3 [](#readme)
5 []
(https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest)
6 []
(https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/actions)
7 [](LICENSE)
8 [](Collaborators.md#collaborators)
9 [](supportedsites.md)
10 []
(https://discord.gg/H5MNcFW63r)
11 []
(https://yt-dlp.readthedocs.io)
12 []
(https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commits)
13 []
(https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commits)
14 []
(https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest)
15 []
(https://pypi.org/project/yt-dlp)
19 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
21 * [NEW FEATURES](#new-features)
22 * [Differences in default behavior](#differences-in-default-behavior)
23 * [INSTALLATION](#installation)
25 * [Release Files](#release-files)
26 * [Dependencies](#dependencies)
28 * [USAGE AND OPTIONS](#usage-and-options)
29 * [General Options](#general-options)
30 * [Network Options](#network-options)
31 * [Geo-restriction](#geo-restriction)
32 * [Video Selection](#video-selection)
33 * [Download Options](#download-options)
34 * [Filesystem Options](#filesystem-options)
35 * [Thumbnail Options](#thumbnail-options)
36 * [Internet Shortcut Options](#internet-shortcut-options)
37 * [Verbosity and Simulation Options](#verbosity-and-simulation-options)
38 * [Workarounds](#workarounds)
39 * [Video Format Options](#video-format-options)
40 * [Subtitle Options](#subtitle-options)
41 * [Authentication Options](#authentication-options)
42 * [Post-processing Options](#post-processing-options)
43 * [SponsorBlock Options](#sponsorblock-options)
44 * [Extractor Options](#extractor-options)
45 * [CONFIGURATION](#configuration)
46 * [Authentication with .netrc file](#authentication-with-netrc-file)
47 * [OUTPUT TEMPLATE](#output-template)
48 * [Output template and Windows batch files](#output-template-and-windows-batch-files)
49 * [Output template examples](#output-template-examples)
50 * [FORMAT SELECTION](#format-selection)
51 * [Filtering Formats](#filtering-formats)
52 * [Sorting Formats](#sorting-formats)
53 * [Format Selection examples](#format-selection-examples)
54 * [MODIFYING METADATA](#modifying-metadata)
55 * [Modifying metadata examples](#modifying-metadata-examples)
56 * [EXTRACTOR ARGUMENTS](#extractor-arguments)
58 * [EMBEDDING YT-DLP](#embedding-yt-dlp)
59 * [DEPRECATED OPTIONS](#deprecated-options)
60 * [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md#contributing-to-yt-dlp)
61 * [Opening an Issue](CONTRIBUTING.md#opening-an-issue)
62 * [Developer Instructions](CONTRIBUTING.md#developer-instructions)
67 The major new features from the latest release of
[blackjack4494/yt-dlc](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc) are:
69 * **
[SponsorBlock Integration](#sponsorblock-options)**: You can mark/remove sponsor sections in youtube videos by utilizing the [SponsorBlock](https://sponsor.ajay.app) API
71 * **[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))
73 * **Merged with youtube-dl
[commit/379f52a](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/379f52a4954013767219d25099cce9e0f9401961)**: (v2021.06
.06) You get all the latest features and patches of
[youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl) in addition to all the features of
[youtube-dlc](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc)
75 * **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 improvements are not available. See
[#31](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/31) for details.
77 * **Youtube improvements**:
78 * All Feeds (
`:ytfav`,
`:ytwatchlater`,
`:ytsubs`,
`:ythistory`,
`:ytrec`) and private playlists supports downloading multiple pages of content
79 * Search (
`ytsearch:`,
`ytsearchdate:`), search URLs and in-channel search works
80 * Mixes supports downloading multiple pages of content
81 * Some (but not all) age-gated content can be downloaded without cookies
82 * Fix for
[n-sig based throttling](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326)
83 * Redirect channel's home URL automatically to
`/video` to preserve the old behaviour
84 * `255kbps` audio is extracted (if available) from youtube music when premium cookies are given
85 * Youtube music Albums, channels etc can be downloaded (
[except self-uploaded music](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/723))
87 * **Cookies from browser**: Cookies can be automatically extracted from all major web browsers using
`--cookies-from-browser BROWSER[:PROFILE]`
89 * **Split video by chapters**: Videos can be split into multiple files based on chapters using
`--split-chapters`
91 * **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
93 * **Aria2c with HLS/DASH**: You can use
`aria2c` as the external downloader for DASH(mpd) and HLS(m3u8) formats
95 * **New extractors**:
17live,
3speak, amazonstore, animelab, audius, bandcampmusic, bannedvideo, biliintl, bitwave.tv, blackboardcollaborate, cam4, cgtn, chingari, ciscowebex, damtomo, discoveryplus.in, douyin, epicon, euscreen, fancode, filmmodu, gab, gedi, gettr, gopro, gotostage, gronkh, koo, manototv, mediaite, mediaklikk, mediasetshow, mediathek, microsoftstream, mildom, mirrativ, mlsscoccer, mtv.it, musescore, mxplayershow, n1, nebula, nfhsnetwork, novaplay, nzherald, olympics replay, on24, openrec, parlview-AU, peloton, planetmarathi, pluto.tv, polsatgo, polskieradio, pornflip, projectveritas, radiko, radiokapital, radlive, raiplayradio, rcs, rctiplus, saitosan, sciencechannel, shemaroome, skynews-AU, skynews-story, sovietscloset, startv, streamanity, telemundo, theta, theta, tokentube, tv2huseries, ukcolumn, utreon, veo, vidiolive, vidiopremier, voicy, vupload, whowatch, wim.tv, wppilot, youtube webarchive, zee5, zen.yandex
97 * **New playlist extractors**: bilibili categories, eroprofile albums, hotstar series, hungama albums, newgrounds user, niconico search/users, paramountplus series, patreon user, peertube playlist/channels, roosterteeth series, sonyliv series, tiktok user, trovo channels, voot series
99 * **Fixed/improved extractors**:
7plus,
9now, afreecatv, akamai, aljazeera, amcnetworks, animalplanet, archive.org, arte, atv, bbc, bilibili, bitchute, bravotv, camtube, cbc, cda, ceskatelevize, chingari, comedycentral, coub, crackle, crunchyroll, curiositystream, diynetwork, dw, eroprofile, facebook, francetv, funimation, globo, hearthisatie, hidive, hotstar, hungama, imdb, ina, instagram, iprima, itv, iwara, kakao, la7, linkedinlearning, linuxacadamy, mediaset, mediasite, motherless, mxplayer, nbcolympics, ndr, newgrounds, niconico, nitter, nova, nrk, nuvid, oreilly, paramountplus, parliamentlive, patreon, pbs, peertube, plutotv, polskieradio, pornhub, reddit, reddit, redtube, rmcdecouverte, roosterteeth, rtp, rumble, saml verizon login, skyit, sonyliv, soundcloud, southparkde, spankbang, spreaker, streamable, tagesschau, tbs, tennistv, tenplay, tiktok, tubi, tv2, tv2hu, tv5mondeplus, tvp, twitcasting, vh1, viafree, videa, vidio, vidme, viewlift, viki, vimeo, viu, vk, vlive, vrt, wakanim, xhamster, yahoo
101 * **New MSOs**: Philo, Spectrum, SlingTV, Cablevision, RCN
103 * **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
105 * **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`)
107 * **Portable Configuration**: Configuration files are automatically loaded from the home and root directories. See [configuration](#configuration) for details
109 * **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`
111 * **Other new options**:
`--print`,
`--sleep-requests`,
`--convert-thumbnails`,
`--write-link`,
`--force-download-archive`,
`--force-overwrites`,
`--break-on-reject` etc
113 * **Improvements**: Regex and other operators in
`--match-filter`, multiple
`--postprocessor-args` and
`--downloader-args`, faster archive checking, more [format selection options](#format-selection) etc
115 * **Plugins**: Extractors and PostProcessors can be loaded from an external file. See [plugins](#plugins) for details
117 * **Self-updater**: The releases can be updated using
`yt-dlp -U`
120 See
[changelog](Changelog.md) or [commits](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commits) for the full list of changes
123 **PS**: Some of these changes are already in youtube-dlc, but are still unreleased. See [this](Changelog.md#unreleased-changes-in-blackjack4494yt-dlc) for details
125 If you are coming from
[youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl), the amount of changes are very large. Compare
[options](#options) and [supported sites](supportedsites.md) with youtube-dl's to get an idea of the massive number of features/patches [youtube-dlc](https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc) has accumulated.
127 ### Differences in default behavior
129 Some of yt-dlp's default options are different from that of youtube-dl and youtube-dlc:
131 * The options
`--auto-number` (
`-A`),
`--title` (
`-t`) and
`--literal` (
`-l`), no longer work. See [removed options](#Removed) for details
132 * `avconv` is not supported as as an alternative to
`ffmpeg`
133 * 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`
134 * 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
135 * 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 prefered. Use
`-f bv+ba/b` or
`--compat-options format-spec` to revert this
136 * 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
137 * `--ignore-errors` is enabled by default. Use
`--abort-on-error` or
`--compat-options abort-on-error` to abort on errors instead
138 * 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
139 * `--add-metadata` attaches the
`infojson` to
`mkv` files in addition to writing the metadata when used with
`--write-infojson`. Use
`--compat-options no-attach-info-json` to revert this
140 * `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
141 * The output of
`-F` is listed in a new format. Use
`--compat-options list-formats` to revert this
142 * 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
143 * 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
144 * 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. 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
145 * Unavailable videos are also listed for youtube playlists. Use
`--compat-options no-youtube-unavailable-videos` to remove this
146 * 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
147 * Thumbnail embedding in
`mp4` is done with mutagen if possible. Use
`--compat-options embed-thumbnail-atomicparsley` to force the use of AtomicParsley instead
148 * 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
149 * 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 seperate 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
151 For ease of use, a few more compat options are available:
152 * `--compat-options all`: Use all compat options
153 * `--compat-options youtube-dl`: Same as
`--compat-options all,-multistreams`
154 * `--compat-options youtube-dlc`: Same as
`--compat-options all,-no-live-chat,-no-youtube-channel-redirect`
159 You can install yt-dlp using one of the following methods:
161 ### Using the release binary
163 You can simply download the
[correct binary file](#release-files) for your OS: **[[Windows](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.exe)]
[[UNIX-like](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp)]**
165 In UNIX-like OSes (MacOS, Linux, BSD), you can also install the same in one of the following ways:
168 sudo curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
169 sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
173 sudo wget https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -O /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
174 sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
178 sudo aria2c https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
179 sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
182 PS: The manpages, shell completion files etc. are available in
[yt-dlp.tar.gz](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.tar.gz)
184 ### With [PIP](https://pypi.org/project/pip)
186 You can install the
[PyPI package](https://pypi.org/project/yt-dlp) with:
188 python3 -m pip install -U yt-dlp
191 You can install without any of the optional dependencies using:
193 python3 -m pip install --no-deps -U yt-dlp
196 If you want to be on the cutting edge, you can also install the master branch with:
198 python3 -m pip3 install --force-reinstall https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.zip
201 Note that on some systems, you may need to use
`py` or
`python` instead of
`python3`
203 ### With [Homebrew](https://brew.sh)
205 macOS or Linux users that are using Homebrew can also install it by:
208 brew install yt-dlp/taps/yt-dlp
212 You can use
`yt-dlp -U` to update if you are [using the provided release](#using-the-release-binary)
214 If you [installed with pip](#with-pip), simply re-run the same command that was used to install the program
216 If you [installed using Homebrew](#with-homebrew), run
`brew upgrade yt-dlp/taps/yt-dlp`
224 [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp)|Platform-independant binary. Needs Python (recommended for **UNIX-like systems**)
225 [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**)
231 [yt-dlp_macos](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp_macos)|MacOS (
10.15+) standalone executable
232 [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
233 [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++
14
234 [yt-dlp_win.zip](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp_win.zip)|Unpackaged Windows executable (no auto-update)
235 [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)
241 [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
242 [SHA2-512SUMS](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/SHA2-512SUMS)|GNU-style SHA512 sums
243 [SHA2-256SUMS](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/SHA2-256SUMS)|GNU-style SHA256 sums
246 Python versions
3.6+ (CPython and PyPy) are supported. Other versions and implementations may or may not work correctly.
248 <!-- Python
3.5+ uses VC++
14 and it is already embedded in the binary created
249 <!x-- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=
26999 --x>
250 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.
253 While all the other dependancies are optional,
`ffmpeg` and
`ffprobe` are highly recommended
254 * [**ffmpeg** and **ffprobe**](https://www.ffmpeg.org) - Required for
[merging seperate video and audio files](#format-selection) as well as for various [post-processing](#post-processing-options) tasks. Licence [depends on the build](https://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html)
255 * [**mutagen**](https://github.com/quodlibet/mutagen) - For embedding thumbnail in certain formats. Licensed under
[GPLv2+](https://github.com/quodlibet/mutagen/blob/master/COPYING)
256 * [**pycryptodomex**](https://github.com/Legrandin/pycryptodome) - For decrypting AES-
128 HLS streams and various other data. Licensed under
[BSD2](https://github.com/Legrandin/pycryptodome/blob/master/LICENSE.rst)
257 * [**websockets**](https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets) - For downloading over websocket. Licensed under
[BSD3](https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets/blob/main/LICENSE)
258 * [**keyring**](https://github.com/jaraco/keyring) - For decrypting cookies of chromium-based browsers on Linux. Licensed under
[MIT](https://github.com/jaraco/keyring/blob/main/LICENSE)
259 * [**AtomicParsley**](https://github.com/wez/atomicparsley) - For embedding thumbnail in mp4/m4a if mutagen is not present. Licensed under
[GPLv2+](https://github.com/wez/atomicparsley/blob/master/COPYING)
260 * [**rtmpdump**](http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu) - For downloading
`rtmp` streams. ffmpeg will be used as a fallback. Licensed under
[GPLv2+](http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu)
261 * [**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)
262 * [**phantomjs**](https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs) - Used in extractors where javascript needs to be run. Licensed under
[BSD3](https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/blob/master/LICENSE.BSD)
263 * [**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)
264 * Any external downloader that you want to use with
`--downloader`
266 To use or redistribute the dependencies, you must agree to their respective licensing terms.
268 The Windows and MacOS standalone release binaries are already built with the python interpreter, mutagen, pycryptodomex and websockets included.
270 **Note**: There are some regressions in newer ffmpeg versions that causes various issues when used alongside yt-dlp. Since ffmpeg is such an important dependancy, we provide
[custom builds](https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds/wiki/Latest#latest-autobuilds) 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 specifc issues solved by these builds
276 To build the Windows executable, you must have pyinstaller (and optionally mutagen, pycryptodomex, websockets). 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.
278 py -m pip install -U pyinstaller -r requirements.txt
279 py devscripts/make_lazy_extractors.py
282 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
285 You will need the required build tools:
`python`,
`make` (GNU),
`pandoc`,
`zip`,
`pytest`
286 Then simply run
`make`. You can also run
`make yt-dlp` instead to compile only the binary without updating any of the additional files
288 **Note**: In either platform,
`devscripts/update-version.py` can be used to automatically update the version number
290 You can also fork the project on github and push it to a release branch in your fork for the
[build workflow](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/.github/workflows/build.yml) to automatically make a release for you
294 yt-dlp [OPTIONS] [--] URL [URL...]
296 `Ctrl+F` is your friend :D
297 <!-- Auto generated -->
300 -h, --help Print this help text and exit
301 --version Print program version and exit
302 -U, --update Update this program to latest version. Make
303 sure that you have sufficient permissions
304 (run with sudo if needed)
305 -i, --ignore-errors Ignore download and postprocessing errors.
306 The download will be considered successful
307 even if the postprocessing fails
308 --no-abort-on-error Continue with next video on download
309 errors; e.g. to skip unavailable videos in
311 --abort-on-error Abort downloading of further videos if an
312 error occurs (Alias: --no-ignore-errors)
313 --dump-user-agent Display the current user-agent and exit
314 --list-extractors List all supported extractors and exit
315 --extractor-descriptions Output descriptions of all supported
317 --force-generic-extractor Force extraction to use the generic
319 --default-search PREFIX Use this prefix for unqualified URLs. For
320 example "gvsearch2:" downloads two videos
321 from google videos for the search term
322 "large apple". Use the value "auto" to let
323 yt-dlp guess ("auto_warning" to emit a
324 warning when guessing). "error" just throws
325 an error. The default value "fixup_error"
326 repairs broken URLs, but emits an error if
327 this is not possible instead of searching
328 --ignore-config, --no-config Disable loading any configuration files
329 except the one provided by --config-location.
330 When given inside a configuration
331 file, no further configuration files are
332 loaded. Additionally, (for backward
333 compatibility) if this option is found
334 inside the system configuration file, the
335 user configuration is not loaded
336 --config-location PATH Location of the main configuration file;
337 either the path to the config or its
339 --flat-playlist Do not extract the videos of a playlist,
341 --no-flat-playlist Extract the videos of a playlist
342 --mark-watched Mark videos watched (even with --simulate).
343 Currently only supported for YouTube
344 --no-mark-watched Do not mark videos watched (default)
345 --no-colors Do not emit color codes in output
346 --compat-options OPTS Options that can help keep compatibility
347 with youtube-dl or youtube-dlc
348 configurations by reverting some of the
349 changes made in yt-dlp. See "Differences in
350 default behavior" for details
353 --proxy URL Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy.
354 To enable SOCKS proxy, specify a proper
356 socks5://
127.0.0.1:
1080/. Pass in an empty
357 string (--proxy "") for direct connection
358 --socket-timeout SECONDS Time to wait before giving up, in seconds
359 --source-address IP Client-side IP address to bind to
360 -4, --force-ipv4 Make all connections via IPv4
361 -6, --force-ipv6 Make all connections via IPv6
364 --geo-verification-proxy URL Use this proxy to verify the IP address for
365 some geo-restricted sites. The default
366 proxy specified by --proxy (or none, if the
367 option is not present) is used for the
369 --geo-bypass Bypass geographic restriction via faking
370 X-Forwarded-For HTTP header
371 --no-geo-bypass Do not bypass geographic restriction via
372 faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header
373 --geo-bypass-country CODE Force bypass geographic restriction with
374 explicitly provided two-letter ISO
3166-
2
376 --geo-bypass-ip-block IP_BLOCK Force bypass geographic restriction with
377 explicitly provided IP block in CIDR
381 --playlist-start NUMBER Playlist video to start at (default is
1)
382 --playlist-end NUMBER Playlist video to end at (default is last)
383 --playlist-items ITEM_SPEC Playlist video items to download. Specify
384 indices of the videos in the playlist
385 separated by commas like: "--playlist-items
386 1,
2,
5,
8" if you want to download videos
387 indexed
1,
2,
5,
8 in the playlist. You can
388 specify range: "--playlist-items
389 1-
3,
7,
10-
13", it will download the videos
390 at index
1,
2,
3,
7,
10,
11,
12 and
13
391 --max-downloads NUMBER Abort after downloading NUMBER files
392 --min-filesize SIZE Do not download any videos smaller than
393 SIZE (e.g.
50k or
44.6m)
394 --max-filesize SIZE Do not download any videos larger than SIZE
396 --date DATE Download only videos uploaded on this date.
397 The date can be "YYYYMMDD" or in the format
398 "(now|today)[+-][
0-
9](day|week|month|year)(s)?"
399 --datebefore DATE Download only videos uploaded on or before
400 this date. The date formats accepted is the
402 --dateafter DATE Download only videos uploaded on or after
403 this date. The date formats accepted is the
405 --match-filter FILTER Generic video filter. Any field (see
406 "OUTPUT TEMPLATE") can be compared with a
407 number or a string using the operators
408 defined in "Filtering formats". You can
409 also simply specify a field to match if the
410 field is present and "!field" to check if
411 the field is not present. In addition,
412 Python style regular expression matching
413 can be done using "~=", and multiple
414 filters can be checked with "&". Use a "
\"
415 to escape "&" or quotes if needed. Eg:
416 --match-filter "!is_live & like_count>?
100
417 & description~='(?i)
\bcats \& dogs
\b'"
418 matches only videos that are not live, has
419 a like count more than
100 (or the like
420 field is not available), and also has a
421 description that contains the phrase "cats
422 & dogs" (ignoring case)
423 --no-match-filter Do not use generic video filter (default)
424 --no-playlist Download only the video, if the URL refers
425 to a video and a playlist
426 --yes-playlist Download the playlist, if the URL refers to
427 a video and a playlist
428 --age-limit YEARS Download only videos suitable for the given
430 --download-archive FILE Download only videos not listed in the
431 archive file. Record the IDs of all
432 downloaded videos in it
433 --break-on-existing Stop the download process when encountering
434 a file that is in the archive
435 --break-on-reject Stop the download process when encountering
436 a file that has been filtered out
437 --skip-playlist-after-errors N Number of allowed failures until the rest
438 of the playlist is skipped
439 --no-download-archive Do not use archive file (default)
442 -N, --concurrent-fragments N Number of fragments of a dash/hlsnative
443 video that should be download concurrently
445 -r, --limit-rate RATE Maximum download rate in bytes per second
447 --throttled-rate RATE Minimum download rate in bytes per second
448 below which throttling is assumed and the
449 video data is re-extracted (e.g.
100K)
450 -R, --retries RETRIES Number of retries (default is
10), or
452 --fragment-retries RETRIES Number of retries for a fragment (default
453 is
10), or "infinite" (DASH, hlsnative and
455 --skip-unavailable-fragments Skip unavailable fragments for DASH,
456 hlsnative and ISM (default)
457 (Alias: --no-abort-on-unavailable-fragment)
458 --abort-on-unavailable-fragment Abort downloading if a fragment is unavailable
459 (Alias: --no-skip-unavailable-fragments)
460 --keep-fragments Keep downloaded fragments on disk after
461 downloading is finished
462 --no-keep-fragments Delete downloaded fragments after
463 downloading is finished (default)
464 --buffer-size SIZE Size of download buffer (e.g.
1024 or
16K)
466 --resize-buffer The buffer size is automatically resized
467 from an initial value of --buffer-size
469 --no-resize-buffer Do not automatically adjust the buffer size
470 --http-chunk-size SIZE Size of a chunk for chunk-based HTTP
471 downloading (e.g.
10485760 or
10M) (default
472 is disabled). May be useful for bypassing
473 bandwidth throttling imposed by a webserver
475 --playlist-reverse Download playlist videos in reverse order
476 --no-playlist-reverse Download playlist videos in default order
478 --playlist-random Download playlist videos in random order
479 --xattr-set-filesize Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with
481 --hls-use-mpegts Use the mpegts container for HLS videos;
482 allowing some players to play the video
483 while downloading, and reducing the chance
484 of file corruption if download is
485 interrupted. This is enabled by default for
487 --no-hls-use-mpegts Do not use the mpegts container for HLS
488 videos. This is default when not
489 downloading live streams
490 --downloader [PROTO:]NAME Name or path of the external downloader to
491 use (optionally) prefixed by the protocols
492 (http, ftp, m3u8, dash, rstp, rtmp, mms) to
493 use it for. Currently supports native,
494 aria2c, avconv, axel, curl, ffmpeg, httpie,
495 wget (Recommended: aria2c). You can use
496 this option multiple times to set different
497 downloaders for different protocols. For
498 example, --downloader aria2c --downloader
499 "dash,m3u8:native" will use aria2c for
500 http/ftp downloads, and the native
501 downloader for dash/m3u8 downloads
502 (Alias: --external-downloader)
503 --downloader-args NAME:ARGS Give these arguments to the external
504 downloader. Specify the downloader name and
505 the arguments separated by a colon ":". For
506 ffmpeg, arguments can be passed to
507 different positions using the same syntax
508 as --postprocessor-args. You can use this
509 option multiple times to give different
510 arguments to different downloaders
511 (Alias: --external-downloader-args)
513 ## Filesystem Options:
514 -a, --batch-file FILE File containing URLs to download ('-' for
515 stdin), one URL per line. Lines starting
516 with '#', ';' or ']' are considered as
518 --no-batch-file Do not read URLs from batch file (default)
519 -P, --paths [TYPES:]PATH The paths where the files should be
520 downloaded. Specify the type of file and
521 the path separated by a colon ":". All the
522 same types as --output are supported.
523 Additionally, you can also provide "home"
524 (default) and "temp" paths. All
525 intermediary files are first downloaded to
526 the temp path and then the final files are
527 moved over to the home path after download
528 is finished. This option is ignored if
529 --output is an absolute path
530 -o, --output [TYPES:]TEMPLATE Output filename template; see "OUTPUT
531 TEMPLATE" for details
532 --output-na-placeholder TEXT Placeholder value for unavailable meta
533 fields in output filename template
535 --restrict-filenames Restrict filenames to only ASCII
536 characters, and avoid "&" and spaces in
538 --no-restrict-filenames Allow Unicode characters, "&" and spaces in
540 --windows-filenames Force filenames to be Windows-compatible
541 --no-windows-filenames Make filenames Windows-compatible only if
542 using Windows (default)
543 --trim-filenames LENGTH Limit the filename length (excluding
544 extension) to the specified number of
546 -w, --no-overwrites Do not overwrite any files
547 --force-overwrites Overwrite all video and metadata files.
548 This option includes --no-continue
549 --no-force-overwrites Do not overwrite the video, but overwrite
550 related files (default)
551 -c, --continue Resume partially downloaded files/fragments
553 --no-continue Do not resume partially downloaded
554 fragments. If the file is not fragmented,
555 restart download of the entire file
556 --part Use .part files instead of writing directly
557 into output file (default)
558 --no-part Do not use .part files - write directly
560 --mtime Use the Last-modified header to set the
561 file modification time (default)
562 --no-mtime Do not use the Last-modified header to set
563 the file modification time
564 --write-description Write video description to a .description
566 --no-write-description Do not write video description (default)
567 --write-info-json Write video metadata to a .info.json file
568 (this may contain personal information)
569 --no-write-info-json Do not write video metadata (default)
570 --write-playlist-metafiles Write playlist metadata in addition to the
571 video metadata when using --write-info-json,
572 --write-description etc. (default)
573 --no-write-playlist-metafiles Do not write playlist metadata when using
574 --write-info-json, --write-description etc.
575 --clean-infojson Remove some private fields such as
576 filenames from the infojson. Note that it
577 could still contain some personal
578 information (default)
579 --no-clean-infojson Write all fields to the infojson
580 --write-comments Retrieve video comments to be placed in the
581 infojson. The comments are fetched even
582 without this option if the extraction is
583 known to be quick (Alias: --get-comments)
584 --no-write-comments Do not retrieve video comments unless the
585 extraction is known to be quick
586 (Alias: --no-get-comments)
587 --load-info-json FILE JSON file containing the video information
588 (created with the "--write-info-json"
590 --cookies FILE File to read cookies from and dump cookie
592 --no-cookies Do not read/dump cookies from/to file
594 --cookies-from-browser BROWSER[:PROFILE]
595 Load cookies from a user profile of the
596 given web browser. Currently supported
597 browsers are: brave, chrome, chromium,
598 edge, firefox, opera, safari, vivaldi. You
599 can specify the user profile name or
600 directory using "BROWSER:PROFILE_NAME" or
601 "BROWSER:PROFILE_PATH". If no profile is
602 given, the most recently accessed one is
604 --no-cookies-from-browser Do not load cookies from browser (default)
605 --cache-dir DIR Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl
606 can store some downloaded information (such
607 as client ids and signatures) permanently.
608 By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/yt-dlp or
610 --no-cache-dir Disable filesystem caching
611 --rm-cache-dir Delete all filesystem cache files
613 ## Thumbnail Options:
614 --write-thumbnail Write thumbnail image to disk
615 --no-write-thumbnail Do not write thumbnail image to disk
617 --write-all-thumbnails Write all thumbnail image formats to disk
618 --list-thumbnails List available thumbnails of each video.
619 Simulate unless --no-simulate is used
621 ## Internet Shortcut Options:
622 --write-link Write an internet shortcut file, depending
623 on the current platform (.url, .webloc or
624 .desktop). The URL may be cached by the OS
625 --write-url-link Write a .url Windows internet shortcut. The
626 OS caches the URL based on the file path
627 --write-webloc-link Write a .webloc macOS internet shortcut
628 --write-desktop-link Write a .desktop Linux internet shortcut
630 ## Verbosity and Simulation Options:
631 -q, --quiet Activate quiet mode. If used with
632 --verbose, print the log to stderr
633 --no-warnings Ignore warnings
634 -s, --simulate Do not download the video and do not write
636 --no-simulate Download the video even if printing/listing
638 --ignore-no-formats-error Ignore "No video formats" error. Useful for
639 extracting metadata even if the videos are
640 not actually available for download
642 --no-ignore-no-formats-error Throw error when no downloadable video
643 formats are found (default)
644 --skip-download Do not download the video but write all
645 related files (Alias: --no-download)
646 -O, --print TEMPLATE Quiet, but print the given fields for each
647 video. Simulate unless --no-simulate is
648 used. Either a field name or same syntax as
649 the output template can be used
650 -j, --dump-json Quiet, but print JSON information for each
651 video. Simulate unless --no-simulate is
652 used. See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for a
653 description of available keys
654 -J, --dump-single-json Quiet, but print JSON information for each
655 url or infojson passed. Simulate unless
656 --no-simulate is used. If the URL refers to
657 a playlist, the whole playlist information
658 is dumped in a single line
659 --force-write-archive Force download archive entries to be
660 written as far as no errors occur, even if
661 -s or another simulation option is used
662 (Alias: --force-download-archive)
663 --newline Output progress bar as new lines
664 --no-progress Do not print progress bar
665 --progress Show progress bar, even if in quiet mode
666 --console-title Display progress in console titlebar
667 --progress-template [TYPES:]TEMPLATE
668 Template for progress outputs, optionally
669 prefixed with one of "download:" (default),
670 "download-title:" (the console title),
671 "postprocess:", or "postprocess-title:".
672 The video's fields are accessible under the
673 "info" key and the progress attributes are
674 accessible under "progress" key. E.g.:
675 --console-title --progress-template
676 "download-title:%(info.id)s-%(progress.eta)s"
677 -v, --verbose Print various debugging information
678 --dump-pages Print downloaded pages encoded using base64
679 to debug problems (very verbose)
680 --write-pages Write downloaded intermediary pages to
681 files in the current directory to debug
683 --print-traffic Display sent and read HTTP traffic
686 --encoding ENCODING Force the specified encoding (experimental)
687 --no-check-certificates Suppress HTTPS certificate validation
688 --prefer-insecure Use an unencrypted connection to retrieve
689 information about the video (Currently
690 supported only for YouTube)
691 --user-agent UA Specify a custom user agent
692 --referer URL Specify a custom referer, use if the video
693 access is restricted to one domain
694 --add-header FIELD:VALUE Specify a custom HTTP header and its value,
695 separated by a colon ":". You can use this
696 option multiple times
697 --bidi-workaround Work around terminals that lack
698 bidirectional text support. Requires bidiv
699 or fribidi executable in PATH
700 --sleep-requests SECONDS Number of seconds to sleep between requests
701 during data extraction
702 --sleep-interval SECONDS Number of seconds to sleep before each
703 download. This is the minimum time to sleep
704 when used along with --max-sleep-interval
705 (Alias: --min-sleep-interval)
706 --max-sleep-interval SECONDS Maximum number of seconds to sleep. Can
707 only be used along with --min-sleep-interval
708 --sleep-subtitles SECONDS Number of seconds to sleep before each
711 ## Video Format Options:
712 -f, --format FORMAT Video format code, see "FORMAT SELECTION"
714 -S, --format-sort SORTORDER Sort the formats by the fields given, see
715 "Sorting Formats" for more details
716 --S-force, --format-sort-force Force user specified sort order to have
717 precedence over all fields, see "Sorting
718 Formats" for more details
719 --no-format-sort-force Some fields have precedence over the user
720 specified sort order (default), see
721 "Sorting Formats" for more details
722 --video-multistreams Allow multiple video streams to be merged
724 --no-video-multistreams Only one video stream is downloaded for
725 each output file (default)
726 --audio-multistreams Allow multiple audio streams to be merged
728 --no-audio-multistreams Only one audio stream is downloaded for
729 each output file (default)
730 --prefer-free-formats Prefer video formats with free containers
731 over non-free ones of same quality. Use
732 with "-S ext" to strictly prefer free
733 containers irrespective of quality
734 --no-prefer-free-formats Don't give any special preference to free
736 --check-formats Check that the selected formats are
737 actually downloadable
738 --check-all-formats Check all formats for whether they are
739 actually downloadable
740 --no-check-formats Do not check that the formats are actually
742 -F, --list-formats List available formats of each video.
743 Simulate unless --no-simulate is used
744 --merge-output-format FORMAT If a merge is required (e.g.
745 bestvideo+bestaudio), output to given
746 container format. One of mkv, mp4, ogg,
747 webm, flv. Ignored if no merge is required
750 --write-subs Write subtitle file
751 --no-write-subs Do not write subtitle file (default)
752 --write-auto-subs Write automatically generated subtitle file
753 (Alias: --write-automatic-subs)
754 --no-write-auto-subs Do not write auto-generated subtitles
755 (default) (Alias: --no-write-automatic-subs)
756 --list-subs List available subtitles of each video.
757 Simulate unless --no-simulate is used
758 --sub-format FORMAT Subtitle format, accepts formats
759 preference, for example: "srt" or
761 --sub-langs LANGS Languages of the subtitles to download (can
762 be regex) or "all" separated by commas.
763 (Eg: --sub-langs "en.*,ja") You can prefix
764 the language code with a "-" to exempt it
765 from the requested languages. (Eg: --sub-
766 langs all,-live_chat) Use --list-subs for a
767 list of available language tags
769 ## Authentication Options:
770 -u, --username USERNAME Login with this account ID
771 -p, --password PASSWORD Account password. If this option is left
772 out, yt-dlp will ask interactively
773 -2, --twofactor TWOFACTOR Two-factor authentication code
774 -n, --netrc Use .netrc authentication data
775 --netrc-location PATH Location of .netrc authentication data;
776 either the path or its containing
777 directory. Defaults to ~/.netrc
778 --video-password PASSWORD Video password (vimeo, youku)
779 --ap-mso MSO Adobe Pass multiple-system operator (TV
780 provider) identifier, use --ap-list-mso for
781 a list of available MSOs
782 --ap-username USERNAME Multiple-system operator account login
783 --ap-password PASSWORD Multiple-system operator account password.
784 If this option is left out, yt-dlp will ask
786 --ap-list-mso List all supported multiple-system
789 ## Post-Processing Options:
790 -x, --extract-audio Convert video files to audio-only files
791 (requires ffmpeg and ffprobe)
792 --audio-format FORMAT Specify audio format to convert the audio
793 to when -x is used. Currently supported
794 formats are: best (default) or one of
795 best|aac|flac|mp3|m4a|opus|vorbis|wav
796 --audio-quality QUALITY Specify ffmpeg audio quality, insert a
797 value between
0 (best) and
10 (worst) for
798 VBR or a specific bitrate like
128K
800 --remux-video FORMAT Remux the video into another container if
801 necessary (currently supported: mp4|mkv|flv
802 |webm|mov|avi|mp3|mka|m4a|ogg|opus). If
803 target container does not support the
804 video/audio codec, remuxing will fail. You
805 can specify multiple rules; Eg.
806 "aac>m4a/mov>mp4/mkv" will remux aac to
807 m4a, mov to mp4 and anything else to mkv.
808 --recode-video FORMAT Re-encode the video into another format if
809 re-encoding is necessary. The syntax and
810 supported formats are the same as --remux-video
811 --postprocessor-args NAME:ARGS Give these arguments to the postprocessors.
812 Specify the postprocessor/executable name
813 and the arguments separated by a colon ":"
814 to give the argument to the specified
815 postprocessor/executable. Supported PP are:
816 Merger, ModifyChapters, SplitChapters,
817 ExtractAudio, VideoRemuxer, VideoConvertor,
818 Metadata, EmbedSubtitle, EmbedThumbnail,
819 SubtitlesConvertor, ThumbnailsConvertor,
820 FixupStretched, FixupM4a, FixupM3u8,
821 FixupTimestamp and FixupDuration. The
822 supported executables are: AtomicParsley,
823 FFmpeg and FFprobe. You can also specify
824 "PP+EXE:ARGS" to give the arguments to the
825 specified executable only when being used
826 by the specified postprocessor.
827 Additionally, for ffmpeg/ffprobe, "_i"/"_o"
828 can be appended to the prefix optionally
829 followed by a number to pass the argument
830 before the specified input/output file. Eg:
831 --ppa "Merger+ffmpeg_i1:-v quiet". You can
832 use this option multiple times to give
833 different arguments to different
834 postprocessors. (Alias: --ppa)
835 -k, --keep-video Keep the intermediate video file on disk
836 after post-processing
837 --no-keep-video Delete the intermediate video file after
838 post-processing (default)
839 --post-overwrites Overwrite post-processed files (default)
840 --no-post-overwrites Do not overwrite post-processed files
841 --embed-subs Embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4,
843 --no-embed-subs Do not embed subtitles (default)
844 --embed-thumbnail Embed thumbnail in the video as cover art
845 --no-embed-thumbnail Do not embed thumbnail (default)
846 --embed-metadata Embed metadata to the video file. Also adds
847 chapters to file unless --no-add-chapters
848 is used (Alias: --add-metadata)
849 --no-embed-metadata Do not add metadata to file (default)
850 (Alias: --no-add-metadata)
851 --embed-chapters Add chapter markers to the video file
852 (Alias: --add-chapters)
853 --no-embed-chapters Do not add chapter markers (default)
854 (Alias: --no-add-chapters)
855 --parse-metadata FROM:TO Parse additional metadata like title/artist
856 from other fields; see "MODIFYING METADATA"
858 --replace-in-metadata FIELDS REGEX REPLACE
859 Replace text in a metadata field using the
860 given regex. This option can be used
862 --xattrs Write metadata to the video file's xattrs
863 (using dublin core and xdg standards)
864 --fixup POLICY Automatically correct known faults of the
865 file. One of never (do nothing), warn (only
866 emit a warning), detect_or_warn (the
867 default; fix file if we can, warn
868 otherwise), force (try fixing even if file
870 --ffmpeg-location PATH Location of the ffmpeg binary; either the
871 path to the binary or its containing
873 --exec CMD Execute a command on the file after
874 downloading and post-processing. Same
875 syntax as the output template can be used
876 to pass any field as arguments to the
877 command. An additional field "filepath"
878 that contains the final path of the
879 downloaded file is also available. If no
880 fields are passed, %(filepath)q is appended
881 to the end of the command. This option can
882 be used multiple times
883 --no-exec Remove any previously defined --exec
884 --exec-before-download CMD Execute a command before the actual
885 download. The syntax is the same as --exec
886 but "filepath" is not available. This
887 option can be used multiple times
888 --no-exec-before-download Remove any previously defined
889 --exec-before-download
890 --convert-subs FORMAT Convert the subtitles to another format
891 (currently supported: srt|vtt|ass|lrc)
892 (Alias: --convert-subtitles)
893 --convert-thumbnails FORMAT Convert the thumbnails to another format
894 (currently supported: jpg|png)
895 --split-chapters Split video into multiple files based on
896 internal chapters. The "chapter:" prefix
897 can be used with "--paths" and "--output"
898 to set the output filename for the split
899 files. See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details
900 --no-split-chapters Do not split video based on chapters
902 --remove-chapters REGEX Remove chapters whose title matches the
903 given regular expression. Time ranges
904 prefixed by a "*" can also be used in place
905 of chapters to remove the specified range.
906 Eg: --remove-chapters "*
10:
15-
15:
00"
907 --remove-chapters "intro". This option can
908 be used multiple times
909 --no-remove-chapters Do not remove any chapters from the file
911 --force-keyframes-at-cuts Force keyframes around the chapters before
912 removing/splitting them. Requires a
913 reencode and thus is very slow, but the
914 resulting video may have fewer artifacts
916 --no-force-keyframes-at-cuts Do not force keyframes around the chapters
917 when cutting/splitting (default)
918 --use-postprocessor NAME[:ARGS] The (case sensitive) name of plugin
919 postprocessors to be enabled, and
920 (optionally) arguments to be passed to it,
921 seperated by a colon ":". ARGS are a
922 semicolon ";" delimited list of NAME=VALUE.
923 The "when" argument determines when the
924 postprocessor is invoked. It can be one of
925 "pre_process" (after extraction),
926 "before_dl" (before video download),
927 "post_process" (after video download;
928 default) or "after_move" (after moving file
929 to their final locations). This option can
930 be used multiple times to add different
933 ## SponsorBlock Options:
934 Make chapter entries for, or remove various segments (sponsor,
935 introductions, etc.) from downloaded YouTube videos using the
936 [SponsorBlock API](https://sponsor.ajay.app)
938 --sponsorblock-mark CATS SponsorBlock categories to create chapters
939 for, separated by commas. Available
940 categories are all, sponsor, intro, outro,
941 selfpromo, interaction, preview,
942 music_offtopic. You can prefix the category
943 with a "-" to exempt it. See
944 https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/index.php/Segment_Categories
945 for description of the categories. Eg:
946 --sponsorblock-query all,-preview
947 --sponsorblock-remove CATS SponsorBlock categories to be removed from
948 the video file, separated by commas. If a
949 category is present in both mark and
950 remove, remove takes precedence. The syntax
951 and available categories are the same as
952 for --sponsorblock-mark
953 --sponsorblock-chapter-title TEMPLATE
954 The title template for SponsorBlock
955 chapters created by --sponsorblock-mark.
956 The same syntax as the output template is
957 used, but the only available fields are
958 start_time, end_time, category, categories,
959 name, category_names. Defaults to
960 "[SponsorBlock]: %(category_names)l"
961 --no-sponsorblock Disable both --sponsorblock-mark and
962 --sponsorblock-remove
963 --sponsorblock-api URL SponsorBlock API location, defaults to
964 https://sponsor.ajay.app
966 ## Extractor Options:
967 --extractor-retries RETRIES Number of retries for known extractor
968 errors (default is
3), or "infinite"
969 --allow-dynamic-mpd Process dynamic DASH manifests (default)
970 (Alias: --no-ignore-dynamic-mpd)
971 --ignore-dynamic-mpd Do not process dynamic DASH manifests
972 (Alias: --no-allow-dynamic-mpd)
973 --hls-split-discontinuity Split HLS playlists to different formats at
974 discontinuities such as ad breaks
975 --no-hls-split-discontinuity Do not split HLS playlists to different
976 formats at discontinuities such as ad
978 --extractor-args KEY:ARGS Pass these arguments to the extractor. See
979 "EXTRACTOR ARGUMENTS" for details. You can
980 use this option multiple times to give
981 arguments for different extractors
985 You can configure yt-dlp by placing any supported command line option to a configuration file. The configuration is loaded from the following locations:
987 1. **Main Configuration**: The file given by
`--config-location`
988 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.
989 1. **Home Configuration**:
`yt-dlp.conf` in the home path given by
`-P "home:<path>"`, or in the current directory if no such path is given
990 1. **User Configuration**:
991 * `%XDG_CONFIG_HOME%/yt-dlp/config` (recommended on Linux/macOS)
992 * `%XDG_CONFIG_HOME%/yt-dlp.conf`
993 * `%APPDATA%/yt-dlp/config` (recommended on Windows)
994 * `%APPDATA%/yt-dlp/config.txt`
996 * `~/yt-dlp.conf.txt`
998 `%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%`
999 1. **System Configuration**:
`/etc/yt-dlp.conf`
1001 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:
1003 # Lines starting with # are comments
1005 # Always extract audio
1008 # Do not copy the mtime
1012 --proxy 127.0.0.1:3128
1014 # Save all videos under YouTube directory in your home directory
1015 -o ~/YouTube/%(title)s.%(ext)s
1018 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`.
1020 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.
1022 ### Authentication with `.netrc` file
1024 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:
1027 chmod a-rwx,u+rw $HOME/.netrc
1029 After that you can add credentials for an extractor in the following format, where *extractor* is the name of the extractor in lowercase:
1031 machine <extractor> login <username> password <password>
1035 machine youtube login myaccount@gmail.com password my_youtube_password
1036 machine twitch login my_twitch_account_name password my_twitch_password
1038 To activate authentication with the
`.netrc` file you should pass
`--netrc` to yt-dlp or place it in the [configuration file](#configuration).
1040 The default location of the .netrc file is
`$HOME` (
`~`) in UNIX. On Windows, it is
`%HOME%` if present,
`%USERPROFILE%` (generally
`C:\Users\<user name>`) or
`%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%`
1044 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.
1046 **tl;dr:** [navigate me to examples](#output-template-examples).
1048 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).
1050 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.
1052 The field names themselves (the part inside the parenthesis) can also have some special formatting:
1053 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
1054 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`
1055 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`
1056 1. **Alternatives**: Alternate fields can be specified seperated with a
`,`. Eg:
`%(release_date>%Y,upload_date>%Y|Unknown)s`
1057 1. **Default**: A literal default value can be specified for when the field is empty using a
`|` seperator. This overrides
`--output-na-template`. Eg:
`%(uploader|Unknown)s`
1058 1. **More Conversions**: In addition to the normal format types
`diouxXeEfFgGcrs`,
`B`,
`j`,
`l`,
`q` can be used for converting to **B**ytes, **j**son (flag
`#` for pretty-printing), a comma seperated **l**ist (flag
`#` for
`\n` newline-seperated) and a string **q**uoted for the terminal (flag
`#` to split a list into different arguments), respectively
1059 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
1061 To summarize, the general syntax for a field is:
1063 %(name[.keys][addition][>strf][,alternate][|default])[flags][width][.precision][length]type
1066 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`. 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 (except default) 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.
1068 The available fields are:
1070 - `id` (string): Video identifier
1071 - `title` (string): Video title
1072 - `url` (string): Video URL
1073 - `ext` (string): Video filename extension
1074 - `alt_title` (string): A secondary title of the video
1075 - `description` (string): The description of the video
1076 - `display_id` (string): An alternative identifier for the video
1077 - `uploader` (string): Full name of the video uploader
1078 - `license` (string): License name the video is licensed under
1079 - `creator` (string): The creator of the video
1080 - `timestamp` (numeric): UNIX timestamp of the moment the video became available
1081 - `upload_date` (string): Video upload date (YYYYMMDD)
1082 - `release_date` (string): The date (YYYYMMDD) when the video was released
1083 - `release_timestamp` (numeric): UNIX timestamp of the moment the video was released
1084 - `uploader_id` (string): Nickname or id of the video uploader
1085 - `channel` (string): Full name of the channel the video is uploaded on
1086 - `channel_id` (string): Id of the channel
1087 - `location` (string): Physical location where the video was filmed
1088 - `duration` (numeric): Length of the video in seconds
1089 - `duration_string` (string): Length of the video (HH:mm:ss)
1090 - `view_count` (numeric): How many users have watched the video on the platform
1091 - `like_count` (numeric): Number of positive ratings of the video
1092 - `dislike_count` (numeric): Number of negative ratings of the video
1093 - `repost_count` (numeric): Number of reposts of the video
1094 - `average_rating` (numeric): Average rating give by users, the scale used depends on the webpage
1095 - `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)
1096 - `age_limit` (numeric): Age restriction for the video (years)
1097 - `live_status` (string): One of 'is_live', 'was_live', 'is_upcoming', 'not_live'
1098 - `is_live` (boolean): Whether this video is a live stream or a fixed-length video
1099 - `was_live` (boolean): Whether this video was originally a live stream
1100 - `playable_in_embed` (string): Whether this video is allowed to play in embedded players on other sites
1101 - `availability` (string): Whether the video is 'private', 'premium_only', 'subscriber_only', 'needs_auth', 'unlisted' or 'public'
1102 - `start_time` (numeric): Time in seconds where the reproduction should start, as specified in the URL
1103 - `end_time` (numeric): Time in seconds where the reproduction should end, as specified in the URL
1104 - `format` (string): A human-readable description of the format
1105 - `format_id` (string): Format code specified by
`--format`
1106 - `format_note` (string): Additional info about the format
1107 - `width` (numeric): Width of the video
1108 - `height` (numeric): Height of the video
1109 - `resolution` (string): Textual description of width and height
1110 - `tbr` (numeric): Average bitrate of audio and video in KBit/s
1111 - `abr` (numeric): Average audio bitrate in KBit/s
1112 - `acodec` (string): Name of the audio codec in use
1113 - `asr` (numeric): Audio sampling rate in Hertz
1114 - `vbr` (numeric): Average video bitrate in KBit/s
1115 - `fps` (numeric): Frame rate
1116 - `dynamic_range` (string): The dynamic range of the video
1117 - `vcodec` (string): Name of the video codec in use
1118 - `container` (string): Name of the container format
1119 - `filesize` (numeric): The number of bytes, if known in advance
1120 - `filesize_approx` (numeric): An estimate for the number of bytes
1121 - `protocol` (string): The protocol that will be used for the actual download
1122 - `extractor` (string): Name of the extractor
1123 - `extractor_key` (string): Key name of the extractor
1124 - `epoch` (numeric): Unix epoch when creating the file
1125 - `autonumber` (numeric): Number that will be increased with each download, starting at
`--autonumber-start`
1126 - `n_entries` (numeric): Total number of extracted items in the playlist
1127 - `playlist` (string): Name or id of the playlist that contains the video
1128 - `playlist_index` (numeric): Index of the video in the playlist padded with leading zeros according the final index
1129 - `playlist_autonumber` (numeric): Position of the video in the playlist download queue padded with leading zeros according to the total length of the playlist
1130 - `playlist_id` (string): Playlist identifier
1131 - `playlist_title` (string): Playlist title
1132 - `playlist_uploader` (string): Full name of the playlist uploader
1133 - `playlist_uploader_id` (string): Nickname or id of the playlist uploader
1134 - `webpage_url` (string): A URL to the video webpage which if given to yt-dlp should allow to get the same result again
1135 - `original_url` (string): The URL given by the user (or same as
`webpage_url` for playlist entries)
1137 Available for the video that belongs to some logical chapter or section:
1139 - `chapter` (string): Name or title of the chapter the video belongs to
1140 - `chapter_number` (numeric): Number of the chapter the video belongs to
1141 - `chapter_id` (string): Id of the chapter the video belongs to
1143 Available for the video that is an episode of some series or programme:
1145 - `series` (string): Title of the series or programme the video episode belongs to
1146 - `season` (string): Title of the season the video episode belongs to
1147 - `season_number` (numeric): Number of the season the video episode belongs to
1148 - `season_id` (string): Id of the season the video episode belongs to
1149 - `episode` (string): Title of the video episode
1150 - `episode_number` (numeric): Number of the video episode within a season
1151 - `episode_id` (string): Id of the video episode
1153 Available for the media that is a track or a part of a music album:
1155 - `track` (string): Title of the track
1156 - `track_number` (numeric): Number of the track within an album or a disc
1157 - `track_id` (string): Id of the track
1158 - `artist` (string): Artist(s) of the track
1159 - `genre` (string): Genre(s) of the track
1160 - `album` (string): Title of the album the track belongs to
1161 - `album_type` (string): Type of the album
1162 - `album_artist` (string): List of all artists appeared on the album
1163 - `disc_number` (numeric): Number of the disc or other physical medium the track belongs to
1164 - `release_year` (numeric): Year (YYYY) when the album was released
1166 Available for
`chapter:` prefix when using
`--split-chapters` for videos with internal chapters:
1168 - `section_title` (string): Title of the chapter
1169 - `section_number` (numeric): Number of the chapter within the file
1170 - `section_start` (numeric): Start time of the chapter in seconds
1171 - `section_end` (numeric): End time of the chapter in seconds
1173 Available only when used in
`--print`:
1175 - `urls` (string): The URLs of all requested formats, one in each line
1176 - `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
1178 Available only in
`--sponsorblock-chapter-title`:
1180 - `start_time` (numeric): Start time of the chapter in seconds
1181 - `end_time` (numeric): End time of the chapter in seconds
1182 - `categories` (list): The SponsorBlock categories the chapter belongs to
1183 - `category` (string): The smallest SponsorBlock category the chapter belongs to
1184 - `category_names` (list): Friendly names of the categories
1185 - `name` (string): Friendly name of the smallest category
1187 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.
1189 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).
1191 **Tip**: Look at the
`-j` output to identify which fields are available for the particular URL
1193 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`.
1195 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.
1197 To use percent literals in an output template use
`%%`. To output to stdout use
`-o -`.
1199 The current default template is
`%(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s`.
1201 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:
1203 #### Output template and Windows batch files
1205 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"`.
1207 #### Output template examples
1209 Note that on Windows you need to use double quotes instead of single.
1212 $ yt-dlp --get-filename -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' BaW_jenozKc
1213 youtube-dl test video ''_ä↭𝕐.mp4 # All kinds of weird characters
1215 $ yt-dlp --get-filename -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' BaW_jenozKc --restrict-filenames
1216 youtube-dl_test_video_.mp4 # A simple file name
1218 # Download YouTube playlist videos in separate directory indexed by video order in a playlist
1219 $ yt-dlp -o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re
1221 # Download YouTube playlist videos in separate directories according to their uploaded year
1222 $ yt-dlp -o '%(upload_date>%Y)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re
1224 # Download all playlists of YouTube channel/user keeping each playlist in separate directory:
1225 $ yt-dlp -o '%(uploader)s/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLinuxFoundation/playlists
1227 # Download Udemy course keeping each chapter in separate directory under MyVideos directory in your home
1228 $ 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/
1230 # Download entire series season keeping each series and each season in separate directory under C:/MyVideos
1231 $ 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
1233 # Stream the video being downloaded to stdout
1234 $ yt-dlp -o - BaW_jenozKc
1239 By default, yt-dlp tries to download the best available quality if you **don't** pass any options.
1240 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`.
1242 **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.
1244 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.
1246 **tl;dr:** [navigate me to examples](#format-selection-examples).
1248 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.
1250 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.
1252 You can also use special names to select particular edge case formats:
1254 - `all`: Select **all formats** separately
1255 - `mergeall`: Select and **merge all formats** (Must be used with
`--audio-multistreams`,
`--video-multistreams` or both)
1256 - `b*`,
`best*`: Select the best quality format that **contains either** a video or an audio
1257 - `b`,
`best`: Select the best quality format that **contains both** video and audio. Equivalent to
`best*[vcodec!=none][acodec!=none]`
1258 - `bv`,
`bestvideo`: Select the best quality **video-only** format. Equivalent to
`best*[acodec=none]`
1259 - `bv*`,
`bestvideo*`: Select the best quality format that **contains video**. It may also contain audio. Equivalent to
`best*[vcodec!=none]`
1260 - `ba`,
`bestaudio`: Select the best quality **audio-only** format. Equivalent to
`best*[vcodec=none]`
1261 - `ba*`,
`bestaudio*`: Select the best quality format that **contains audio**. It may also contain video. Equivalent to
`best*[acodec!=none]`
1262 - `w*`,
`worst*`: Select the worst quality format that contains either a video or an audio
1263 - `w`,
`worst`: Select the worst quality format that contains both video and audio. Equivalent to
`worst*[vcodec!=none][acodec!=none]`
1264 - `wv`,
`worstvideo`: Select the worst quality video-only format. Equivalent to
`worst*[acodec=none]`
1265 - `wv*`,
`worstvideo*`: Select the worst quality format that contains video. It may also contain audio. Equivalent to
`worst*[vcodec!=none]`
1266 - `wa`,
`worstaudio`: Select the worst quality audio-only format. Equivalent to
`worst*[vcodec=none]`
1267 - `wa*`,
`worstaudio*`: Select the worst quality format that contains audio. It may also contain video. Equivalent to
`worst*[acodec!=none]`
1269 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
`-f best -S +size,+br,+res,+fps` instead of
`-f worst`. See [sorting formats](#sorting-formats) for more details.
1271 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.
1273 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.
1275 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`.
1277 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.
1279 **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
1281 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`.
1283 ## Filtering Formats
1285 You can also filter the video formats by putting a condition in brackets, as in
`-f "best[height=720]"` (or
`-f "[filesize>10M]"`).
1287 The following numeric meta fields can be used with comparisons
`<`,
`<=`,
`>`,
`>=`,
`=` (equals),
`!=` (not equals):
1289 - `filesize`: The number of bytes, if known in advance
1290 - `width`: Width of the video, if known
1291 - `height`: Height of the video, if known
1292 - `tbr`: Average bitrate of audio and video in KBit/s
1293 - `abr`: Average audio bitrate in KBit/s
1294 - `vbr`: Average video bitrate in KBit/s
1295 - `asr`: Audio sampling rate in Hertz
1298 Also filtering work for comparisons
`=` (equals),
`^=` (starts with),
`$=` (ends with),
`*=` (contains) and following string meta fields:
1300 - `ext`: File extension
1301 - `acodec`: Name of the audio codec in use
1302 - `vcodec`: Name of the video codec in use
1303 - `container`: Name of the container format
1304 - `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`)
1305 - `format_id`: A short description of the format
1306 - `language`: Language code
1308 Any string comparison may be prefixed with negation
`!` in order to produce an opposite comparison, e.g.
`!*=` (does not contain).
1310 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.
1312 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.
1314 Format selectors can also be grouped using parentheses, for example if you want to download the best mp4 and webm formats with a height lower than
480 you can use
`-f '(mp4,webm)[height<480]'`.
1318 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...`.
1320 The available fields are:
1322 - `hasvid`: Gives priority to formats that has a video stream
1323 - `hasaud`: Gives priority to formats that has a audio stream
1324 - `ie_pref`: The format preference as given by the extractor
1325 - `lang`: Language preference as given by the extractor
1326 - `quality`: The quality of the format as given by the extractor
1327 - `source`: Preference of the source as given by the extractor
1328 - `proto`: Protocol used for download (
`https`/
`ftps` >
`http`/
`ftp` >
`m3u8_native`/
`m3u8` >
`http_dash_segments`>
`websocket_frag` > other >
`mms`/
`rtsp` > unknown >
`f4f`/
`f4m`)
1329 - `vcodec`: Video Codec (
`av01` >
`vp9.2` >
`vp9` >
`h265` >
`h264` >
`vp8` >
`h263` >
`theora` > other > unknown)
1330 - `acodec`: Audio Codec (
`opus` >
`vorbis` >
`aac` >
`mp4a` >
`mp3` >
`eac3` >
`ac3` >
`dts` > other > unknown)
1331 - `codec`: Equivalent to
`vcodec,acodec`
1332 - `vext`: Video Extension (
`mp4` >
`webm` >
`flv` > other > unknown). If
`--prefer-free-formats` is used,
`webm` is prefered.
1333 - `aext`: Audio Extension (
`m4a` >
`aac` >
`mp3` >
`ogg` >
`opus` >
`webm` > other > unknown). If
`--prefer-free-formats` is used, the order changes to
`opus` >
`ogg` >
`webm` >
`m4a` >
`mp3` >
`aac`.
1334 - `ext`: Equivalent to
`vext,aext`
1335 - `filesize`: Exact filesize, if known in advance
1336 - `fs_approx`: Approximate filesize calculated from the manifests
1337 - `size`: Exact filesize if available, otherwise approximate filesize
1338 - `height`: Height of video
1339 - `width`: Width of video
1340 - `res`: Video resolution, calculated as the smallest dimension.
1341 - `fps`: Framerate of video
1342 - `hdr`: The dynamic range of the video (
`DV` >
`HDR12` >
`HDR10+` >
`HDR10` >
`HLG` >
`SDR`)
1343 - `tbr`: Total average bitrate in KBit/s
1344 - `vbr`: Average video bitrate in KBit/s
1345 - `abr`: Average audio bitrate in KBit/s
1346 - `br`: Equivalent to using
`tbr,vbr,abr`
1347 - `asr`: Audio sample rate in Hz
1349 **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.
1351 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.
1353 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.
1355 Note that the default has
`codec:vp9.2`; i.e.
`av1` is not prefered. Similarly, the default for hdr is
`hdr:12`; i.e. dolby vision is not prefered. 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.
1357 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`.
1359 **Tip**: You can use the
`-v -F` to see how the formats have been sorted (worst to best).
1361 ## Format Selection examples
1363 Note that on Windows you may need to use double quotes instead of single.
1366 # Download and merge the best video-only format and the best audio-only format,
1367 # or download the best combined format if video-only format is not available
1368 $ yt-dlp -f 'bv+ba/b'
1370 # Download best format that contains video,
1371 # and if it doesn't already have an audio stream, merge it with best audio-only format
1372 $ yt-dlp -f 'bv*+ba/b'
1377 # Download the best video-only format and the best audio-only format without merging them
1378 # For this case, an output template should be used since
1379 # by default, bestvideo and bestaudio will have the same file name.
1380 $ yt-dlp -f 'bv,ba' -o '%(title)s.f%(format_id)s.%(ext)s'
1382 # Download and merge the best format that has a video stream,
1383 # and all audio-only formats into one file
1384 $ yt-dlp -f 'bv*+mergeall[vcodec=none]' --audio-multistreams
1386 # Download and merge the best format that has a video stream,
1387 # and the best 2 audio-only formats into one file
1388 $ yt-dlp -f 'bv*+ba+ba.2' --audio-multistreams
1391 # The following examples show the old method (without -S) of format selection
1392 # and how to use -S to achieve a similar but (generally) better result
1394 # Download the worst video available (old method)
1395 $ yt-dlp -f 'wv*+wa/w'
1397 # Download the best video available but with the smallest resolution
1400 # Download the smallest video available
1401 $ yt-dlp -S '+size,+br'
1405 # Download the best mp4 video available, or the best video if no mp4 available
1406 $ yt-dlp -f 'bv*[ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[ext=mp4] / bv*+ba/b'
1408 # Download the best video with the best extension
1409 # (For video, mp4 > webm > flv. For audio, m4a > aac > mp3 ...)
1414 # Download the best video available but no better than 480p,
1415 # or the worst video if there is no video under 480p
1416 $ yt-dlp -f 'bv*[height<=480]+ba/b[height<=480] / wv*+ba/w'
1418 # Download the best video available with the largest height but no better than 480p,
1419 # or the best video with the smallest resolution if there is no video under 480p
1420 $ yt-dlp -S 'height:480'
1422 # Download the best video available with the largest resolution but no better than 480p,
1423 # or the best video with the smallest resolution if there is no video under 480p
1424 # Resolution is determined by using the smallest dimension.
1425 # So this works correctly for vertical videos as well
1426 $ yt-dlp -S 'res:480'
1430 # Download the best video (that also has audio) but no bigger than 50 MB,
1431 # or the worst video (that also has audio) if there is no video under 50 MB
1432 $ yt-dlp -f 'b[filesize<50M] / w'
1434 # Download largest video (that also has audio) but no bigger than 50 MB,
1435 # or the smallest video (that also has audio) if there is no video under 50 MB
1436 $ yt-dlp -f 'b' -S 'filesize:50M'
1438 # Download best video (that also has audio) that is closest in size to 50 MB
1439 $ yt-dlp -f 'b' -S 'filesize~50M'
1443 # Download best video available via direct link over HTTP/HTTPS protocol,
1444 # or the best video available via any protocol if there is no such video
1445 $ yt-dlp -f '(bv*+ba/b)[protocol^=http][protocol!*=dash] / (bv*+ba/b)'
1447 # Download best video available via the best protocol
1448 # (https/ftps > http/ftp > m3u8_native > m3u8 > http_dash_segments ...)
1453 # Download the best video with h264 codec, or the best video if there is no such video
1454 $ yt-dlp -f '(bv*+ba/b)[vcodec^=avc1] / (bv*+ba/b)'
1456 # Download the best video with best codec no better than h264,
1457 # or the best video with worst codec if there is no such video
1458 $ yt-dlp -S 'codec:h264'
1460 # Download the best video with worst codec no worse than h264,
1461 # or the best video with best codec if there is no such video
1462 $ yt-dlp -S '+codec:h264'
1466 # More complex examples
1468 # Download the best video no better than 720p preferring framerate greater than 30,
1469 # or the worst video (still preferring framerate greater than 30) if there is no such video
1470 $ yt-dlp -f '((bv*[fps>30]/bv*)[height<=720]/(wv*[fps>30]/wv*)) + ba / (b[fps>30]/b)[height<=720]/(w[fps>30]/w)'
1472 # Download the video with the largest resolution no better than 720p,
1473 # or the video with the smallest resolution available if there is no such video,
1474 # preferring larger framerate for formats with the same resolution
1475 $ yt-dlp -S 'res:720,fps'
1479 # Download the video with smallest resolution no worse than 480p,
1480 # or the video with the largest resolution available if there is no such video,
1481 # preferring better codec and then larger total bitrate for the same resolution
1482 $ yt-dlp -S '+res:480,codec,br'
1485 # MODIFYING METADATA
1487 The metadata obtained by the extractors can be modified by using
`--parse-metadata` and
`--replace-in-metadata`
1489 `--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.
1491 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.
1493 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`.
1495 This option also has a few special uses:
1496 * 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
1497 * 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". Any value set to the
`meta_` field will overwrite all default values.
1499 For reference, these are the fields yt-dlp adds by default to the file metadata:
1501 Metadata fields|From
1503 `title`|
`track` or
`title`
1504 `date`|
`upload_date`
1505 `description`,
`synopsis`|
`description`
1506 `purl`,
`comment`|
`webpage_url`
1507 `track`|
`track_number`
1508 `artist`|
`artist`,
`creator`,
`uploader` or
`uploader_id`
1511 `album_artist`|
`album_artist`
1512 `disc`|
`disc_number`
1514 `season_number`|
`season_number`
1515 `episode_id`|
`episode` or
`episode_id`
1516 `episode_sort`|
`episode_number`
1517 `language` of each stream|From the format's
`language`
1518 **Note**: The file format may not support some of these fields
1521 ## Modifying metadata examples
1523 Note that on Windows you may need to use double quotes instead of single.
1526 # Interpret the title as "Artist - Title"
1527 $ yt-dlp --parse-metadata 'title:%(artist)s - %(title)s'
1530 $ yt-dlp --parse-metadata 'description:Artist - (?P<artist>.+)'
1532 # Set title as "Series name S01E05"
1533 $ yt-dlp --parse-metadata '%(series)s S%(season_number)02dE%(episode_number)02d:%(title)s'
1535 # Set "comment" field in video metadata using description instead of webpage_url
1536 $ yt-dlp --parse-metadata 'description:(?s)(?P<meta_comment>.+)' --add-metadata
1538 # Remove "formats" field from the infojson by setting it to an empty string
1539 $ yt-dlp --parse-metadata ':(?P<formats>)' -j
1541 # Replace all spaces and "_" in title and uploader with a `-`
1542 $ yt-dlp --replace-in-metadata 'title,uploader' '[ _]' '-'
1546 # EXTRACTOR ARGUMENTS
1548 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_agegate,web;include_live_dash" --extractor-args "funimation:version=uncut"`
1550 The following extractors use this feature:
1553 * `skip`:
`hls` or
`dash` (or both) to skip download of the respective manifests
1554 * `player_client`: Clients to extract video data from. The main clients are
`web`,
`android`,
`ios`,
`mweb`. These also have
`_music`,
`_embedded`,
`_agegate`, and
`_creator` variants (Eg:
`web_embedded`) (
`mweb` has only
`_agegate`). By default,
`android,web` is used, but the agegate and creator variants are added as required for age-gated videos. Similarly the music variants are added for
`music.youtube.com` urls. You can also use
`all` to use all the clients
1555 * `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
1556 * `include_live_dash`: Include live dash formats (These formats don't download properly)
1557 * `comment_sort`:
`top` or
`new` (default) - choose comment sorting mode (on YouTube's side)
1558 * `max_comments`: Maximum amount of comments to download (default all)
1559 * `max_comment_depth`: Maximum depth for nested comments. YouTube supports depths
1 or
2 (default)
1561 #### youtubetab (YouTube playlists, channels, feeds, etc.)
1562 * `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)
1565 * `language`: Languages to extract. Eg:
`funimation:language=english,japanese`
1566 * `version`: The video version to extract -
`uncut` or
`simulcast`
1569 * `language`: Languages to extract. Eg:
`crunchyroll:language=jaJp`
1570 * `hardsub`: Which hard-sub versions to extract. Eg:
`crunchyroll:hardsub=None,enUS`
1573 * `video_types`: Types of videos to download - one or more of
`episodes`,
`movies`,
`clips`,
`trailers`
1575 NOTE: These options may be changed/removed in the future without concern for backward compatibility
1580 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
1582 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`.
1584 See [ytdlp_plugins](ytdlp_plugins) for example plugins.
1586 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
1588 If you are a plugin author, add
[ytdlp-plugins](https://github.com/topics/ytdlp-plugins) as a topic to your repository for discoverability
1594 yt-dlp makes the best effort to be a good command-line program, and thus should be callable from any programming language.
1596 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.
1598 From a Python program, you can embed yt-dlp in a more powerful fashion, like this:
1601 from yt_dlp import YoutubeDL
1603 ydl_opts = {'format': 'bestaudio'}
1604 with YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
1605 ydl.download(['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc'])
1608 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#L154-L452).
1610 Here's a more complete example demonstrating various functionality:
1618 def debug(self, msg):
1619 # For compatability with youtube-dl, both debug and info are passed into debug
1620 # You can distinguish them by the prefix '[debug] '
1621 if msg.startswith('[debug] '):
1626 def info(self, msg):
1629 def warning(self, msg):
1632 def error(self, msg):
1636 # ℹ️ See the docstring of yt_dlp.postprocessor.common.PostProcessor
1637 class MyCustomPP(yt_dlp.postprocessor.PostProcessor):
1638 # ℹ️ See docstring of yt_dlp.postprocessor.common.PostProcessor.run
1639 def run(self, info):
1640 self.to_screen('Doing stuff')
1644 # ℹ️ See "progress_hooks" in the docstring of yt_dlp.YoutubeDL
1646 if d['status'] == 'finished':
1647 print('Done downloading, now converting ...')
1650 def format_selector(ctx):
1651 """ Select the best video and the best audio that won't result in an mkv.
1652 This is just an example and does not handle all cases """
1654 # formats are already sorted worst to best
1655 formats = ctx.get('formats')[::-1]
1657 # acodec='none' means there is no audio
1658 best_video = next(f for f in formats
1659 if f['vcodec'] != 'none' and f['acodec'] == 'none')
1661 # find compatible audio extension
1662 audio_ext = {'mp4': 'm4a', 'webm': 'webm'}[best_video['ext']]
1663 # vcodec='none' means there is no video
1664 best_audio = next(f for f in formats if (
1665 f['acodec'] != 'none' and f['vcodec'] == 'none' and f['ext'] == audio_ext))
1668 # These are the minimum required fields for a merged format
1669 'format_id': f'{best_video["format_id"]}+{best_audio["format_id"]}',
1670 'ext': best_video['ext'],
1671 'requested_formats': [best_video, best_audio],
1672 # Must be + seperated list of protocols
1673 'protocol': f'{best_video["protocol"]}+{best_audio["protocol"]}'
1677 # ℹ️ See docstring of yt_dlp.YoutubeDL for a description of the options
1679 'format': format_selector,
1680 'postprocessors': [{
1681 # Embed metadata in video using ffmpeg.
1682 # ℹ️ See yt_dlp.postprocessor.FFmpegMetadataPP for the arguments it accepts
1683 'key': 'FFmpegMetadata',
1684 'add_chapters': True,
1685 'add_metadata': True,
1687 'logger': MyLogger(),
1688 'progress_hooks': [my_hook],
1692 # Add custom headers
1693 yt_dlp.utils.std_headers.update({'Referer': 'https://www.google.com'})
1695 # ℹ️ See the public functions in yt_dlp.YoutubeDL for for other available functions.
1696 # Eg: "ydl.download", "ydl.download_with_info_file"
1697 with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
1698 ydl.add_post_processor(MyCustomPP())
1699 info = ydl.extract_info('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc')
1701 # ℹ️ ydl.sanitize_info makes the info json-serializable
1702 print(json.dumps(ydl.sanitize_info(info)))
1705 **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 above
1708 # DEPRECATED OPTIONS
1710 These are all the deprecated options and the current alternative to achieve the same effect
1712 #### Redundant options
1713 While these options are redundant, they are still expected to be used due to their ease of use
1715 --get-description --print description
1716 --get-duration --print duration_string
1717 --get-filename --print filename
1718 --get-format --print format
1720 --get-thumbnail --print thumbnail
1721 -e, --get-title --print title
1722 -g, --get-url --print urls
1723 -j, --dump-json --print "%()j"
1724 --match-title REGEX --match-filter "title ~= (?i)REGEX"
1725 --reject-title REGEX --match-filter "title !~= (?i)REGEX"
1726 --min-views COUNT --match-filter "view_count >=? COUNT"
1727 --max-views COUNT --match-filter "view_count <=? COUNT"
1730 #### Not recommended
1731 While these options still work, their use is not recommended since there are other alternatives to achieve the same
1733 --all-formats -f all
1734 --all-subs --sub-langs all --write-subs
1735 --print-json -j --no-simulate
1736 --autonumber-size NUMBER Use string formatting. Eg: %(autonumber)
03d
1737 --autonumber-start NUMBER Use internal field formatting like %(autonumber+NUMBER)s
1738 --id -o "%(id)s.%(ext)s"
1739 --metadata-from-title FORMAT --parse-metadata "%(title)s:FORMAT"
1740 --hls-prefer-native --downloader "m3u8:native"
1741 --hls-prefer-ffmpeg --downloader "m3u8:ffmpeg"
1742 --list-formats-old --compat-options list-formats (Alias: --no-list-formats-as-table)
1743 --list-formats-as-table --compat-options -list-formats [Default] (Alias: --no-list-formats-old)
1744 --youtube-skip-dash-manifest --extractor-args "youtube:skip=dash" (Alias: --no-youtube-include-dash-manifest)
1745 --youtube-skip-hls-manifest --extractor-args "youtube:skip=hls" (Alias: --no-youtube-include-hls-manifest)
1746 --youtube-include-dash-manifest Default (Alias: --no-youtube-skip-dash-manifest)
1747 --youtube-include-hls-manifest Default (Alias: --no-youtube-skip-hls-manifest)
1750 #### Developer options
1751 These options are not intended to be used by the end-user
1753 --test Download only part of video for testing extractors
1754 --youtube-print-sig-code For testing youtube signatures
1755 --allow-unplayable-formats List unplayable formats also
1756 --no-allow-unplayable-formats Default
1760 These are aliases that are no longer documented for various reasons
1762 --avconv-location --ffmpeg-location
1763 --cn-verification-proxy URL --geo-verification-proxy URL
1764 --dump-headers --print-traffic
1765 --dump-intermediate-pages --dump-pages
1766 --force-write-download-archive --force-write-archive
1767 --load-info --load-info-json
1768 --no-split-tracks --no-split-chapters
1769 --no-write-srt --no-write-subs
1770 --prefer-unsecure --prefer-insecure
1771 --rate-limit RATE --limit-rate RATE
1772 --split-tracks --split-chapters
1773 --srt-lang LANGS --sub-langs LANGS
1774 --trim-file-names LENGTH --trim-filenames LENGTH
1775 --write-srt --write-subs
1776 --yes-overwrites --force-overwrites
1778 #### Sponskrub Options
1779 Support for
[SponSkrub](https://github.com/faissaloo/SponSkrub) has been deprecated in favor of
`--sponsorblock`
1781 --sponskrub --sponsorblock-mark all
1782 --no-sponskrub --no-sponsorblock
1783 --sponskrub-cut --sponsorblock-remove all
1784 --no-sponskrub-cut --sponsorblock-remove -all
1785 --sponskrub-force Not applicable
1786 --no-sponskrub-force Not applicable
1787 --sponskrub-location Not applicable
1788 --sponskrub-args Not applicable
1790 #### No longer supported
1791 These options may no longer work as intended
1793 --prefer-avconv avconv is not officially supported by yt-dlp (Alias: --no-prefer-ffmpeg)
1794 --prefer-ffmpeg Default (Alias: --no-prefer-avconv)
1795 -C, --call-home Not implemented
1796 --no-call-home Default
1797 --include-ads No longer supported
1798 --no-include-ads Default
1799 --write-annotations No supported site has annotations now
1800 --no-write-annotations Default
1803 These options were deprecated since
2014 and have now been entirely removed
1805 -A, --auto-number -o "%(autonumber)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"
1806 -t, --title -o "%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"
1807 -l, --literal -o accepts literal names
1810 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)
1813 For FAQ see the
[youtube-dl README](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#faq)
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