* **Cookies from browser**: Cookies can be automatically extracted from all major web browsers using `--cookies-from-browser BROWSER[+KEYRING][:PROFILE]`
+* **Download time range**: Videos can be downloaded partially based on either timestamps or chapters using `--download-sections`
+
* **Split video by chapters**: Videos can be split into multiple files based on chapters using `--split-chapters`
* **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
* **New and fixed extractors**: Many new extractors have been added and a lot of existing ones have been fixed. See the [changelog](Changelog.md) or the [list of supported sites](supportedsites.md)
-* **New MSOs**: Philo, Spectrum, SlingTV, Cablevision, RCN
+* **New MSOs**: Philo, Spectrum, SlingTV, Cablevision, RCN etc.
* **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
--list-extractors List all supported extractors and exit
--extractor-descriptions Output descriptions of all supported
extractors and exit
- --force-generic-extractor Force extraction to use the generic
- extractor
+ --force-generic-extractor Force extraction to use the generic extractor
--default-search PREFIX Use this prefix for unqualified URLs. Eg:
"gvsearch2:python" downloads two videos from
google videos for the search term "python".
aliases; so be carefull to avoid defining
recursive options. As a safety measure, each
alias may be triggered a maximum of 100
- times. This option can be used multiple
- times
+ times. This option can be used multiple times
## Network Options:
--proxy URL Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy. To
explicitly provided two-letter ISO 3166-2
country code
--geo-bypass-ip-block IP_BLOCK Force bypass geographic restriction with
- explicitly provided IP block in CIDR
- notation
+ explicitly provided IP block in CIDR notation
## Video Selection:
--playlist-start NUMBER Playlist video to start at (default is 1)
--no-hls-use-mpegts Do not use the mpegts container for HLS
videos. This is default when not downloading
live streams
+ --download-sections REGEX Download only chapters whose title matches
+ the given regular expression. Time ranges
+ prefixed by a "*" can also be used in place
+ of chapters to download the specified range.
+ Eg: --download-sections "*10:15-15:00"
+ --download-sections "intro". Needs ffmpeg.
+ This option can be used multiple times to
+ download multiple sections
--downloader [PROTO:]NAME Name or path of the external downloader to
use (optionally) prefixed by the protocols
(http, ftp, m3u8, dash, rstp, rtmp, mms) to
modification time (default)
--no-mtime Do not use the Last-modified header to set
the file modification time
- --write-description Write video description to a .description
- file
+ --write-description Write video description to a .description file
--no-write-description Do not write video description (default)
--write-info-json Write video metadata to a .info.json file
(this may contain personal information)
extraction is known to be quick (Alias:
--no-get-comments)
--load-info-json FILE JSON file containing the video information
- (created with the "--write-info-json"
- option)
+ (created with the "--write-info-json" option)
--cookies FILE Netscape formatted file to read cookies from
and dump cookie jar in
--no-cookies Do not read/dump cookies from/to file
for decrypting Chromium cookies on Linux can
be (optionally) specified after the browser
name separated by a "+". Currently supported
- keyrings are: basictext, gnomekeyring,
- kwallet
+ keyrings are: basictext, gnomekeyring, kwallet
--no-cookies-from-browser Do not load cookies from browser (default)
--cache-dir DIR Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl
can store some downloaded information (such
## Thumbnail Options:
--write-thumbnail Write thumbnail image to disk
- --no-write-thumbnail Do not write thumbnail image to disk
- (default)
+ --no-write-thumbnail Do not write thumbnail image to disk (default)
--write-all-thumbnails Write all thumbnail image formats to disk
--list-thumbnails List available thumbnails of each video.
Simulate unless --no-simulate is used
## Post-Processing Options:
-x, --extract-audio Convert video files to audio-only files
(requires ffmpeg and ffprobe)
- --audio-format FORMAT Specify audio format to convert the audio to
- when -x is used. Currently supported formats
- are: best (default) or one of aac, flac,
- mp3, m4a, opus, vorbis, wav, alac
+ --audio-format FORMAT Format to convert the audio to when -x is
+ used. (currently supported: best (default),
+ mp3, aac, m4a, opus, vorbis, flac, alac,
+ wav). You can specify multiple rules using
+ similar syntax as --remux-video
--audio-quality QUALITY Specify ffmpeg audio quality to use when
converting the audio with -x. Insert a value
between 0 (best) and 10 (worst) for VBR or a
specific bitrate like 128K (default 5)
--remux-video FORMAT Remux the video into another container if
necessary (currently supported: mp4, mkv,
- flv, webm, mov, avi, mka, ogg, aac, flac,
- mp3, m4a, opus, vorbis, wav, alac). If
+ flv, webm, mov, avi, mka, ogg, mp3, aac,
+ m4a, opus, vorbis, flac, alac, wav). If
target container does not support the
video/audio codec, remuxing will fail. You
can specify multiple rules; Eg.
"aac>m4a/mov>mp4/mkv" will remux aac to m4a,
- mov to mp4 and anything else to mkv.
+ mov to mp4 and anything else to mkv
--recode-video FORMAT Re-encode the video into another format if
necessary. The syntax and supported formats
are the same as --remux-video
otherwise), force (try fixing even if file
already exists)
--ffmpeg-location PATH Location of the ffmpeg binary; either the
- path to the binary or its containing
- directory
+ path to the binary or its containing directory
--exec [WHEN:]CMD Execute a command, optionally prefixed with
when to execute it (after_move if
unspecified), separated by a ":". Supported
(currently supported: srt, vtt, ass, lrc)
(Alias: --convert-subtitles)
--convert-thumbnails FORMAT Convert the thumbnails to another format
- (currently supported: jpg, png, webp)
+ (currently supported: jpg, png, webp). You
+ can specify multiple rules using similar
+ syntax as --remux-video
--split-chapters Split video into multiple files based on
internal chapters. The "chapter:" prefix can
be used with "--paths" and "--output" to set
the output filename for the split files. See
"OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details
- --no-split-chapters Do not split video based on chapters
- (default)
+ --no-split-chapters Do not split video based on chapters (default)
--remove-chapters REGEX Remove chapters whose title matches the
- given regular expression. Time ranges
- prefixed by a "*" can also be used in place
- of chapters to remove the specified range.
- Eg: --remove-chapters "*10:15-15:00"
- --remove-chapters "intro". This option can
+ given regular expression. The syntax is the
+ same as --download-sections. This option can
be used multiple times
--no-remove-chapters Do not remove any chapters from the file
(default)
- --force-keyframes-at-cuts Force keyframes around chapters when
- removing/splitting them. This is slow due to
- needing a re-encode, but the resulting video
- may have fewer artifacts around the cuts
+ --force-keyframes-at-cuts Force keyframes at cuts when
+ downloading/splitting/removing sections.
+ This is slow due to needing a re-encode, but
+ the resulting video may have fewer artifacts
+ around the cuts
--no-force-keyframes-at-cuts Do not force keyframes around the chapters
when cutting/splitting (default)
--use-postprocessor NAME[:ARGS]
(after downloading and processing all
formats of a video), or "playlist" (at end
of playlist). This option can be used
- multiple times to add different
- postprocessors
+ multiple times to add different postprocessors
## SponsorBlock Options:
Make chapter entries for, or remove various segments (sponsor,
- `disc_number` (numeric): Number of the disc or other physical medium the track belongs to
- `release_year` (numeric): Year (YYYY) when the album was released
-Available for `chapter:` prefix when using `--split-chapters` for videos with internal chapters:
+Available only when using `--download-sections` and for `chapter:` prefix when using `--split-chapters` for videos with internal chapters:
- `section_title` (string): Title of the chapter
- `section_number` (numeric): Number of the chapter within the file
#### youtube
* `skip`: One or more of `hls`, `dash` or `translated_subs` to skip extraction of the m3u8 manifests, dash manifests and auto-translated subtitles respectively
-* `player_client`: Clients to extract video data from. The main clients are `web`, `android` and `ios` with variants `_music`, `_embedded`, `_embedscreen`, `_creator` (Eg: `web_embedded`); and `mweb` and `tv_embedded` (agegate bypass) with no variants. By default, `android,web` is used, but tv_embedded and creator variants are added as required for age-gated videos. Similarly the music variants are added for `music.youtube.com` urls. You can use `all` to use all the clients, and `default` for the default clients.
+* `player_client`: Clients to extract video data from. The main clients are `web`, `android` and `ios` with variants `_music`, `_embedded`, `_embedscreen`, `_creator` (Eg: `web_embedded`); and `mweb` and `tv_embedded` (agegate bypass) with no variants. By default, `android,web` is used, but `tv_embedded` and `creator` variants are added as required for age-gated videos. Similarly the music variants are added for `music.youtube.com` urls. You can use `all` to use all the clients, and `default` for the default clients.
* `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
* `include_live_dash`: Include live dash formats even without `--live-from-start` (These formats don't download properly)
* `comment_sort`: `top` or `new` (default) - choose comment sorting mode (on YouTube's side)
* `max_comments`: Limit the amount of comments to gather. Comma-separated list of integers representing `max-comments,max-parents,max-replies,max-replies-per-thread`. Default is `all,all,all,all`
* E.g. `all,all,1000,10` will get a maximum of 1000 replies total, with up to 10 replies per thread. `1000,all,100` will get a maximum of 1000 comments, with a maximum of 100 replies total
+* `innertube_host`: Innertube API host to use for all API requests
+ * e.g. `studio.youtube.com`, `youtubei.googleapis.com`
+ * Note: Cookies exported from `www.youtube.com` will not work with hosts other than `*.youtube.com`
+* `innertube_key`: Innertube API key to use for all API requests
#### youtubetab (YouTube playlists, channels, feeds, etc.)
* `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)
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