remove_end,
write_string,
)
-from .cookies import SUPPORTED_BROWSERS
+from .cookies import SUPPORTED_BROWSERS, SUPPORTED_KEYRINGS
from .version import __version__
from .downloader.external import list_external_downloaders
def _dict_from_options_callback(
option, opt_str, value, parser,
- allowed_keys=r'[\w-]+', delimiter=':', default_key=None, process=None, multiple_keys=True):
+ allowed_keys=r'[\w-]+', delimiter=':', default_key=None, process=None, multiple_keys=True,
+ process_key=str.lower):
out_dict = getattr(parser.values, option.dest)
if multiple_keys:
allowed_keys = r'(%s)(,(%s))*' % (allowed_keys, allowed_keys)
mobj = re.match(r'(?i)(?P<keys>%s)%s(?P<val>.*)$' % (allowed_keys, delimiter), value)
if mobj is not None:
- keys = [k.strip() for k in mobj.group('keys').lower().split(',')]
- val = mobj.group('val')
+ keys, val = mobj.group('keys').split(','), mobj.group('val')
elif default_key is not None:
keys, val = [default_key], value
else:
raise optparse.OptionValueError(
'wrong %s formatting; it should be %s, not "%s"' % (opt_str, option.metavar, value))
try:
+ keys = map(process_key, keys) if process_key else keys
val = process(val) if process else val
except Exception as err:
- raise optparse.OptionValueError(
- 'wrong %s formatting; %s' % (opt_str, err))
+ raise optparse.OptionValueError(f'wrong {opt_str} formatting; {err}')
for key in keys:
out_dict[key] = val
general.add_option(
'-i', '--ignore-errors',
action='store_true', dest='ignoreerrors',
- help='Ignore download and postprocessing errors. The download will be considered successfull even if the postprocessing fails')
+ 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',
'--no-flat-playlist',
action='store_false', dest='extract_flat',
help='Extract the videos of a playlist')
+ general.add_option(
+ '--live-from-start',
+ action='store_true', dest='live_from_start',
+ help='Download livestreams from the start. Currently only supported for YouTube')
+ general.add_option(
+ '--no-live-from-start',
+ action='store_false', dest='live_from_start',
+ help='Download livestreams from the current time (default)')
+ general.add_option(
+ '--wait-for-video',
+ dest='wait_for_video', metavar='MIN[-MAX]', default=None,
+ help=(
+ 'Wait for scheduled streams to become available. '
+ 'Pass the minimum number of seconds (or range) to wait between retries'))
+ general.add_option(
+ '--no-wait-for-video',
+ dest='wait_for_video', action='store_const', const=None,
+ help='Do not wait for scheduled streams (default)')
general.add_option(
'--mark-watched',
action='store_true', dest='mark_watched', default=False,
'allowed_values': {
'filename', 'format-sort', 'abort-on-error', 'format-spec', 'no-playlist-metafiles',
'multistreams', 'no-live-chat', 'playlist-index', 'list-formats', 'no-direct-merge',
- 'no-youtube-channel-redirect', 'no-youtube-unavailable-videos', 'no-attach-info-json',
+ 'no-youtube-channel-redirect', 'no-youtube-unavailable-videos', 'no-attach-info-json', 'embed-metadata',
'embed-thumbnail-atomicparsley', 'seperate-video-versions', 'no-clean-infojson', 'no-keep-subs',
}, 'aliases': {
'youtube-dl': ['-multistreams', 'all'],
'--reject-title',
dest='rejecttitle', metavar='REGEX',
help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
- selection.add_option(
- '--max-downloads',
- dest='max_downloads', metavar='NUMBER', type=int, default=None,
- help='Abort after downloading NUMBER files')
selection.add_option(
'--min-filesize',
metavar='SIZE', dest='min_filesize', default=None,
'--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(
'--download-archive', metavar='FILE',
dest='download_archive',
help='Download only videos not listed in the archive file. Record the IDs of all downloaded videos in it')
+ selection.add_option(
+ '--no-download-archive',
+ dest='download_archive', action="store_const", const=None,
+ help='Do not use archive file (default)')
+ selection.add_option(
+ '--max-downloads',
+ dest='max_downloads', metavar='NUMBER', type=int, default=None,
+ help='Abort after downloading NUMBER files')
selection.add_option(
'--break-on-existing',
action='store_true', dest='break_on_existing', default=False,
'--break-on-reject',
action='store_true', dest='break_on_reject', default=False,
help='Stop the download process when encountering a file that has been filtered out')
+ selection.add_option(
+ '--break-per-input',
+ action='store_true', dest='break_per_url', default=False,
+ help='Make --break-on-existing and --break-on-reject act only on the current input URL')
+ selection.add_option(
+ '--no-break-per-input',
+ action='store_false', dest='break_per_url',
+ help='--break-on-existing and --break-on-reject terminates the entire download queue')
selection.add_option(
'--skip-playlist-after-errors', metavar='N',
dest='skip_playlist_after_errors', default=None, type=int,
help='Number of allowed failures until the rest of the playlist is skipped')
- selection.add_option(
- '--no-download-archive',
- dest='download_archive', action="store_const", const=None,
- help='Do not use archive file (default)')
selection.add_option(
'--include-ads',
dest='include_ads', action='store_true',
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',
action='callback', dest='subtitleslangs', metavar='LANGS', type='str',
default=[], callback=_list_from_options_callback,
help=(
- 'Languages of the subtitles to download (can be regex) or "all" separated by commas. (Eg: --sub-langs en.*,ja) '
+ 'Languages of the subtitles to download (can be regex) or "all" separated by commas. (Eg: --sub-langs "en.*,ja") '
'You can prefix the language code with a "-" to exempt it from the requested languages. (Eg: --sub-langs all,-live_chat) '
'Use --list-subs for a list of available language tags'))
downloader.add_option(
'-N', '--concurrent-fragments',
dest='concurrent_fragment_downloads', metavar='N', default=1, type=int,
- help='Number of fragments of a dash/hlsnative video that should be download concurrently (default is %default)')
+ help='Number of fragments of a dash/hlsnative video that should be downloaded concurrently (default is %default)')
downloader.add_option(
'-r', '--limit-rate', '--rate-limit',
dest='ratelimit', metavar='RATE',
'-R', '--retries',
dest='retries', metavar='RETRIES', default=10,
help='Number of retries (default is %default), or "infinite"')
+ downloader.add_option(
+ '--file-access-retries',
+ dest='file_access_retries', metavar='RETRIES', default=10,
+ help='Number of times to retry on file access error (default is %default), or "infinite"')
downloader.add_option(
'--fragment-retries',
dest='fragment_retries', metavar='RETRIES', default=10,
'--add-header',
metavar='FIELD:VALUE', dest='headers', default={}, type='str',
action='callback', callback=_dict_from_options_callback,
- callback_kwargs={'multiple_keys': False},
+ callback_kwargs={'multiple_keys': False, 'process_key': None},
help='Specify a custom HTTP header and its value, separated by a colon ":". You can use this option multiple times',
)
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,
filesystem.add_option(
'-a', '--batch-file',
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")
+ 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)
}, help=(
'The paths where the files should be downloaded. '
'Specify the type of file and the path separated by a colon ":". '
- 'All the same types as --output are supported. '
+ 'All the same TYPES as --output are supported. '
'Additionally, you can also provide "home" (default) and "temp" paths. '
'All intermediary files are first downloaded to the temp path and '
'then the final files are moved over to the home path after download is finished. '
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,
filesystem.add_option(
'--cookies',
dest='cookiefile', metavar='FILE',
- help='File to read cookies from and dump cookie jar in')
+ help='Netscape formatted file to read cookies from and dump cookie jar in')
filesystem.add_option(
'--no-cookies',
action='store_const', const=None, dest='cookiefile', metavar='FILE',
help='Do not read/dump cookies from/to file (default)')
filesystem.add_option(
'--cookies-from-browser',
- dest='cookiesfrombrowser', metavar='BROWSER[:PROFILE]',
+ dest='cookiesfrombrowser', metavar='BROWSER[+KEYRING][:PROFILE]',
help=(
- 'Load cookies from a user profile of the given web browser. '
- 'Currently supported browsers are: {}. '
- '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)))))
+ 'The name of the browser and (optionally) the name/path of '
+ 'the profile to load cookies from, separated by a ":". '
+ f'Currently supported browsers are: {", ".join(sorted(SUPPORTED_BROWSERS))}. '
+ 'By default, the most recently accessed profile is used. '
+ 'The keyring used for decrypting Chromium cookies on Linux can be '
+ '(optionally) specified after the browser name separated by a "+". '
+ f'Currently supported keyrings are: {", ".join(map(str.lower, sorted(SUPPORTED_KEYRINGS)))}'))
filesystem.add_option(
'--no-cookies-from-browser',
action='store_const', const=None, dest='cookiesfrombrowser',
thumbnail = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Thumbnail Options')
thumbnail.add_option(
'--write-thumbnail',
- action='store_true', dest='writethumbnail', default=False,
+ action='callback', dest='writethumbnail', default=False,
+ # Should override --no-write-thumbnail, but not --write-all-thumbnail
+ callback=lambda option, _, __, parser: setattr(
+ parser.values, option.dest, getattr(parser.values, option.dest) or True),
help='Write thumbnail image to disk')
thumbnail.add_option(
'--no-write-thumbnail',
help='Do not write thumbnail image to disk (default)')
thumbnail.add_option(
'--write-all-thumbnails',
- action='store_true', dest='write_all_thumbnails', default=False,
+ action='store_const', dest='writethumbnail', const='all',
help='Write all thumbnail image formats to disk')
thumbnail.add_option(
'--list-thumbnails',
postproc.add_option(
'--audio-quality', metavar='QUALITY',
dest='audioquality', default='5',
- help='Specify ffmpeg audio quality, insert a value between 0 (better) and 9 (worse) for VBR or a specific bitrate like 128K (default %default)')
+ help='Specify ffmpeg audio quality, insert a value between 0 (best) and 10 (worst) for VBR or a specific bitrate like 128K (default %default)')
postproc.add_option(
'--remux-video',
metavar='FORMAT', dest='remuxvideo', default=None,
postproc.add_option(
'--embed-metadata', '--add-metadata',
action='store_true', dest='addmetadata', default=False,
- help='Embed metadata to the video file. Also adds chapters to file unless --no-add-chapters is used (Alias: --add-metadata)')
+ help=(
+ 'Embed metadata to the video file. Also embeds chapters/infojson if present '
+ 'unless --no-embed-chapters/--no-embed-info-json are used (Alias: --add-metadata)'))
postproc.add_option(
'--no-embed-metadata', '--no-add-metadata',
action='store_false', dest='addmetadata',
'--no-embed-chapters', '--no-add-chapters',
action='store_false', dest='addchapters',
help='Do not add chapter markers (default) (Alias: --no-add-chapters)')
+ postproc.add_option(
+ '--embed-info-json',
+ action='store_true', dest='embed_infojson', default=None,
+ help='Embed the infojson as an attachment to mkv/mka video files')
+ postproc.add_option(
+ '--no-embed-info-json',
+ action='store_false', dest='embed_infojson',
+ help='Do not embed the infojson as an attachment to the video file')
postproc.add_option(
'--metadata-from-title',
metavar='FORMAT', dest='metafromtitle',
'Automatically correct known faults of the file. '
'One of never (do nothing), warn (only emit a warning), '
'detect_or_warn (the default; fix file if we can, warn otherwise), '
- 'force (try fixing even if file already exists'))
+ 'force (try fixing even if file already exists)'))
postproc.add_option(
'--prefer-avconv', '--no-prefer-ffmpeg',
action='store_false', dest='prefer_ffmpeg',
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)')
action='store_true', dest='force_keyframes_at_cuts', default=False,
help=(
'Force keyframes around the chapters before removing/splitting them. '
- 'Requires a reencode and thus is very slow, but the resulting video '
+ 'Requires a re-encode and thus is very slow, but the resulting video '
'may have fewer artifacts around the cuts'))
postproc.add_option(
'--no-force-keyframes-at-cuts',
'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 ":". '
+ 'and (optionally) arguments to be passed to it, separated 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), '
sponsorblock.add_option(
'--sponsorblock-mark', metavar='CATS',
dest='sponsorblock_mark', default=set(), action='callback', type='str',
- callback=_set_from_options_callback, callback_kwargs={'allowed_values': SponsorBlockPP.CATEGORIES.keys()},
- help=(
+ callback=_set_from_options_callback, callback_kwargs={
+ 'allowed_values': SponsorBlockPP.CATEGORIES.keys(),
+ 'aliases': {'default': ['all']}
+ }, help=(
'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-mark all,-preview' % ', '.join(SponsorBlockPP.CATEGORIES.keys())))
+ f'Available categories are all, default(=all), {", ".join(SponsorBlockPP.CATEGORIES.keys())}. '
+ 'You can prefix the category with a "-" to exempt it. See [1] for description of the categories. '
+ 'Eg: --sponsorblock-mark all,-preview [1] https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/w/Segment_Categories'))
sponsorblock.add_option(
'--sponsorblock-remove', metavar='CATS',
dest='sponsorblock_remove', default=set(), action='callback', type='str',
- callback=_set_from_options_callback, callback_kwargs={'allowed_values': SponsorBlockPP.CATEGORIES.keys()},
- help=(
+ callback=_set_from_options_callback, callback_kwargs={
+ 'allowed_values': set(SponsorBlockPP.CATEGORIES.keys()) - set(SponsorBlockPP.POI_CATEGORIES.keys()),
+ # Note: From https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/w/Types:
+ # The filler category is very aggressive.
+ # It is strongly recommended to not use this in a client by default.
+ 'aliases': {'default': ['all', '-filler']}
+ }, help=(
'SponsorBlock categories to be removed from the video file, separated by commas. '
'If a category is present in both mark and remove, remove takes precedence. '
- 'The syntax and available categories are the same as for --sponsorblock-mark'))
+ 'The syntax and available categories are the same as for --sponsorblock-mark '
+ 'except that "default" refers to "all,-filler" '
+ f'and {", ".join(SponsorBlockPP.POI_CATEGORIES.keys())} is not available'))
sponsorblock.add_option(
'--sponsorblock-chapter-title', metavar='TEMPLATE',
default=DEFAULT_SPONSORBLOCK_CHAPTER_TITLE, dest='sponsorblock_chapter_title',
current_path = os.path.join(path, '%s.conf' % package)
config = _readOptions(current_path, default=None)
if config is not None:
+ current_path = os.path.realpath(current_path)
+ if current_path in paths.values():
+ return False
configs[name], paths[name] = config, current_path
return parser.parse_args(config)[0].ignoreconfig
return False
parser.error('config-location %s does not exist.' % location)
config = _readOptions(location, default=None)
if config:
- configs['custom'], paths['config'] = config, location
+ configs['custom'], paths['custom'] = config, location
if opts.ignoreconfig:
return
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):
write_string(f'[debug] {label} config file: {paths[key]}\n')