get_executable_path,
OUTTMPL_TYPES,
preferredencoding,
+ remove_end,
write_string,
)
from .cookies import SUPPORTED_BROWSERS
return ''.join(opts)
- def _list_from_options_callback(option, opt_str, value, parser, append=True, delim=','):
+ def _list_from_options_callback(option, opt_str, value, parser, append=True, delim=',', process=str.strip):
# append can be True, False or -1 (prepend)
current = getattr(parser.values, option.dest) if append else []
- value = [value] if delim is None else value.split(delim)
+ value = list(filter(None, [process(value)] if delim is None else map(process, value.split(delim))))
setattr(
parser.values, option.dest,
current + value if append is True else value + current)
def _set_from_options_callback(
- option, opt_str, value, parser,
- delim=',', allowed_values=None, process=str.lower, aliases={}):
+ option, opt_str, value, parser, delim=',', allowed_values=None, aliases={},
+ process=lambda x: x.lower().strip()):
current = getattr(parser.values, option.dest)
- values = [process(value)] if delim is None else process(value).split(delim)[::-1]
+ values = [process(value)] if delim is None else list(map(process, value.split(delim)[::-1]))
while values:
actual_val = val = values.pop()
if val == 'all':
action='store_true', dest='update_self',
help='Update this program to latest version. Make sure that you have sufficient permissions (run with sudo if needed)')
general.add_option(
- '-i', '--ignore-errors', '--no-abort-on-error',
- action='store_true', dest='ignoreerrors', default=None,
- help='Continue on download errors, for example to skip unavailable videos in a playlist (default) (Alias: --no-abort-on-error)')
+ '-i', '--ignore-errors',
+ action='store_true', dest='ignoreerrors',
+ help='Ignore download and postprocessing errors. The download will be considered successful even if the postprocessing fails')
+ general.add_option(
+ '--no-abort-on-error',
+ action='store_const', dest='ignoreerrors', const='only_download',
+ help='Continue with next video on download errors; e.g. to skip unavailable videos in a playlist (default)')
general.add_option(
'--abort-on-error', '--no-ignore-errors',
action='store_false', dest='ignoreerrors',
general.add_option(
'--default-search',
dest='default_search', metavar='PREFIX',
- help='Use this prefix for unqualified URLs. For example "gvsearch2:" downloads two videos from google videos for youtube-dl "large apple". Use the value "auto" to let youtube-dl guess ("auto_warning" to emit a warning when guessing). "error" just throws an error. The default value "fixup_error" repairs broken URLs, but emits an error if this is not possible instead of searching')
+ help='Use this prefix for unqualified URLs. For example "gvsearch2:" downloads two videos from google videos for the search term "large apple". Use the value "auto" to let yt-dlp guess ("auto_warning" to emit a warning when guessing). "error" just throws an error. The default value "fixup_error" repairs broken URLs, but emits an error if this is not possible instead of searching')
general.add_option(
'--ignore-config', '--no-config',
- action='store_true',
+ action='store_true', dest='ignoreconfig',
help=(
'Disable loading any configuration files except the one provided by --config-location. '
'When given inside a configuration file, no further configuration files are loaded. '
general.add_option(
'--mark-watched',
action='store_true', dest='mark_watched', default=False,
- help='Mark videos watched (YouTube only)')
+ help='Mark videos watched (even with --simulate). Currently only supported for YouTube')
general.add_option(
'--no-mark-watched',
action='store_false', dest='mark_watched',
'multistreams', 'no-live-chat', 'playlist-index', 'list-formats', 'no-direct-merge',
'no-youtube-channel-redirect', 'no-youtube-unavailable-videos', 'no-attach-info-json',
'embed-thumbnail-atomicparsley', 'seperate-video-versions', 'no-clean-infojson', 'no-keep-subs',
- },
- 'aliases': {
+ }, 'aliases': {
'youtube-dl': ['-multistreams', 'all'],
'youtube-dlc': ['-no-youtube-channel-redirect', '-no-live-chat', 'all'],
}
'--date',
metavar='DATE', dest='date', default=None,
help=(
- 'Download only videos uploaded in this date. '
+ 'Download only videos uploaded on this date. '
'The date can be "YYYYMMDD" or in the format '
'"(now|today)[+-][0-9](day|week|month|year)(s)?"'))
selection.add_option(
'-n', '--netrc',
action='store_true', dest='usenetrc', default=False,
help='Use .netrc authentication data')
+ authentication.add_option(
+ '--netrc-location',
+ dest='netrc_location', metavar='PATH',
+ help='Location of .netrc authentication data; either the path or its containing directory. Defaults to ~/.netrc')
authentication.add_option(
'--video-password',
dest='videopassword', metavar='PASSWORD',
help="Don't give any special preference to free containers (default)")
video_format.add_option(
'--check-formats',
- action='store_true', dest='check_formats', default=None,
- help='Check that the formats selected are actually downloadable')
+ action='store_const', const='selected', dest='check_formats', default=None,
+ help='Check that the selected formats are actually downloadable')
+ video_format.add_option(
+ '--check-all-formats',
+ action='store_true', dest='check_formats',
+ help='Check all formats for whether they are actually downloadable')
video_format.add_option(
'--no-check-formats',
action='store_false', dest='check_formats',
- help='Do not check that the formats selected are actually downloadable')
+ help='Do not check that the formats are actually downloadable')
video_format.add_option(
'-F', '--list-formats',
action='store_true', dest='listformats',
dest='encoding', metavar='ENCODING',
help='Force the specified encoding (experimental)')
workarounds.add_option(
- '--no-check-certificate',
+ '--no-check-certificates',
action='store_true', dest='no_check_certificate', default=False,
help='Suppress HTTPS certificate validation')
workarounds.add_option(
'--ignore-no-formats-error',
action='store_true', dest='ignore_no_formats_error', default=False,
help=(
- 'Ignore "No video formats" error. Usefull for extracting metadata '
+ 'Ignore "No video formats" error. Useful for extracting metadata '
'even if the videos are not actually available for download (experimental)'))
verbosity.add_option(
'--no-ignore-no-formats-error',
help='Output progress bar as new lines')
verbosity.add_option(
'--no-progress',
- action='store_true', dest='noprogress', default=False,
+ action='store_true', dest='noprogress', default=None,
help='Do not print progress bar')
+ verbosity.add_option(
+ '--progress',
+ action='store_false', dest='noprogress',
+ help='Show progress bar, even if in quiet mode')
verbosity.add_option(
'--console-title',
action='store_true', dest='consoletitle', default=False,
help='Display progress in console titlebar')
+ verbosity.add_option(
+ '--progress-template',
+ metavar='[TYPES:]TEMPLATE', dest='progress_template', default={}, type='str',
+ action='callback', callback=_dict_from_options_callback,
+ callback_kwargs={
+ 'allowed_keys': '(download|postprocess)(-title)?',
+ 'default_key': 'download'
+ }, help=(
+ 'Template for progress outputs, optionally prefixed with one of "download:" (default), '
+ '"download-title:" (the console title), "postprocess:", or "postprocess-title:". '
+ 'The video\'s fields are accessible under the "info" key and '
+ 'the progress attributes are accessible under "progress" key. E.g.: '
+ # TODO: Document the fields inside "progress"
+ '--console-title --progress-template "download-title:%(info.id)s-%(progress.eta)s"'))
verbosity.add_option(
'-v', '--verbose',
action='store_true', dest='verbose', default=False,
dest='batchfile', metavar='FILE',
help="File containing URLs to download ('-' for stdin), one URL per line. "
"Lines starting with '#', ';' or ']' are considered as comments and ignored")
+ filesystem.add_option(
+ '--no-batch-file',
+ dest='batchfile', action='store_const', const=None,
+ help='Do not read URLs from batch file (default)')
filesystem.add_option(
'--id', default=False,
action='store_true', dest='useid', help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
filesystem.add_option(
'--windows-filenames',
action='store_true', dest='windowsfilenames', default=False,
- help='Force filenames to be windows compatible')
+ help='Force filenames to be Windows-compatible')
filesystem.add_option(
'--no-windows-filenames',
action='store_false', dest='windowsfilenames',
- help='Make filenames windows compatible only if using windows (default)')
+ help='Make filenames Windows-compatible only if using Windows (default)')
filesystem.add_option(
'--trim-filenames', '--trim-file-names', metavar='LENGTH',
dest='trim_file_name', default=0, type=int,
help='Limit the filename length (excluding extension) to the specified number of characters')
- filesystem.add_option(
- '--auto-number',
- action='store_true', dest='autonumber', default=False,
- help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
- filesystem.add_option(
- '--title',
- action='store_true', dest='usetitle', default=False,
- help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
- filesystem.add_option(
- '--literal', default=False,
- action='store_true', dest='usetitle',
- help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
filesystem.add_option(
'-w', '--no-overwrites',
action='store_false', dest='overwrites', default=None,
'The comments are fetched even without this option if the extraction is known to be quick (Alias: --get-comments)'))
filesystem.add_option(
'--no-write-comments', '--no-get-comments',
- action='store_true', dest='getcomments', default=False,
+ action='store_false', dest='getcomments',
help='Do not retrieve video comments unless the extraction is known to be quick (Alias: --no-get-comments)')
filesystem.add_option(
'--load-info-json', '--load-info',
'You can specify the user profile name or directory using '
'"BROWSER:PROFILE_NAME" or "BROWSER:PROFILE_PATH". '
'If no profile is given, the most recently accessed one is used'.format(
- '|'.join(sorted(SUPPORTED_BROWSERS)))))
+ ', '.join(sorted(SUPPORTED_BROWSERS)))))
filesystem.add_option(
'--no-cookies-from-browser',
action='store_const', const=None, dest='cookiesfrombrowser',
help='Do not load cookies from browser (default)')
filesystem.add_option(
'--cache-dir', dest='cachedir', default=None, metavar='DIR',
- help='Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl can store some downloaded information (such as client ids and signatures) permanently. By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/youtube-dl or ~/.cache/youtube-dl')
+ help='Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl can store some downloaded information (such as client ids and signatures) permanently. By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/yt-dlp or ~/.cache/yt-dlp')
filesystem.add_option(
'--no-cache-dir', action='store_false', dest='cachedir',
help='Disable filesystem caching')
postproc.add_option(
'--remove-chapters',
metavar='REGEX', dest='remove_chapters', action='append',
- help='Remove chapters whose title matches the given regular expression. This option can be used multiple times')
+ help=(
+ '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 be used multiple times'))
postproc.add_option(
'--no-remove-chapters', dest='remove_chapters', action='store_const', const=None,
help='Do not remove any chapters from the file (default)')
'--no-force-keyframes-at-cuts',
action='store_false', dest='force_keyframes_at_cuts',
help='Do not force keyframes around the chapters when cutting/splitting (default)')
+ _postprocessor_opts_parser = lambda key, val='': (
+ *(item.split('=', 1) for item in (val.split(';') if val else [])),
+ ('key', remove_end(key, 'PP')))
+ postproc.add_option(
+ '--use-postprocessor',
+ metavar='NAME[:ARGS]', dest='add_postprocessors', default=[], type='str',
+ action='callback', callback=_list_from_options_callback,
+ callback_kwargs={
+ 'delim': None,
+ 'process': lambda val: dict(_postprocessor_opts_parser(*val.split(':', 1)))
+ }, help=(
+ 'The (case sensitive) name of plugin postprocessors to be enabled, '
+ 'and (optionally) arguments to be passed to it, seperated by a colon ":". '
+ 'ARGS are a semicolon ";" delimited list of NAME=VALUE. '
+ 'The "when" argument determines when the postprocessor is invoked. '
+ 'It can be one of "pre_process" (after extraction), '
+ '"before_dl" (before video download), "post_process" (after video download; default) '
+ 'or "after_move" (after moving file to their final locations). '
+ 'This option can be used multiple times to add different postprocessors'))
sponsorblock = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'SponsorBlock Options', description=(
'Make chapter entries for, or remove various segments (sponsor, introductions, etc.) '
'SponsorBlock categories to create chapters for, separated by commas. '
'Available categories are all, %s. You can prefix the category with a "-" to exempt it. '
'See https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/index.php/Segment_Categories for description of the categories. '
- 'Eg: --sponsorblock-query all,-preview' % ', '.join(SponsorBlockPP.CATEGORIES.keys())))
+ 'Eg: --sponsorblock-mark all,-preview' % ', '.join(SponsorBlockPP.CATEGORIES.keys())))
sponsorblock.add_option(
'--sponsorblock-remove', metavar='CATS',
dest='sponsorblock_remove', default=set(), action='callback', type='str',
sponsorblock.add_option(
'--sponskrub',
- action='store_true', dest='sponskrub', default=None,
+ action='store_true', dest='sponskrub', default=False,
help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
sponsorblock.add_option(
'--no-sponskrub',
'command-line': compat_conf(sys.argv[1:]),
'custom': [], 'home': [], 'portable': [], 'user': [], 'system': []}
paths = {'command-line': False}
- opts, args = parser.parse_args(configs['command-line'])
+
+ def read_options(name, path, user=False):
+ ''' loads config files and returns ignoreconfig '''
+ # Multiple package names can be given here
+ # Eg: ('yt-dlp', 'youtube-dlc', 'youtube-dl') will look for
+ # the configuration file of any of these three packages
+ for package in ('yt-dlp',):
+ if user:
+ config, current_path = _readUserConf(package, default=None)
+ else:
+ current_path = os.path.join(path, '%s.conf' % package)
+ config = _readOptions(current_path, default=None)
+ if config is not None:
+ configs[name], paths[name] = config, current_path
+ return parser.parse_args(config)[0].ignoreconfig
+ return False
def get_configs():
- if '--config-location' in configs['command-line']:
+ opts, _ = parser.parse_args(configs['command-line'])
+ if opts.config_location is not None:
location = compat_expanduser(opts.config_location)
if os.path.isdir(location):
location = os.path.join(location, 'yt-dlp.conf')
if not os.path.exists(location):
parser.error('config-location %s does not exist.' % location)
- configs['custom'] = _readOptions(location, default=None)
- if configs['custom'] is None:
- configs['custom'] = []
- else:
- paths['custom'] = location
- if '--ignore-config' in configs['command-line']:
+ config = _readOptions(location, default=None)
+ if config:
+ configs['custom'], paths['custom'] = config, location
+
+ if opts.ignoreconfig:
return
- if '--ignore-config' in configs['custom']:
+ if parser.parse_args(configs['custom'])[0].ignoreconfig:
return
-
- def read_options(path, user=False):
- # Multiple package names can be given here
- # Eg: ('yt-dlp', 'youtube-dlc', 'youtube-dl') will look for
- # the configuration file of any of these three packages
- for package in ('yt-dlp',):
- if user:
- config, current_path = _readUserConf(package, default=None)
- else:
- current_path = os.path.join(path, '%s.conf' % package)
- config = _readOptions(current_path, default=None)
- if config is not None:
- return config, current_path
- return [], None
-
- configs['portable'], paths['portable'] = read_options(get_executable_path())
- if '--ignore-config' in configs['portable']:
+ if read_options('portable', get_executable_path()):
return
-
- def get_home_path():
- opts = parser.parse_args(configs['portable'] + configs['custom'] + configs['command-line'])[0]
- return expand_path(opts.paths.get('home', '')).strip()
-
- configs['home'], paths['home'] = read_options(get_home_path())
- if '--ignore-config' in configs['home']:
+ opts, _ = parser.parse_args(configs['portable'] + configs['custom'] + configs['command-line'])
+ if read_options('home', expand_path(opts.paths.get('home', '')).strip()):
return
-
- configs['system'], paths['system'] = read_options('/etc')
- if '--ignore-config' in configs['system']:
+ if read_options('system', '/etc'):
return
-
- configs['user'], paths['user'] = read_options('', True)
- if '--ignore-config' in configs['user']:
+ if read_options('user', None, user=True):
configs['system'], paths['system'] = [], None
get_configs()
argv = configs['system'] + configs['user'] + configs['home'] + configs['portable'] + configs['custom'] + configs['command-line']
opts, args = parser.parse_args(argv)
if opts.verbose:
- for label in ('System', 'User', 'Portable', 'Home', 'Custom', 'Command-line'):
+ for label in ('Command-line', 'Custom', 'Portable', 'Home', 'User', 'System'):
key = label.lower()
- if paths.get(key) is None:
- continue
- if paths[key]:
- write_string('[debug] %s config file: %s\n' % (label, paths[key]))
- write_string('[debug] %s config: %s\n' % (label, repr(_hide_login_info(configs[key]))))
+ if paths.get(key):
+ write_string(f'[debug] {label} config file: {paths[key]}\n')
+ if paths.get(key) is not None:
+ write_string(f'[debug] {label} config: {_hide_login_info(configs[key])!r}\n')
return parser, opts, args