-h, --help Print this help text and exit
--version Print program version and exit
-U, --update Update this program to latest version
+ --no-update Do not update (default)
-i, --ignore-errors Ignore download and postprocessing errors.
The download will be considered successful
even if the postprocessing fails
--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)
- --playlist-end NUMBER Playlist video to end at (default is last)
- --playlist-items ITEM_SPEC Playlist video items to download. Specify
- indices of the videos in the playlist
- separated by commas like: "--playlist-items
- 1,2,5,8" if you want to download videos
- indexed 1, 2, 5, 8 in the playlist. You can
- specify range: "--playlist-items
- 1-3,7,10-13", it will download the videos at
- index 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13
+ -I, --playlist-items ITEM_SPEC Comma seperated playlist_index of the videos
+ to download. You can specify a range using
+ "[START]:[STOP][:STEP]". For backward
+ compatibility, START-STOP is also supported.
+ Use negative indices to count from the right
+ and negative STEP to download in reverse
+ order. Eg: "-I 1:3,7,-5::2" used on a
+ playlist of size 15 will download the videos
+ at index 1,2,3,7,11,13,15
--min-filesize SIZE Do not download any videos smaller than SIZE
(e.g. 50k or 44.6m)
--max-filesize SIZE Do not download any videos larger than SIZE
is disabled). May be useful for bypassing
bandwidth throttling imposed by a webserver
(experimental)
- --playlist-reverse Download playlist videos in reverse order
- --no-playlist-reverse Download playlist videos in default order
- (default)
--playlist-random Download playlist videos in random order
+ --lazy-playlist Process entries in the playlist as they are
+ received. This disables n_entries,
+ --playlist-random and --playlist-reverse
+ --no-lazy-playlist Process videos in the playlist only after
+ the entire playlist is parsed (default)
--xattr-set-filesize Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with
expected file size
--hls-use-mpegts Use the mpegts container for HLS videos;
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
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
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. The syntax is the
same as --download-sections. This option can
(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,
--max-views COUNT --match-filter "view_count <=? COUNT"
--user-agent UA --add-header "User-Agent:UA"
--referer URL --add-header "Referer:URL"
+ --playlist-start NUMBER -I NUMBER:
+ --playlist-end NUMBER -I :NUMBER
+ --playlist-reverse -I ::-1
+ --no-playlist-reverse Default
#### Not recommended
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