yt-dlp.conf.txt`
1082 `%XDG_CONFIG_HOME%` defaults to
`~/.config` if undefined. On windows,
`%APPDATA%` generally points to
`C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming` and
`~` points to
`%HOME%` if present,
`%USERPROFILE%` (generally
`C:\Users\<user name>`), or
`%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%`
1084 1. **System Configuration**:
`/etc/yt-dlp.conf`
1086 For example, with the following configuration file yt-dlp will always extract the audio, not copy the mtime, use a proxy and save all videos under
`YouTube` directory in your home directory:
1088 # Lines starting with # are comments
1090 # Always extract audio
1093 # Do not copy the mtime
1097 --proxy 127.0.0.1:3128
1099 # Save all videos under YouTube directory in your home directory
1100 -o ~/YouTube/%(title)s.%(ext)s
1103 Note that options in configuration file are just the same options aka switches used in regular command line calls; thus there **must be no whitespace** after
`-` or
`--`, e.g.
`-o` or
`--proxy` but not
`- o` or
`-- proxy`.
1105 You can use
`--ignore-config` if you want to disable all configuration files for a particular yt-dlp run. If
`--ignore-config` is found inside any configuration file, no further configuration will be loaded. For example, having the option in the portable configuration file prevents loading of home, user, and system configurations. Additionally, (for backward compatibility) if
`--ignore-config` is found inside the system configuration file, the user configuration is not loaded.
1107 ### Authentication with `.netrc` file
1109 You may also want to configure automatic credentials storage for extractors that support authentication (by providing login and password with
`--username` and
`--password`) in order not to pass credentials as command line arguments on every yt-dlp execution and prevent tracking plain text passwords in the shell command history. You can achieve this using a
[`.netrc` file](https://stackoverflow.com/tags/.netrc/info) on a per extractor basis. For that you will need to create a
`.netrc` file in
`--netrc-location` and restrict permissions to read/write by only you:
1112 chmod a-rwx,u+rw $HOME/.netrc
1114 After that you can add credentials for an extractor in the following format, where *extractor* is the name of the extractor in lowercase:
1116 machine <extractor> login <username> password <password>
1120 machine youtube login myaccount@gmail.com password my_youtube_password
1121 machine twitch login my_twitch_account_name password my_twitch_password
1123 To activate authentication with the
`.netrc` file you should pass
`--netrc` to yt-dlp or place it in the [configuration file](#configuration).
1125 The default location of the .netrc file is
`$HOME` (
`~`) in UNIX. On Windows, it is
`%HOME%` if present,
`%USERPROFILE%` (generally
`C:\Users\<user name>`) or
`%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%`
1129 The
`-o` option is used to indicate a template for the output file names while
`-P` option is used to specify the path each type of file should be saved to.
1131 <!-- MANPAGE: BEGIN EXCLUDED SECTION -->
1132 **tl;dr:** [navigate me to examples](#output-template-examples).
1133 <!-- MANPAGE: END EXCLUDED SECTION -->
1135 The simplest usage of
`-o` is not to set any template arguments when downloading a single file, like in
`yt-dlp -o funny_video.flv "https://some/video"` (hard-coding file extension like this is _not_ recommended and could break some post-processing).
1137 It may however also contain special sequences that will be replaced when downloading each video. The special sequences may be formatted according to
[Python string formatting operations](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#printf-style-string-formatting). For example,
`%(NAME)s` or
`%(NAME)05d`. To clarify, that is a percent symbol followed by a name in parentheses, followed by formatting operations.
1139 The field names themselves (the part inside the parenthesis) can also have some special formatting:
1141 1. **Object traversal**: The dictionaries and lists available in metadata can be traversed by using a
`.` (dot) separator. You can also do python slicing using
`:`. Eg:
`%(tags.0)s`,
`%(subtitles.en.-1.ext)s`,
`%(id.3:7:-1)s`,
`%(formats.:.format_id)s`.
`%()s` refers to the entire infodict. Note that all the fields that become available using this method are not listed below. Use
`-j` to see such fields
1143 1. **Addition**: Addition and subtraction of numeric fields can be done using
`+` and
`-` respectively. Eg:
`%(playlist_index+10)03d`,
`%(n_entries+1-playlist_index)d`
1145 1. **Date/time Formatting**: Date/time fields can be formatted according to
[strftime formatting](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-format-codes) by specifying it separated from the field name using a
`>`. Eg:
`%(duration>%H-%M-%S)s`,
`%(upload_date>%Y-%m-%d)s`,
`%(epoch-3600>%H-%M-%S)s`
1147 1. **Alternatives**: Alternate fields can be specified separated with a
`,`. Eg:
`%(release_date>%Y,upload_date>%Y|Unknown)s`
1149 1. **Replacement**: A replacement value can specified using a
`&` separator. If the field is *not* empty, this replacement value will be used instead of the actual field content. This is done after alternate fields are considered; thus the replacement is used if *any* of the alternative fields is *not* empty.
1151 1. **Default**: A literal default value can be specified for when the field is empty using a
`|` separator. This overrides
`--output-na-template`. Eg:
`%(uploader|Unknown)s`
1153 1. **More Conversions**: In addition to the normal format types
`diouxXeEfFgGcrs`,
`B`,
`j`,
`l`,
`q`,
`D`,
`S` can be used for converting to **B**ytes, **j**son (flag
`#` for pretty-printing), a comma separated **l**ist (flag
`#` for
`\n` newline-separated), a string **q**uoted for the terminal (flag
`#` to split a list into different arguments), to add **D**ecimal suffixes (Eg:
10M) (flag
`#` to use
1024 as factor), and to **S**anitize as filename (flag
`#` for restricted), respectively
1155 1. **Unicode normalization**: The format type
`U` can be used for NFC
[unicode normalization](https://docs.python.org/3/library/unicodedata.html#unicodedata.normalize). The alternate form flag (
`#`) changes the normalization to NFD and the conversion flag
`+` can be used for NFKC/NFKD compatibility equivalence normalization. Eg:
`%(title)+.100U` is NFKC
1157 To summarize, the general syntax for a field is:
1159 %(name[.keys][addition][>strf][,alternate][&replacement][|default])[flags][width][.precision][length]type
1162 Additionally, you can set different output templates for the various metadata files separately from the general output template by specifying the type of file followed by the template separated by a colon
`:`. The different file types supported are
`subtitle`,
`thumbnail`,
`description`,
`annotation` (deprecated),
`infojson`,
`link`,
`pl_thumbnail`,
`pl_description`,
`pl_infojson`,
`chapter`,
`pl_video`. For example,
`-o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" -o "thumbnail:%(title)s\%(title)s.%(ext)s"` will put the thumbnails in a folder with the same name as the video. If any of the templates is empty, that type of file will not be written. Eg:
`--write-thumbnail -o "thumbnail:"` will write thumbnails only for playlists and not for video.
1164 The available fields are:
1166 - `id` (string): Video identifier
1167 - `title` (string): Video title
1168 - `fulltitle` (string): Video title ignoring live timestamp and generic title
1169 - `url` (string): Video URL
1170 - `ext` (string): Video filename extension
1171 - `alt_title` (string): A secondary title of the video
1172 - `description` (string): The description of the video
1173 - `display_id` (string): An alternative identifier for the video
1174 - `uploader` (string): Full name of the video uploader
1175 - `license` (string): License name the video is licensed under
1176 - `creator` (string): The creator of the video
1177 - `timestamp` (numeric): UNIX timestamp of the moment the video became available
1178 - `upload_date` (string): Video upload date in UTC (YYYYMMDD)
1179 - `release_timestamp` (numeric): UNIX timestamp of the moment the video was released
1180 - `release_date` (string): The date (YYYYMMDD) when the video was released in UTC
1181 - `modified_timestamp` (numeric): UNIX timestamp of the moment the video was last modified
1182 - `modified_date` (string): The date (YYYYMMDD) when the video was last modified in UTC
1183 - `uploader_id` (string): Nickname or id of the video uploader
1184 - `channel` (string): Full name of the channel the video is uploaded on
1185 - `channel_id` (string): Id of the channel
1186 - `channel_follower_count` (numeric): Number of followers of the channel
1187 - `location` (string): Physical location where the video was filmed
1188 - `duration` (numeric): Length of the video in seconds
1189 - `duration_string` (string): Length of the video (HH:mm:ss)
1190 - `view_count` (numeric): How many users have watched the video on the platform
1191 - `like_count` (numeric): Number of positive ratings of the video
1192 - `dislike_count` (numeric): Number of negative ratings of the video
1193 - `repost_count` (numeric): Number of reposts of the video
1194 - `average_rating` (numeric): Average rating give by users, the scale used depends on the webpage
1195 - `comment_count` (numeric): Number of comments on the video (For some extractors, comments are only downloaded at the end, and so this field cannot be used)
1196 - `age_limit` (numeric): Age restriction for the video (years)
1197 - `live_status` (string): One of "is_live", "was_live", "is_upcoming", "not_live"
1198 - `is_live` (boolean): Whether this video is a live stream or a fixed-length video
1199 - `was_live` (boolean): Whether this video was originally a live stream
1200 - `playable_in_embed` (string): Whether this video is allowed to play in embedded players on other sites
1201 - `availability` (string): Whether the video is "private", "premium_only", "subscriber_only", "needs_auth", "unlisted" or "public"
1202 - `start_time` (numeric): Time in seconds where the reproduction should start, as specified in the URL
1203 - `end_time` (numeric): Time in seconds where the reproduction should end, as specified in the URL
1204 - `format` (string): A human-readable description of the format
1205 - `format_id` (string): Format code specified by
`--format`
1206 - `format_note` (string): Additional info about the format
1207 - `width` (numeric): Width of the video
1208 - `height` (numeric): Height of the video
1209 - `resolution` (string): Textual description of width and height
1210 - `tbr` (numeric): Average bitrate of audio and video in KBit/s
1211 - `abr` (numeric): Average audio bitrate in KBit/s
1212 - `acodec` (string): Name of the audio codec in use
1213 - `asr` (numeric): Audio sampling rate in Hertz
1214 - `vbr` (numeric): Average video bitrate in KBit/s
1215 - `fps` (numeric): Frame rate
1216 - `dynamic_range` (string): The dynamic range of the video
1217 - `vcodec` (string): Name of the video codec in use
1218 - `container` (string): Name of the container format
1219 - `filesize` (numeric): The number of bytes, if known in advance
1220 - `filesize_approx` (numeric): An estimate for the number of bytes
1221 - `protocol` (string): The protocol that will be used for the actual download
1222 - `extractor` (string): Name of the extractor
1223 - `extractor_key` (string): Key name of the extractor
1224 - `epoch` (numeric): Unix epoch of when the information extraction was completed
1225 - `autonumber` (numeric): Number that will be increased with each download, starting at
`--autonumber-start`
1226 - `video_autonumber` (numeric): Number that will be increased with each video
1227 - `n_entries` (numeric): Total number of extracted items in the playlist
1228 - `playlist_id` (string): Identifier of the playlist that contains the video
1229 - `playlist_title` (string): Name of the playlist that contains the video
1230 - `playlist` (string):
`playlist_id` or
`playlist_title`
1231 - `playlist_count` (numeric): Total number of items in the playlist. May not be known if entire playlist is not extracted
1232 - `playlist_index` (numeric): Index of the video in the playlist padded with leading zeros according the final index
1233 - `playlist_autonumber` (numeric): Position of the video in the playlist download queue padded with leading zeros according to the total length of the playlist
1234 - `playlist_uploader` (string): Full name of the playlist uploader
1235 - `playlist_uploader_id` (string): Nickname or id of the playlist uploader
1236 - `webpage_url` (string): A URL to the video webpage which if given to yt-dlp should allow to get the same result again
1237 - `webpage_url_basename` (string): The basename of the webpage URL
1238 - `webpage_url_domain` (string): The domain of the webpage URL
1239 - `original_url` (string): The URL given by the user (or same as
`webpage_url` for playlist entries)
1241 Available for the video that belongs to some logical chapter or section:
1243 - `chapter` (string): Name or title of the chapter the video belongs to
1244 - `chapter_number` (numeric): Number of the chapter the video belongs to
1245 - `chapter_id` (string): Id of the chapter the video belongs to
1247 Available for the video that is an episode of some series or programme:
1249 - `series` (string): Title of the series or programme the video episode belongs to
1250 - `season` (string): Title of the season the video episode belongs to
1251 - `season_number` (numeric): Number of the season the video episode belongs to
1252 - `season_id` (string): Id of the season the video episode belongs to
1253 - `episode` (string): Title of the video episode
1254 - `episode_number` (numeric): Number of the video episode within a season
1255 - `episode_id` (string): Id of the video episode
1257 Available for the media that is a track or a part of a music album:
1259 - `track` (string): Title of the track
1260 - `track_number` (numeric): Number of the track within an album or a disc
1261 - `track_id` (string): Id of the track
1262 - `artist` (string): Artist(s) of the track
1263 - `genre` (string): Genre(s) of the track
1264 - `album` (string): Title of the album the track belongs to
1265 - `album_type` (string): Type of the album
1266 - `album_artist` (string): List of all artists appeared on the album
1267 - `disc_number` (numeric): Number of the disc or other physical medium the track belongs to
1268 - `release_year` (numeric): Year (YYYY) when the album was released
1270 Available for
`chapter:` prefix when using
`--split-chapters` for videos with internal chapters:
1272 - `section_title` (string): Title of the chapter
1273 - `section_number` (numeric): Number of the chapter within the file
1274 - `section_start` (numeric): Start time of the chapter in seconds
1275 - `section_end` (numeric): End time of the chapter in seconds
1277 Available only when used in
`--print`:
1279 - `urls` (string): The URLs of all requested formats, one in each line
1280 - `filename` (string): Name of the video file. Note that the actual filename may be different due to post-processing. Use
`--exec echo` to get the name after all postprocessing is complete
1281 - `formats_table` (table): The video format table as printed by
`--list-formats`
1282 - `thumbnails_table` (table): The thumbnail format table as printed by
`--list-thumbnails`
1283 - `subtitles_table` (table): The subtitle format table as printed by
`--list-subs`
1284 - `automatic_captions_table` (table): The automatic subtitle format table as printed by
`--list-subs`
1287 Available only in
`--sponsorblock-chapter-title`:
1289 - `start_time` (numeric): Start time of the chapter in seconds
1290 - `end_time` (numeric): End time of the chapter in seconds
1291 - `categories` (list): The SponsorBlock categories the chapter belongs to
1292 - `category` (string): The smallest SponsorBlock category the chapter belongs to
1293 - `category_names` (list): Friendly names of the categories
1294 - `name` (string): Friendly name of the smallest category
1296 Each aforementioned sequence when referenced in an output template will be replaced by the actual value corresponding to the sequence name. For example for
`-o %(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s` and an mp4 video with title
`yt-dlp test video` and id
`BaW_jenozKc`, this will result in a
`yt-dlp test video-BaW_jenozKc.mp4` file created in the current directory.
1298 Note that some of the sequences are not guaranteed to be present since they depend on the metadata obtained by a particular extractor. Such sequences will be replaced with placeholder value provided with
`--output-na-placeholder` (
`NA` by default).
1300 **Tip**: Look at the
`-j` output to identify which fields are available for the particular URL
1302 For numeric sequences you can use
[numeric related formatting](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#printf-style-string-formatting), for example,
`%(view_count)05d` will result in a string with view count padded with zeros up to
5 characters, like in
`00042`.
1304 Output templates can also contain arbitrary hierarchical path, e.g.
`-o "%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"` which will result in downloading each video in a directory corresponding to this path template. Any missing directory will be automatically created for you.
1306 To use percent literals in an output template use
`%%`. To output to stdout use
`-o -`.
1308 The current default template is
`%(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s`.
1310 In some cases, you don't want special characters such as 中, spaces, or &, such as when transferring the downloaded filename to a Windows system or the filename through an
8bit-unsafe channel. In these cases, add the
`--restrict-filenames` flag to get a shorter title.
1312 <!-- MANPAGE: BEGIN EXCLUDED SECTION -->
1313 #### Output template and Windows batch files
1315 If you are using an output template inside a Windows batch file then you must escape plain percent characters (
`%`) by doubling, so that
`-o "%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"` should become
`-o "%%(title)s-%%(id)s.%%(ext)s"`. However you should not touch
`%`'s that are not plain characters, e.g. environment variables for expansion should stay intact:
`-o "C:\%HOMEPATH%\Desktop\%%(title)s.%%(ext)s"`.
1316 <!-- MANPAGE: END EXCLUDED SECTION -->
1318 #### Output template examples
1321 $ yt-dlp --get-filename -o "test video.%(ext)s" BaW_jenozKc
1322 test video.webm # Literal name with correct extension
1324 $ yt-dlp --get-filename -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" BaW_jenozKc
1325 youtube-dl test video ''_ä↭𝕐.webm # All kinds of weird characters
1327 $ yt-dlp --get-filename -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" BaW_jenozKc --restrict-filenames
1328 youtube-dl_test_video_.webm # Restricted file name
1330 # Download YouTube playlist videos in separate directory indexed by video order in a playlist
1331 $ yt-dlp -o "%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re"
1333 # Download YouTube playlist videos in separate directories according to their uploaded year
1334 $ yt-dlp -o "%(upload_date>%Y)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re"
1336 # Prefix playlist index with " - " separator, but only if it is available
1337 $ yt-dlp -o '%(playlist_index|)s%(playlist_index& - |)s%(title)s.%(ext)s' BaW_jenozKc "https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLinuxFoundation/playlists"
1339 # Download all playlists of YouTube channel/user keeping each playlist in separate directory:
1340 $ yt-dlp -o "%(uploader)s/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLinuxFoundation/playlists"
1342 # Download Udemy course keeping each chapter in separate directory under MyVideos directory in your home
1343 $ yt-dlp -u user -p password -P "~/MyVideos" -o "%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.udemy.com/java-tutorial"
1345 # Download entire series season keeping each series and each season in separate directory under C:/MyVideos
1346 $ yt-dlp -P "C:/MyVideos" -o "%(series)s/%(season_number)s - %(season)s/%(episode_number)s - %(episode)s.%(ext)s" "https://videomore.ru/kino_v_detalayah/5_sezon/367617"
1348 # Download video as "C:\MyVideos\uploader\title.ext", subtitles as "C:\MyVideos\subs\uploader\title.ext"
1349 # and put all temporary files in "C:\MyVideos\tmp"
1350 $ yt-dlp -P "C:/MyVideos" -P "temp:tmp" -P "subtitle:subs" -o "%(uploader)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" BaW_jenoz --write-subs
1352 # Download video as "C:\MyVideos\uploader\title.ext" and subtitles as "C:\MyVideos\uploader\subs\title.ext"
1353 $ yt-dlp -P "C:/MyVideos" -o "%(uploader)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" -o "subtitle:%(uploader)s/subs/%(title)s.%(ext)s" BaW_jenozKc --write-subs
1355 # Stream the video being downloaded to stdout
1356 $ yt-dlp -o - BaW_jenozKc
1361 By default, yt-dlp tries to download the best available quality if you **don't** pass any options.
1362 This is generally equivalent to using
`-f bestvideo*+bestaudio/best`. However, if multiple audiostreams is enabled (
`--audio-multistreams`), the default format changes to
`-f bestvideo+bestaudio/best`. Similarly, if ffmpeg is unavailable, or if you use yt-dlp to stream to
`stdout` (
`-o -`), the default becomes
`-f best/bestvideo+bestaudio`.
1364 **Deprecation warning**: Latest versions of yt-dlp can stream multiple formats to the stdout simultaneously using ffmpeg. So, in future versions, the default for this will be set to
`-f bv*+ba/b` similar to normal downloads. If you want to preserve the
`-f b/bv+ba` setting, it is recommended to explicitly specify it in the configuration options.
1366 The general syntax for format selection is
`-f FORMAT` (or
`--format FORMAT`) where
`FORMAT` is a *selector expression*, i.e. an expression that describes format or formats you would like to download.
1368 <!-- MANPAGE: BEGIN EXCLUDED SECTION -->
1369 **tl;dr:** [navigate me to examples](#format-selection-examples).
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1372 The simplest case is requesting a specific format, for example with
`-f 22` you can download the format with format code equal to
22. You can get the list of available format codes for particular video using
`--list-formats` or
`-F`. Note that these format codes are extractor specific.
1374 You can also use a file extension (currently
`3gp`,
`aac`,
`flv`,
`m4a`,
`mp3`,
`mp4`,
`ogg`,
`wav`,
`webm` are supported) to download the best quality format of a particular file extension served as a single file, e.g.
`-f webm` will download the best quality format with the
`webm` extension served as a single file.
1376 You can use
`-f -` to interactively provide the format selector *for each video*
1378 You can also use special names to select particular edge case formats:
1380 - `all`: Select **all formats** separately
1381 - `mergeall`: Select and **merge all formats** (Must be used with
`--audio-multistreams`,
`--video-multistreams` or both)
1382 - `b*`,
`best*`: Select the best quality format that **contains either** a video or an audio
1383 - `b`,
`best`: Select the best quality format that **contains both** video and audio. Equivalent to
`best*[vcodec!=none][acodec!=none]`
1384 - `bv`,
`bestvideo`: Select the best quality **video-only** format. Equivalent to
`best*[acodec=none]`
1385 - `bv*`,
`bestvideo*`: Select the best quality format that **contains video**. It may also contain audio. Equivalent to
`best*[vcodec!=none]`
1386 - `ba`,
`bestaudio`: Select the best quality **audio-only** format. Equivalent to
`best*[vcodec=none]`
1387 - `ba*`,
`bestaudio*`: Select the best quality format that **contains audio**. It may also contain video. Equivalent to
`best*[acodec!=none]` ([Do not use!](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/979#issuecomment-919629354))
1388 - `w*
`, `worst*
`: Select the worst quality format that contains either a video or an audio
1389 - `w
`, `worst
`: Select the worst quality format that contains both video and audio. Equivalent to `worst*[vcodec!=none][acodec!=none]
`
1390 - `wv
`, `worstvideo
`: Select the worst quality video-only format. Equivalent to `worst*[acodec=none]
`
1391 - `wv*
`, `worstvideo*
`: Select the worst quality format that contains video. It may also contain audio. Equivalent to `worst*[vcodec!=none]
`
1392 - `wa
`, `worstaudio
`: Select the worst quality audio-only format. Equivalent to `worst*[vcodec=none]
`
1393 - `wa*
`, `worstaudio*
`: Select the worst quality format that contains audio. It may also contain video. Equivalent to `worst*[acodec!=none]
`
1395 For example, to download the worst quality video-only format you can use `-f worstvideo
`. It is however recommended not to use `worst
` and related options. When your format selector is `worst
`, the format which is worst in all respects is selected. Most of the time, what you actually want is the video with the smallest filesize instead. So it is generally better to use `-S +size
` or more rigorously, `-S +size,+br,+res,+fps
` instead of `-f worst
`. See [sorting formats](#sorting-formats) for more details.
1397 You can select the n'th best format of a type by using `best<type>.<n>
`. For example, `best
.2` will select the 2nd best combined format. Similarly, `bv*
.3` will select the 3rd best format that contains a video stream.
1399 If you want to download multiple videos and they don't have the same formats available, you can specify the order of preference using slashes. Note that formats on the left hand side are preferred, for example `-f
22/
17/
18` will download format 22 if it's available, otherwise it will download format 17 if it's available, otherwise it will download format 18 if it's available, otherwise it will complain that no suitable formats are available for download.
1401 If you want to download several formats of the same video use a comma as a separator, e.g. `-f
22,
17,
18` will download all these three formats, of course if they are available. Or a more sophisticated example combined with the precedence feature: `-f
136/
137/mp4/bestvideo,
140/m4a/bestaudio
`.
1403 You can merge the video and audio of multiple formats into a single file using `-f <format1>+<format2>+...
` (requires ffmpeg installed), for example `-f bestvideo+bestaudio
` will download the best video-only format, the best audio-only format and mux them together with ffmpeg.
1405 **Deprecation warning**: Since the *below* described behavior is complex and counter-intuitive, this will be removed and multistreams will be enabled by default in the future. A new operator will be instead added to limit formats to single audio/video
1407 Unless `--video-multistreams
` is used, all formats with a video stream except the first one are ignored. Similarly, unless `--audio-multistreams
` is used, all formats with an audio stream except the first one are ignored. For example, `-f bestvideo+best+bestaudio --video-multistreams --audio-multistreams
` will download and merge all 3 given formats. The resulting file will have 2 video streams and 2 audio streams. But `-f bestvideo+best+bestaudio --no-video-multistreams
` will download and merge only `bestvideo
` and `bestaudio
`. `best
` is ignored since another format containing a video stream (`bestvideo
`) has already been selected. The order of the formats is therefore important. `-f best+bestaudio --no-audio-multistreams
` will download and merge both formats while `-f bestaudio+best --no-audio-multistreams
` will ignore `best
` and download only `bestaudio
`.
1409 ## Filtering Formats
1411 You can also filter the video formats by putting a condition in brackets, as in `-f "best[height=
720]"
` (or `-f "[filesize>
10M]"
`).
1413 The following numeric meta fields can be used with comparisons `<
`, `<=
`, `>
`, `>=
`, `=
` (equals), `!=
` (not equals):
1415 - `filesize
`: The number of bytes, if known in advance
1416 - `width
`: Width of the video, if known
1417 - `height
`: Height of the video, if known
1418 - `tbr
`: Average bitrate of audio and video in KBit/s
1419 - `abr
`: Average audio bitrate in KBit/s
1420 - `vbr
`: Average video bitrate in KBit/s
1421 - `asr
`: Audio sampling rate in Hertz
1424 Also filtering work for comparisons `=
` (equals), `^=
` (starts with), `$=
` (ends with), `*=
` (contains), `~=
` (matches regex) and following string meta fields:
1426 - `ext
`: File extension
1427 - `acodec
`: Name of the audio codec in use
1428 - `vcodec
`: Name of the video codec in use
1429 - `container
`: Name of the container format
1430 - `protocol
`: The protocol that will be used for the actual download, lower-case (`http
`, `https
`, `rtsp
`, `rtmp
`, `rtmpe
`, `mms
`, `f4m
`, `ism
`, `http_dash_segments
`, `m3u8
`, or `m3u8_native
`)
1431 - `format_id
`: A short description of the format
1432 - `language
`: Language code
1434 Any string comparison may be prefixed with negation `!
` in order to produce an opposite comparison, e.g. `!*=
` (does not contain). The comparand of a string comparison needs to be quoted with either double or single quotes if it contains spaces or special characters other than `._-
`.
1436 Note that none of the aforementioned meta fields are guaranteed to be present since this solely depends on the metadata obtained by particular extractor, i.e. the metadata offered by the website. Any other field made available by the extractor can also be used for filtering.
1438 Formats for which the value is not known are excluded unless you put a question mark (`?
`) after the operator. You can combine format filters, so `-f "[height<=?
720][tbr>
500]"
` selects up to 720p videos (or videos where the height is not known) with a bitrate of at least 500 KBit/s. You can also use the filters with `all
` to download all formats that satisfy the filter. For example, `-f "all[vcodec=none]"
` selects all audio-only formats.
1440 Format selectors can also be grouped using parentheses, for example if you want to download the best pre-merged mp4 and webm formats with a height lower than 480 you can use `-f "(mp4,webm)[height<
480]"
`.
1444 You can change the criteria for being considered the `best
` by using `-S
` (`--format-sort
`). The general format for this is `--format-sort field1,field2...
`.
1446 The available fields are:
1448 - `hasvid
`: Gives priority to formats that has a video stream
1449 - `hasaud
`: Gives priority to formats that has a audio stream
1450 - `ie_pref
`: The format preference
1451 - `lang
`: The language preference
1452 - `quality
`: The quality of the format
1453 - `source
`: The preference of the source
1454 - `proto
`: Protocol used for download (`https
`/`ftps
` > `http
`/`ftp
` > `m3u8_native
`/`m3u8
` > `http_dash_segments
`> `websocket_frag
` > `mms
`/`rtsp
` > `f4f
`/`f4m
`)
1455 - `vcodec
`: Video Codec (`av01
` > `vp9.2
` > `vp9
` > `h265
` > `h264
` > `vp8
` > `h263
` > `theora
` > other)
1456 - `acodec
`: Audio Codec (`flac
`/`alac
` > `wav
`/`aiff
` > `opus
` > `vorbis
` > `aac
` > `mp4a
` > `mp3
` > `eac3
` > `ac3
` > `dts
` > other)
1457 - `codec
`: Equivalent to `vcodec,acodec
`
1458 - `vext
`: Video Extension (`mp4
` > `webm
` > `flv
` > other). If `--prefer-free-formats
` is used, `webm
` is preferred.
1459 - `aext
`: Audio Extension (`m4a
` > `aac
` > `mp3
` > `ogg
` > `opus
` > `webm
` > other). If `--prefer-free-formats
` is used, the order changes to `opus
` > `ogg
` > `webm
` > `m4a
` > `mp3
` > `aac
`.
1460 - `ext
`: Equivalent to `vext,aext
`
1461 - `filesize
`: Exact filesize, if known in advance
1462 - `fs_approx
`: Approximate filesize calculated from the manifests
1463 - `size
`: Exact filesize if available, otherwise approximate filesize
1464 - `height
`: Height of video
1465 - `width
`: Width of video
1466 - `res
`: Video resolution, calculated as the smallest dimension.
1467 - `fps
`: Framerate of video
1468 - `hdr
`: The dynamic range of the video (`DV
` > `HDR12
` > `HDR10+
` > `HDR10
` > `HLG
` > `SDR
`)
1469 - `tbr
`: Total average bitrate in KBit/s
1470 - `vbr
`: Average video bitrate in KBit/s
1471 - `abr
`: Average audio bitrate in KBit/s
1472 - `br
`: Equivalent to using `tbr,vbr,abr
`
1473 - `asr
`: Audio sample rate in Hz
1475 **Deprecation warning**: Many of these fields have (currently undocumented) aliases, that may be removed in a future version. It is recommended to use only the documented field names.
1477 All fields, unless specified otherwise, are sorted in descending order. To reverse this, prefix the field with a `+
`. Eg: `+res
` prefers format with the smallest resolution. Additionally, you can suffix a preferred value for the fields, separated by a `:
`. Eg: `res:
720` prefers larger videos, but no larger than 720p and the smallest video if there are no videos less than 720p. For `codec
` and `ext
`, you can provide two preferred values, the first for video and the second for audio. Eg: `+codec:avc:m4a
` (equivalent to `+vcodec:avc,+acodec:m4a
`) sets the video codec preference to `h264
` > `h265
` > `vp9
` > `vp9.2
` > `av01
` > `vp8
` > `h263
` > `theora
` and audio codec preference to `mp4a
` > `aac
` > `vorbis
` > `opus
` > `mp3
` > `ac3
` > `dts
`. You can also make the sorting prefer the nearest values to the provided by using `~
` as the delimiter. Eg: `filesize~
1G
` prefers the format with filesize closest to 1 GiB.
1479 The fields `hasvid
` and `ie_pref
` are always given highest priority in sorting, irrespective of the user-defined order. This behaviour can be changed by using `--format-sort-force
`. Apart from these, the default order used is: `lang,quality,res,fps,hdr:
12,codec:vp9.2,size,br,asr,proto,ext,hasaud,source,id
`. The extractors may override this default order, but they cannot override the user-provided order.
1481 Note that the default has `codec:vp9.2
`; i.e. `av1
` is not preferred. Similarly, the default for hdr is `hdr:
12`; i.e. dolby vision is not preferred. These choices are made since DV and AV1 formats are not yet fully compatible with most devices. This may be changed in the future as more devices become capable of smoothly playing back these formats.
1483 If your format selector is `worst
`, the last item is selected after sorting. This means it will select the format that is worst in all respects. Most of the time, what you actually want is the video with the smallest filesize instead. So it is generally better to use `-f best -S +size,+br,+res,+fps
`.
1485 **Tip**: You can use the `-v -F
` to see how the formats have been sorted (worst to best).
1487 ## Format Selection examples
1490 # Download and merge the best video-only format and the best audio-only format,
1491 # or download the best combined format if video-only format is not available
1492 $ yt-dlp -f "bv+ba/b"
1494 # Download best format that contains video,
1495 # and if it doesn't already have an audio stream, merge it with best audio-only format
1496 $ yt-dlp -f "bv*+ba/b"
1501 # Download the best video-only format and the best audio-only format without merging them
1502 # For this case, an output template should be used since
1503 # by default, bestvideo and bestaudio will have the same file name.
1504 $ yt-dlp -f "bv,ba" -o "%(title)s.f%(format_id)s.%(ext)s"
1506 # Download and merge the best format that has a video stream,
1507 # and all audio-only formats into one file
1508 $ yt-dlp -f "bv*+mergeall[vcodec=none]" --audio-multistreams
1510 # Download and merge the best format that has a video stream,
1511 # and the best 2 audio-only formats into one file
1512 $ yt-dlp -f "bv*+ba+ba.2" --audio-multistreams
1515 # The following examples show the old method (without -S) of format selection
1516 # and how to use -S to achieve a similar but (generally) better result
1518 # Download the worst video available (old method)
1519 $ yt-dlp -f "wv*+wa/w"
1521 # Download the best video available but with the smallest resolution
1524 # Download the smallest video available
1525 $ yt-dlp -S "+size,+br"
1529 # Download the best mp4 video available, or the best video if no mp4 available
1530 $ yt-dlp -f "bv*[ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[ext=mp4] / bv*+ba/b"
1532 # Download the best video with the best extension
1533 # (For video, mp4 > webm > flv. For audio, m4a > aac > mp3 ...)
1538 # Download the best video available but no better than 480p,
1539 # or the worst video if there is no video under 480p
1540 $ yt-dlp -f "bv*[height<=480]+ba/b[height<=480] / wv*+ba/w"
1542 # Download the best video available with the largest height but no better than 480p,
1543 # or the best video with the smallest resolution if there is no video under 480p
1544 $ yt-dlp -S "height:480"
1546 # Download the best video available with the largest resolution but no better than 480p,
1547 # or the best video with the smallest resolution if there is no video under 480p
1548 # Resolution is determined by using the smallest dimension.
1549 # So this works correctly for vertical videos as well
1550 $ yt-dlp -S "res:480"
1554 # Download the best video (that also has audio) but no bigger than 50 MB,
1555 # or the worst video (that also has audio) if there is no video under 50 MB
1556 $ yt-dlp -f "b[filesize<50M] / w"
1558 # Download largest video (that also has audio) but no bigger than 50 MB,
1559 # or the smallest video (that also has audio) if there is no video under 50 MB
1560 $ yt-dlp -f "b" -S "filesize:50M"
1562 # Download best video (that also has audio) that is closest in size to 50 MB
1563 $ yt-dlp -f "b" -S "filesize~50M"
1567 # Download best video available via direct link over HTTP/HTTPS protocol,
1568 # or the best video available via any protocol if there is no such video
1569 $ yt-dlp -f "(bv*+ba/b)[protocol^=http][protocol!*=dash] / (bv*+ba/b)"
1571 # Download best video available via the best protocol
1572 # (https/ftps > http/ftp > m3u8_native > m3u8 > http_dash_segments ...)
1577 # Download the best video with either h264 or h265 codec,
1578 # or the best video if there is no such video
1579 $ yt-dlp -f "(bv*[vcodec~='^((he|a)vc|h26[45])']+ba) / (bv*+ba/b)"
1581 # Download the best video with best codec no better than h264,
1582 # or the best video with worst codec if there is no such video
1583 $ yt-dlp -S "codec:h264"
1585 # Download the best video with worst codec no worse than h264,
1586 # or the best video with best codec if there is no such video
1587 $ yt-dlp -S "+codec:h264"
1591 # More complex examples
1593 # Download the best video no better than 720p preferring framerate greater than 30,
1594 # or the worst video (still preferring framerate greater than 30) if there is no such video
1595 $ yt-dlp -f "((bv*[fps>30]/bv*)[height<=720]/(wv*[fps>30]/wv*)) + ba / (b[fps>30]/b)[height<=720]/(w[fps>30]/w)"
1597 # Download the video with the largest resolution no better than 720p,
1598 # or the video with the smallest resolution available if there is no such video,
1599 # preferring larger framerate for formats with the same resolution
1600 $ yt-dlp -S "res:720,fps"
1604 # Download the video with smallest resolution no worse than 480p,
1605 # or the video with the largest resolution available if there is no such video,
1606 # preferring better codec and then larger total bitrate for the same resolution
1607 $ yt-dlp -S "+res:480,codec,br"
1610 # MODIFYING METADATA
1612 The metadata obtained by the extractors can be modified by using `--parse-metadata
` and `--replace-in-metadata
`
1614 `--replace-in-metadata FIELDS REGEX REPLACE
` is used to replace text in any metadata field using [python regular expression](https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax). [Backreferences](https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html?highlight=backreferences#re.sub) can be used in the replace string for advanced use.
1616 The general syntax of `--parse-metadata FROM:TO
` is to give the name of a field or an [output template](#output-template) to extract data from, and the format to interpret it as, separated by a colon `:`. Either a [python regular expression](https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax) with named capture groups or a similar syntax to the [output template](#output-template) (only `%(field)s
` formatting is supported) can be used for `TO
`. The option can be used multiple times to parse and modify various fields.
1618 Note that any field created by this can be used in the [output template](#output-template) and will also affect the media file's metadata added when using `--add-metadata
`.
1620 This option also has a few special uses:
1622 * You can download an additional URL based on the metadata of the currently downloaded video. To do this, set the field `additional_urls
` to the URL that you want to download. Eg: `--parse-metadata "description:(?P<additional_urls>https?://www\.vimeo\.com/\d+)
` will download the first vimeo video found in the description
1624 * You can use this to change the metadata that is embedded in the media file. To do this, set the value of the corresponding field with a `meta_
` prefix. For example, any value you set to `meta_description
` field will be added to the `description
` field in the file. For example, you can use this to set a different "description" and "synopsis". To modify the metadata of individual streams, use the `meta<n>_
` prefix (Eg: `meta1_language
`). Any value set to the `meta_
` field will overwrite all default values.
1626 **Note**: Metadata modification happens before format selection, post-extraction and other post-processing operations. Some fields may be added or changed during these steps, overriding your changes.
1628 For reference, these are the fields yt-dlp adds by default to the file metadata:
1630 Metadata fields | From
1631 :--------------------------|:------------------------------------------------
1632 `title
` | `track
` or `title
`
1633 `date
` | `upload_date
`
1634 `description
`, `synopsis
` | `description
`
1635 `purl
`, `comment
` | `webpage_url
`
1636 `track
` | `track_number
`
1637 `artist
` | `artist
`, `creator
`, `uploader
` or `uploader_id
`
1640 `album_artist
` | `album_artist
`
1641 `disc
` | `disc_number
`
1643 `season_number
` | `season_number
`
1644 `episode_id
` | `episode
` or `episode_id
`
1645 `episode_sort
` | `episode_number
`
1646 `language
` of each stream | the format's `language
`
1648 **Note**: The file format may not support some of these fields
1651 ## Modifying metadata examples
1654 # Interpret the title as "Artist - Title"
1655 $ yt-dlp --parse-metadata "title:%(artist)s - %(title)s"
1658 $ yt-dlp --parse-metadata "description:Artist - (?P<artist>.+)"
1660 # Set title as "Series name S01E05"
1661 $ yt-dlp --parse-metadata "%(series)s S%(season_number)02dE%(episode_number)02d:%(title)s"
1663 # Prioritize uploader as the "artist" field in video metadata
1664 $ yt-dlp --parse-metadata "%(uploader|)s:%(meta_artist)s" --add-metadata
1666 # Set "comment" field in video metadata using description instead of webpage_url,
1667 # handling multiple lines correctly
1668 $ yt-dlp --parse-metadata "description:(?s)(?P<meta_comment>.+)" --add-metadata
1670 # Remove "formats" field from the infojson by setting it to an empty string
1671 $ yt-dlp --parse-metadata ":(?P<formats>)" -j
1673 # Replace all spaces and "_" in title and uploader with a `-`
1674 $ yt-dlp --replace-in-metadata "title,uploader" "[ _]" "-"
1678 # EXTRACTOR ARGUMENTS
1680 Some extractors accept additional arguments which can be passed using `--extractor-args KEY:ARGS
`. `ARGS
` is a `;
` (semicolon) separated string of `ARG=VAL1,VAL2
`. Eg: `--extractor-args "youtube:player-client=android_embedded,web;include_live_dash" --extractor-args "funimation:version=uncut"
`
1682 The following extractors use this feature:
1685 * `skip
`: One or more of `hls
`, `dash
` or `translated_subs
` to skip extraction of the m3u8 manifests, dash manifests and auto-translated subtitles respectively
1686 * `player_client
`: Clients to extract video data from. The main clients are `web
`, `android
` and `ios
` with variants `_music
`, `_embedded
`, `_embedscreen
`, `_creator
` (Eg: `web_embedded
`); and `mweb
` and `tv_embedded
` (agegate bypass) with no variants. By default, `android,web
` is used, but tv_embedded and creator variants are added as required for age-gated videos. Similarly the music variants are added for `music.youtube.com
` urls. You can use `all
` to use all the clients, and `default
` for the default clients.
1687 * `player_skip
`: Skip some network requests that are generally needed for robust extraction. One or more of `configs
` (skip client configs), `webpage
` (skip initial webpage), `js
` (skip js player). While these options can help reduce the number of requests needed or avoid some rate-limiting, they could cause some issues. See [#860](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/860) for more details
1688 * `include_live_dash
`: Include live dash formats even without `--live-from-start
` (These formats don't download properly)
1689 * `comment_sort
`: `top
` or `new
` (default) - choose comment sorting mode (on YouTube's side)
1690 * `max_comments
`: Limit the amount of comments to gather. Comma-separated list of integers representing `max-comments,max-parents,max-replies,max-replies-per-thread
`. Default is `all,all,all,all
`
1691 * E.g. `all,all,
1000,
10` will get a maximum of 1000 replies total, with up to 10 replies per thread. `1000,all,
100` will get a maximum of 1000 comments, with a maximum of 100 replies total
1693 #### youtubetab (YouTube playlists, channels, feeds, etc.)
1694 * `skip
`: One or more of `webpage
` (skip initial webpage download), `authcheck
` (allow the download of playlists requiring authentication when no initial webpage is downloaded. This may cause unwanted behavior, see [#1122](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/1122) for more details)
1695 * `approximate_date
`: Extract approximate `upload_date
` in flat-playlist. This may cause date-based filters to be slightly off
1698 * `language
`: Languages to extract. Eg: `funimation:language=english,japanese
`
1699 * `version
`: The video version to extract - `uncut
` or `simulcast
`
1702 * `language
`: Languages to extract. Eg: `crunchyroll:language=jaJp
`
1703 * `hardsub
`: Which hard-sub versions to extract. Eg: `crunchyroll:hardsub=None,enUS
`
1705 #### crunchyrollbeta
1706 * `format
`: Which stream type(s) to extract. Default is `adaptive_hls
` Eg: `crunchyrollbeta:format=vo_adaptive_hls
`
1707 * Potentially useful values include `adaptive_hls
`, `adaptive_dash
`, `vo_adaptive_hls
`, `vo_adaptive_dash
`, `download_hls
`, `trailer_hls
`, `trailer_dash
`
1708 * `hardsub
`: Preference order for which hardsub versions to extract. Default is `None
` (no hardsubs). Eg: `crunchyrollbeta:hardsub=en-US,None
`
1711 * `video_types
`: Types of videos to download - one or more of `episodes
`, `movies
`, `clips
`, `trailers
`
1714 * `segment_duration
`: Segment duration in milliseconds for HLS-DMC formats. Use it at your own risk since this feature **may result in your account termination.**
1716 #### youtubewebarchive
1717 * `check_all
`: Try to check more at the cost of more requests. One or more of `thumbnails
`, `captures
`
1720 * `comment_sort
`: `hot
` (default), `you
` (cookies needed), `top
`, `new
` - choose comment sorting mode (on GameJolt's side)
1723 * `res
`: resolution to ignore - one or more of `sd
`, `hd
`, `fhd
`
1724 * `vcodec
`: vcodec to ignore - one or more of `h264
`, `h265
`, `dvh265
`
1725 * `dr
`: dynamic range to ignore - one or more of `sdr
`, `hdr10
`, `dv
`
1728 * `app_version
`: App version to call mobile APIs with - should be set along with `manifest_app_version
`. (e.g. `20.2.1`)
1729 * `manifest_app_version
`: Numeric app version to call mobile APIs with. (e.g. `221`)
1732 * `tab
`: Which tab to download. One of `new
`, `top
`, `videos
`, `podcasts
`, `streams
`, `stacks
`. (E.g. `rokfinchannel:tab=streams
`)
1735 NOTE: These options may be changed/removed in the future without concern for backward compatibility
1737 <!-- MANPAGE: MOVE "INSTALLATION" SECTION HERE -->
1742 Plugins are loaded from `<root-dir>/ytdlp_plugins/<type>/__init__.py
`; where `<root-dir>
` is the directory of the binary (`<root-dir>/yt-dlp
`), or the root directory of the module if you are running directly from source-code (`<root dir>/yt_dlp/__main__.py
`). Plugins are currently not supported for the `pip
` version
1744 Plugins can be of `<type>
`s `extractor
` or `postprocessor
`. Extractor plugins do not need to be enabled from the CLI and are automatically invoked when the input URL is suitable for it. Postprocessor plugins can be invoked using `--use-postprocessor NAME
`.
1746 See [ytdlp_plugins](ytdlp_plugins) for example plugins.
1748 Note that **all** plugins are imported even if not invoked, and that **there are no checks** performed on plugin code. Use plugins at your own risk and only if you trust the code
1750 If you are a plugin author, add [ytdlp-plugins](https://github.com/topics/ytdlp-plugins) as a topic to your repository for discoverability
1756 yt-dlp makes the best effort to be a good command-line program, and thus should be callable from any programming language.
1758 Your program should avoid parsing the normal stdout since they may change in future versions. Instead they should use options such as `-J
`, `--print
`, `--progress-template
`, `--exec
` etc to create console output that you can reliably reproduce and parse.
1760 From a Python program, you can embed yt-dlp in a more powerful fashion, like this:
1763 from yt_dlp import YoutubeDL
1765 URLS = ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc']
1766 with YoutubeDL() as ydl:
1770 Most likely, you'll want to use various options. For a list of options available, have a look at [`yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py
`](yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py#L181).
1772 **Tip**: If you are porting your code from youtube-dl to yt-dlp, one important point to look out for is that we do not guarantee the return value of `YoutubeDL.extract_info
` to be json serializable, or even be a dictionary. It will be dictionary-like, but if you want to ensure it is a serializable dictionary, pass it through `YoutubeDL.sanitize_info
` as shown in the [example below](#extracting-information)
1774 ## Embedding examples
1776 #### Extracting information
1782 URL = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc'
1784 # ℹ️ See help(yt_dlp.YoutubeDL) for a list of available options and public functions
1786 with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
1787 info = ydl.extract_info(URL, download=False)
1789 # ℹ️ ydl.sanitize_info makes the info json-serializable
1790 print(json.dumps(ydl.sanitize_info(info)))
1792 #### Download using an info-json
1797 INFO_FILE = 'path/to/video.info.json'
1799 with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL() as ydl:
1800 error_code = ydl.download_with_info_file(INFO_FILE)
1802 print('Some videos failed to download' if error_code
1803 else 'All videos successfully downloaded')
1811 URLS = ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc']
1814 'format': 'm4a/bestaudio/best',
1815 # ℹ️ See help(yt_dlp.postprocessor) for a list of available Postprocessors and their arguments
1816 'postprocessors': [{ # Extract audio using ffmpeg
1817 'key': 'FFmpegExtractAudio',
1818 'preferredcodec': 'm4a',
1822 with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
1823 error_code = ydl.download(URLS)
1831 URLS = ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc']
1833 def longer_than_a_minute(info, *, incomplete):
1834 """Download only videos longer than a minute (or with unknown duration)"""
1835 duration = info.get('duration')
1836 if duration and duration < 60:
1837 return 'The video is too short'
1840 'match_filter': longer_than_a_minute,
1843 with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
1844 error_code = ydl.download(URLS)
1847 #### Adding logger and progress hook
1852 URLS = ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc']
1855 def debug(self, msg):
1856 # For compatibility with youtube-dl, both debug and info are passed into debug
1857 # You can distinguish them by the prefix '[debug] '
1858 if msg.startswith('[debug] '):
1863 def info(self, msg):
1866 def warning(self, msg):
1869 def error(self, msg):
1873 # ℹ️ See "progress_hooks" in help(yt_dlp.YoutubeDL)
1875 if d['status'] == 'finished':
1876 print('Done downloading, now post-processing ...')
1880 'logger': MyLogger(),
1881 'progress_hooks': [my_hook],
1884 with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
1888 #### Add a custom PostProcessor
1893 URLS = ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc']
1895 # ℹ️ See help(yt_dlp.postprocessor.PostProcessor)
1896 class MyCustomPP(yt_dlp.postprocessor.PostProcessor):
1897 def run(self, info):
1898 self.to_screen('Doing stuff')
1902 with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL() as ydl:
1903 ydl.add_post_processor(MyCustomPP())
1908 #### Use a custom format selector
1913 URL = ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc']
1915 def format_selector(ctx):
1916 """ Select the best video and the best audio that won't result in an mkv.
1917 NOTE: This is just an example and does not handle all cases """
1919 # formats are already sorted worst to best
1920 formats = ctx.get('formats')[::-1]
1922 # acodec='none' means there is no audio
1923 best_video = next(f for f in formats
1924 if f['vcodec'] != 'none' and f['acodec'] == 'none')
1926 # find compatible audio extension
1927 audio_ext = {'mp4': 'm4a', 'webm': 'webm'}[best_video['ext']]
1928 # vcodec='none' means there is no video
1929 best_audio = next(f for f in formats if (
1930 f['acodec'] != 'none' and f['vcodec'] == 'none' and f['ext'] == audio_ext))
1932 # These are the minimum required fields for a merged format
1934 'format_id': f'{best_video["format_id"]}+{best_audio["format_id"]}',
1935 'ext': best_video['ext'],
1936 'requested_formats': [best_video, best_audio],
1937 # Must be + separated list of protocols
1938 'protocol': f'{best_video["protocol"]}+{best_audio["protocol"]}'
1943 'format': format_selector,
1946 with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
1950 <!-- MANPAGE: MOVE "NEW FEATURES" SECTION HERE -->
1952 # DEPRECATED OPTIONS
1954 These are all the deprecated options and the current alternative to achieve the same effect
1956 #### Almost redundant options
1957 While these options are almost the same as their new counterparts, there are some differences that prevents them being redundant
1959 -j, --dump-json --print "%()j"
1960 -F, --list-formats --print formats_table
1961 --list-thumbnails --print thumbnails_table --print playlist:thumbnails_table
1962 --list-subs --print automatic_captions_table --print subtitles_table
1964 #### Redundant options
1965 While these options are redundant, they are still expected to be used due to their ease of use
1967 --get-description --print description
1968 --get-duration --print duration_string
1969 --get-filename --print filename
1970 --get-format --print format
1972 --get-thumbnail --print thumbnail
1973 -e, --get-title --print title
1974 -g, --get-url --print urls
1975 --match-title REGEX --match-filter "title ~= (?i)REGEX"
1976 --reject-title REGEX --match-filter "title !~= (?i)REGEX"
1977 --min-views COUNT --match-filter "view_count >=? COUNT"
1978 --max-views COUNT --match-filter "view_count <=? COUNT"
1979 --user-agent UA --add-header "User-Agent:UA"
1980 --referer URL --add-header "Referer:URL"
1983 #### Not recommended
1984 While these options still work, their use is not recommended since there are other alternatives to achieve the same
1986 --exec-before-download CMD --exec "before_dl:CMD"
1987 --no-exec-before-download --no-exec
1988 --all-formats -f all
1989 --all-subs --sub-langs all --write-subs
1990 --print-json -j --no-simulate
1991 --autonumber-size NUMBER Use string formatting. Eg: %(autonumber)03d
1992 --autonumber-start NUMBER Use internal field formatting like %(autonumber+NUMBER)s
1993 --id -o "%(id)s.%(ext)s"
1994 --metadata-from-title FORMAT --parse-metadata "%(title)s:FORMAT"
1995 --hls-prefer-native --downloader "m3u8:native"
1996 --hls-prefer-ffmpeg --downloader "m3u8:ffmpeg"
1997 --list-formats-old --compat-options list-formats (Alias: --no-list-formats-as-table)
1998 --list-formats-as-table --compat-options -list-formats [Default] (Alias: --no-list-formats-old)
1999 --youtube-skip-dash-manifest --extractor-args "youtube:skip=dash" (Alias: --no-youtube-include-dash-manifest)
2000 --youtube-skip-hls-manifest --extractor-args "youtube:skip=hls" (Alias: --no-youtube-include-hls-manifest)
2001 --youtube-include-dash-manifest Default (Alias: --no-youtube-skip-dash-manifest)
2002 --youtube-include-hls-manifest Default (Alias: --no-youtube-skip-hls-manifest)
2005 #### Developer options
2006 These options are not intended to be used by the end-user
2008 --test Download only part of video for testing extractors
2009 --youtube-print-sig-code For testing youtube signatures
2010 --allow-unplayable-formats List unplayable formats also
2011 --no-allow-unplayable-formats Default
2015 These are aliases that are no longer documented for various reasons
2017 --avconv-location --ffmpeg-location
2018 --clean-infojson --clean-info-json
2019 --cn-verification-proxy URL --geo-verification-proxy URL
2020 --dump-headers --print-traffic
2021 --dump-intermediate-pages --dump-pages
2022 --force-write-download-archive --force-write-archive
2023 --load-info --load-info-json
2024 --no-clean-infojson --no-clean-info-json
2025 --no-split-tracks --no-split-chapters
2026 --no-write-srt --no-write-subs
2027 --prefer-unsecure --prefer-insecure
2028 --rate-limit RATE --limit-rate RATE
2029 --split-tracks --split-chapters
2030 --srt-lang LANGS --sub-langs LANGS
2031 --trim-file-names LENGTH --trim-filenames LENGTH
2032 --write-srt --write-subs
2033 --yes-overwrites --force-overwrites
2035 #### Sponskrub Options
2036 Support for [SponSkrub](https://github.com/faissaloo/SponSkrub) has been deprecated in favor of the `--sponsorblock
` options
2038 --sponskrub --sponsorblock-mark all
2039 --no-sponskrub --no-sponsorblock
2040 --sponskrub-cut --sponsorblock-remove all
2041 --no-sponskrub-cut --sponsorblock-remove -all
2042 --sponskrub-force Not applicable
2043 --no-sponskrub-force Not applicable
2044 --sponskrub-location Not applicable
2045 --sponskrub-args Not applicable
2047 #### No longer supported
2048 These options may no longer work as intended
2050 --prefer-avconv avconv is not officially supported by yt-dlp (Alias: --no-prefer-ffmpeg)
2051 --prefer-ffmpeg Default (Alias: --no-prefer-avconv)
2052 -C, --call-home Not implemented
2053 --no-call-home Default
2054 --include-ads No longer supported
2055 --no-include-ads Default
2056 --write-annotations No supported site has annotations now
2057 --no-write-annotations Default
2060 These options were deprecated since 2014 and have now been entirely removed
2062 -A, --auto-number -o "%(autonumber)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"
2063 -t, -l, --title, --literal -o "%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"
2066 See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md#contributing-to-yt-dlp) for instructions on [Opening an Issue](CONTRIBUTING.md#opening-an-issue) and [Contributing code to the project](CONTRIBUTING.md#developer-instructions)
2069 For FAQ see the [youtube-dl README](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#faq)
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