description: |
Carefully read and work through this check list in order to prevent the most common mistakes and misuse of yt-dlp:
options:
- - label: I'm asking a question and **not** reporting a bug/feature request
+ - label: I'm asking a question and **not** reporting a bug or requesting a feature
required: true
- label: I've looked through the [README](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#readme)
required: true
- - label: I've read the [guidelines for opening an issue](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#opening-an-issue)
+ - label: I've searched the [bugtracker](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q=) for similar questions including closed ones. DO NOT post duplicates
required: true
- - label: I've searched the [bugtracker](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q=) for similar questions including closed ones
+ - label: I've read the [guidelines for opening an issue](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#opening-an-issue)
required: true
- type: textarea
id: question
Ask your question in an arbitrary form.
Please make sure it's worded well enough to be understood, see [is-the-description-of-the-issue-itself-sufficient](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#is-the-description-of-the-issue-itself-sufficient).
Provide any additional information and as much context and examples as possible.
- If your question contains "isn't working" or "can you add", this is most likely the wrong template
+ If your question contains "isn't working" or "can you add", this is most likely the wrong template.
+ If you are in doubt if this is the right template, use another template!
placeholder: WRITE QUESTION HERE
validations:
required: true
attributes:
label: Verbose log
description: |
- If your question involes a yt-dlp command, provide the complete verbose output of that command.
- Add the `-Uv` flag to **your** command line you run yt-dlp with (`yt-dlp -Uv <your command line>`), copy the WHOLE output and insert it below.
+ If your question involves a yt-dlp command, provide the complete verbose output of that command.
+ Add the `-vU` flag to **your** command line you run yt-dlp with (`yt-dlp -vU <your command line>`), copy the WHOLE output and insert it below.
It should look similar to this:
placeholder: |
- [debug] Command-line config: ['-Uv', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc']
+ [debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc']
[debug] Portable config file: yt-dlp.conf
[debug] Portable config: ['-i']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, stdout utf-8, stderr utf-8, pref cp1252