-from __future__ import unicode_literals
-
-import os.path
+import collections
+import contextlib
import optparse
+import os.path
import re
+import shlex
+import string
import sys
-from .compat import (
- compat_expanduser,
- compat_get_terminal_size,
- compat_getenv,
- compat_kwargs,
- compat_shlex_split,
-)
-from .utils import (
- Config,
- expand_path,
- get_executable_path,
- OUTTMPL_TYPES,
- POSTPROCESS_WHEN,
- remove_end,
- write_string,
-)
+from .compat import compat_expanduser, compat_get_terminal_size, compat_getenv
from .cookies import SUPPORTED_BROWSERS, SUPPORTED_KEYRINGS
-from .version import __version__
-
from .downloader.external import list_external_downloaders
from .postprocessor import (
FFmpegExtractAudioPP,
SponsorBlockPP,
)
from .postprocessor.modify_chapters import DEFAULT_SPONSORBLOCK_CHAPTER_TITLE
+from .update import detect_variant
+from .utils import (
+ OUTTMPL_TYPES,
+ POSTPROCESS_WHEN,
+ Config,
+ expand_path,
+ get_executable_path,
+ join_nonempty,
+ remove_end,
+ write_string,
+)
+from .version import __version__
def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None, ignore_config_files='if_override'):
- parser = create_parser()
- root = Config(parser)
-
+ root = Config(create_parser())
if ignore_config_files == 'if_override':
ignore_config_files = overrideArguments is not None
- if overrideArguments:
- root.append_config(overrideArguments, label='Override')
- else:
- root.append_config(sys.argv[1:], label='Command-line')
def _readUserConf(package_name, default=[]):
# .config
def add_config(label, path, user=False):
""" Adds config and returns whether to continue """
- if root.parse_args()[0].ignoreconfig:
+ if root.parse_known_args()[0].ignoreconfig:
return False
# Multiple package names can be given here
# Eg: ('yt-dlp', 'youtube-dlc', 'youtube-dl') will look for
def load_configs():
yield not ignore_config_files
yield add_config('Portable', get_executable_path())
- yield add_config('Home', expand_path(root.parse_args()[0].paths.get('home', '')).strip())
+ yield add_config('Home', expand_path(root.parse_known_args()[0].paths.get('home', '')).strip())
yield add_config('User', None, user=True)
yield add_config('System', '/etc')
- if all(load_configs()):
- # If ignoreconfig is found inside the system configuration file,
- # the user configuration is removed
- if root.parse_args()[0].ignoreconfig:
- user_conf = next((i for i, conf in enumerate(root.configs) if conf.label == 'User'), None)
- if user_conf is not None:
- root.configs.pop(user_conf)
-
- opts, args = root.parse_args()
- if opts.verbose:
- write_string(f'\n{root}'.replace('\n| ', '\n[debug] ')[1:] + '\n')
- return parser, opts, args
+ opts = optparse.Values({'verbose': True, 'print_help': False})
+ try:
+ if overrideArguments:
+ root.append_config(overrideArguments, label='Override')
+ else:
+ root.append_config(sys.argv[1:], label='Command-line')
+ if all(load_configs()):
+ # If ignoreconfig is found inside the system configuration file,
+ # the user configuration is removed
+ if root.parse_known_args()[0].ignoreconfig:
+ user_conf = next((i for i, conf in enumerate(root.configs) if conf.label == 'User'), None)
+ if user_conf is not None:
+ root.configs.pop(user_conf)
-def create_parser():
- def _format_option_string(option):
- ''' ('-o', '--option') -> -o, --format METAVAR'''
+ opts, args = root.parse_args()
+ except optparse.OptParseError:
+ with contextlib.suppress(optparse.OptParseError):
+ opts, _ = root.parse_known_args(strict=False)
+ raise
+ except (SystemExit, KeyboardInterrupt):
+ opts.verbose = False
+ raise
+ finally:
+ verbose = opts.verbose and f'\n{root}'.replace('\n| ', '\n[debug] ')[1:]
+ if verbose:
+ write_string(f'{verbose}\n')
+ if opts.print_help:
+ if verbose:
+ write_string('\n')
+ root.parser.print_help()
+ if opts.print_help:
+ sys.exit()
+ return root.parser, opts, args
- opts = []
- if option._short_opts:
- opts.append(option._short_opts[0])
- if option._long_opts:
- opts.append(option._long_opts[0])
- if len(opts) > 1:
- opts.insert(1, ', ')
+class _YoutubeDLHelpFormatter(optparse.IndentedHelpFormatter):
+ def __init__(self):
+ # No need to wrap help messages if we're on a wide console
+ max_width = compat_get_terminal_size().columns or 80
+ # The % is chosen to get a pretty output in README.md
+ super().__init__(width=max_width, max_help_position=int(0.45 * max_width))
+ @staticmethod
+ def format_option_strings(option):
+ """ ('-o', '--option') -> -o, --format METAVAR """
+ opts = join_nonempty(
+ option._short_opts and option._short_opts[0],
+ option._long_opts and option._long_opts[0],
+ delim=', ')
if option.takes_value():
- opts.append(' %s' % option.metavar)
+ opts += f' {option.metavar}'
+ return opts
+
+
+class _YoutubeDLOptionParser(optparse.OptionParser):
+ # optparse is deprecated since python 3.2. So assume a stable interface even for private methods
+ ALIAS_TRIGGER_LIMIT = 100
+
+ def __init__(self):
+ super().__init__(
+ prog='yt-dlp' if detect_variant() == 'source' else None,
+ version=__version__,
+ usage='%prog [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]',
+ epilog='See full documentation at https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#readme',
+ formatter=_YoutubeDLHelpFormatter(),
+ conflict_handler='resolve',
+ )
+
+ _UNKNOWN_OPTION = (optparse.BadOptionError, optparse.AmbiguousOptionError)
+ _BAD_OPTION = optparse.OptionValueError
- return ''.join(opts)
+ def parse_known_args(self, args=None, values=None, strict=True):
+ """Same as parse_args, but ignore unknown switches. Similar to argparse.parse_known_args"""
+ self.rargs, self.largs = self._get_args(args), []
+ self.values = values or self.get_default_values()
+ while self.rargs:
+ try:
+ self._process_args(self.largs, self.rargs, self.values)
+ except optparse.OptParseError as err:
+ if isinstance(err, self._UNKNOWN_OPTION):
+ self.largs.append(err.opt_str)
+ elif strict:
+ if isinstance(err, self._BAD_OPTION):
+ self.error(str(err))
+ raise
+ return self.check_values(self.values, self.largs)
+
+ def error(self, msg):
+ msg = f'{self.get_prog_name()}: error: {msg.strip()}\n'
+ raise optparse.OptParseError(f'{self.get_usage()}\n{msg}' if self.usage else msg)
+
+ def _get_args(self, args):
+ return sys.argv[1:] if args is None else list(args)
+
+ def _match_long_opt(self, opt):
+ """Improve ambigious argument resolution by comparing option objects instead of argument strings"""
+ try:
+ return super()._match_long_opt(opt)
+ except optparse.AmbiguousOptionError as e:
+ if len({self._long_opt[p] for p in e.possibilities}) == 1:
+ return e.possibilities[0]
+ raise
+
+def create_parser():
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 = list(getattr(parser.values, option.dest)) if append else []
values = [process(value)] if delim is None else list(map(process, value.split(delim)[::-1]))
while values:
actual_val = val = values.pop()
+ if not val:
+ raise optparse.OptionValueError(f'Invalid {option.metavar} for {opt_str}: {value}')
if val == 'all':
current.update(allowed_values)
elif val == '-all':
process_key=str.lower, append=False):
out_dict = dict(getattr(parser.values, option.dest))
+ multiple_args = not isinstance(value, str)
if multiple_keys:
- allowed_keys = r'(%s)(,(%s))*' % (allowed_keys, allowed_keys)
- mobj = re.match(r'(?i)(?P<keys>%s)%s(?P<val>.*)$' % (allowed_keys, delimiter), value)
+ allowed_keys = fr'({allowed_keys})(,({allowed_keys}))*'
+ mobj = re.match(
+ fr'(?i)(?P<keys>{allowed_keys}){delimiter}(?P<val>.*)$',
+ value[0] if multiple_args else value)
if mobj is not None:
keys, val = mobj.group('keys').split(','), mobj.group('val')
+ if multiple_args:
+ val = [val, *value[1:]]
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))
+ f'wrong {opt_str} formatting; it should be {option.metavar}, not "{value}"')
try:
keys = map(process_key, keys) if process_key else keys
val = process(val) if process else val
out_dict[key] = out_dict.get(key, []) + [val] if append else val
setattr(parser.values, option.dest, out_dict)
- # No need to wrap help messages if we're on a wide console
- columns = compat_get_terminal_size().columns
- max_width = columns if columns else 80
- # 47% is chosen because that is how README.md is currently formatted
- # and moving help text even further to the right is undesirable.
- # This can be reduced in the future to get a prettier output
- max_help_position = int(0.47 * max_width)
+ parser = _YoutubeDLOptionParser()
+ alias_group = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Aliases')
+ Formatter = string.Formatter()
- fmt = optparse.IndentedHelpFormatter(width=max_width, max_help_position=max_help_position)
- fmt.format_option_strings = _format_option_string
+ def _create_alias(option, opt_str, value, parser):
+ aliases, opts = value
+ try:
+ nargs = len({i if f == '' else f
+ for i, (_, f, _, _) in enumerate(Formatter.parse(opts)) if f is not None})
+ opts.format(*map(str, range(nargs))) # validate
+ except Exception as err:
+ raise optparse.OptionValueError(f'wrong {opt_str} OPTIONS formatting; {err}')
+ if alias_group not in parser.option_groups:
+ parser.add_option_group(alias_group)
- kw = {
- 'version': __version__,
- 'formatter': fmt,
- 'usage': '%prog [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]',
- 'conflict_handler': 'resolve',
- }
+ aliases = (x if x.startswith('-') else f'--{x}' for x in map(str.strip, aliases.split(',')))
+ try:
+ alias_group.add_option(
+ *aliases, help=opts, nargs=nargs, type='str' if nargs else None,
+ dest='_triggered_aliases', default=collections.defaultdict(int),
+ metavar=' '.join(f'ARG{i}' for i in range(nargs)), action='callback',
+ callback=_alias_callback, callback_kwargs={'opts': opts, 'nargs': nargs})
+ except Exception as err:
+ raise optparse.OptionValueError(f'wrong {opt_str} formatting; {err}')
- parser = optparse.OptionParser(**compat_kwargs(kw))
+ def _alias_callback(option, opt_str, value, parser, opts, nargs):
+ counter = getattr(parser.values, option.dest)
+ counter[opt_str] += 1
+ if counter[opt_str] > parser.ALIAS_TRIGGER_LIMIT:
+ raise optparse.OptionValueError(f'Alias {opt_str} exceeded invocation limit')
+ if nargs == 1:
+ value = [value]
+ assert (nargs == 0 and value is None) or len(value) == nargs
+ parser.rargs[:0] = shlex.split(
+ opts if value is None else opts.format(*map(shlex.quote, value)))
general = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'General Options')
general.add_option(
- '-h', '--help',
- action='help',
+ '-h', '--help', dest='print_help', action='store_true',
help='Print this help text and exit')
general.add_option(
'--version',
general.add_option(
'-U', '--update',
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)')
+ help='Update this program to latest version')
general.add_option(
'-i', '--ignore-errors',
action='store_true', 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 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')
+ help=(
+ 'Use this prefix for unqualified URLs. '
+ 'Eg: "gvsearch2:python" downloads two videos from google videos for the search term "python". '
+ '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', dest='ignoreconfig',
help=(
'Don\'t load any more configuration files except those given by --config-locations. '
'For backward compatibility, if this option is found inside the system configuration file, the user configuration is not loaded. '
- '(Alias: --no-config'))
+ '(Alias: --no-config)'))
general.add_option(
'--no-config-locations',
action='store_const', dest='config_locations', const=[],
'--config-locations',
dest='config_locations', metavar='PATH', action='append',
help=(
- 'Location of the main configuration file; either the path to the config or its containing directory. '
- 'Can be used multiple times and inside other configuration files'))
+ 'Location of the main configuration file; either the path to the config or its containing directory '
+ '("-" for stdin). Can be used multiple times and inside other configuration files'))
general.add_option(
'--flat-playlist',
action='store_const', dest='extract_flat', const='in_playlist', default=False,
general.add_option(
'--mark-watched',
action='store_true', dest='mark_watched', default=False,
- help='Mark videos watched (even with --simulate). Currently only supported for YouTube')
+ help='Mark videos watched (even with --simulate)')
general.add_option(
'--no-mark-watched',
action='store_false', dest='mark_watched',
action='callback', callback=_set_from_options_callback,
callback_kwargs={
'allowed_values': {
- 'filename', 'format-sort', 'abort-on-error', 'format-spec', 'no-playlist-metafiles',
+ 'filename', 'filename-sanitization', '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', 'embed-metadata',
- 'embed-thumbnail-atomicparsley', 'seperate-video-versions', 'no-clean-infojson', 'no-keep-subs',
+ 'embed-thumbnail-atomicparsley', 'seperate-video-versions', 'no-clean-infojson', 'no-keep-subs', 'no-certifi',
}, 'aliases': {
'youtube-dl': ['-multistreams', 'all'],
'youtube-dlc': ['-no-youtube-channel-redirect', '-no-live-chat', 'all'],
'Options that can help keep compatibility with youtube-dl or youtube-dlc '
'configurations by reverting some of the changes made in yt-dlp. '
'See "Differences in default behavior" for details'))
+ general.add_option(
+ '--alias', metavar='ALIASES OPTIONS', dest='_', type='str', nargs=2,
+ action='callback', callback=_create_alias,
+ help=(
+ 'Create aliases for an option string. Unless an alias starts with a dash "-", it is prefixed with "--". '
+ 'Arguments are parsed according to the Python string formatting mini-language. '
+ 'Eg: --alias get-audio,-X "-S=aext:{0},abr -x --audio-format {0}" creates options '
+ '"--get-audio" and "-X" that takes an argument (ARG0) and expands to '
+ '"-S=aext:ARG0,abr -x --audio-format ARG0". All defined aliases are listed in the --help output. '
+ 'Alias options can trigger more aliases; so be carefull to avoid defining recursive options. '
+ f'As a safety measure, each alias may be triggered a maximum of {_YoutubeDLOptionParser.ALIAS_TRIGGER_LIMIT} times. '
+ 'This option can be used multiple times'))
network = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Network Options')
network.add_option(
'--proxy', dest='proxy',
default=None, metavar='URL',
help=(
- 'Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy. To enable '
- 'SOCKS proxy, specify a proper scheme. For example '
- 'socks5://127.0.0.1:1080/. Pass in an empty string (--proxy "") '
- 'for direct connection'))
+ 'Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy. To enable SOCKS proxy, specify a proper scheme. '
+ 'Eg: socks5://user:pass@127.0.0.1:1080/. Pass in an empty string (--proxy "") for direct connection'))
network.add_option(
'--socket-timeout',
dest='socket_timeout', type=float, default=None, metavar='SECONDS',
geo.add_option(
'--geo-bypass',
action='store_true', dest='geo_bypass', default=True,
- help='Bypass geographic restriction via faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header')
+ help='Bypass geographic restriction via faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header (default)')
geo.add_option(
'--no-geo-bypass',
- action='store_false', dest='geo_bypass', default=True,
+ action='store_false', dest='geo_bypass',
help='Do not bypass geographic restriction via faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header')
geo.add_option(
'--geo-bypass-country', metavar='CODE',
'--date',
metavar='DATE', dest='date', default=None,
help=(
- '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)?"'))
+ 'Download only videos uploaded on this date. The date can be "YYYYMMDD" or in the format '
+ '[now|today|yesterday][-N[day|week|month|year]]. Eg: --date today-2weeks'))
selection.add_option(
'--datebefore',
metavar='DATE', dest='datebefore', default=None,
metavar='COUNT', dest='max_views', default=None, type=int,
help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
selection.add_option(
- '--match-filter',
- metavar='FILTER', dest='match_filter', default=None,
+ '--match-filters',
+ metavar='FILTER', dest='match_filter', action='append',
help=(
- 'Generic video filter. Any field (see "OUTPUT TEMPLATE") can be compared with a '
+ 'Generic video filter. Any "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" field can be compared with a '
'number or a string using the operators defined in "Filtering formats". '
- 'You can also simply specify a field to match if the field is present '
- 'and "!field" to check if the field is not present. In addition, '
- 'Python style regular expression matching can be done using "~=", '
- 'and multiple filters can be checked with "&". '
- 'Use a "\\" to escape "&" or quotes if needed. Eg: --match-filter '
- '"!is_live & like_count>?100 & description~=\'(?i)\\bcats \\& dogs\\b\'" '
- 'matches only videos that are not live, has a like count more than 100 '
- '(or the like field is not available), and also has a description '
- 'that contains the phrase "cats & dogs" (ignoring case)'))
+ 'You can also simply specify a field to match if the field is present, '
+ 'use "!field" to check if the field is not present, and "&" to check multiple conditions. '
+ 'Use a "\\" to escape "&" or quotes if needed. If used multiple times, '
+ 'the filter matches if atleast one of the conditions are met. Eg: --match-filter '
+ '!is_live --match-filter "like_count>?100 & description~=\'(?i)\\bcats \\& dogs\\b\'" '
+ 'matches only videos that are not live OR those that have a like count more than 100 '
+ '(or the like field is not available) and also has a description '
+ 'that contains the phrase "cats & dogs" (caseless). '
+ 'Use "--match-filter -" to interactively ask whether to download each video'))
selection.add_option(
'--no-match-filter',
metavar='FILTER', dest='match_filter', action='store_const', const=None,
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')
+ help='Make --break-on-existing, --break-on-reject and --max-downloads 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')
+ help='--break-on-existing and similar options terminates the entire download queue')
selection.add_option(
'--skip-playlist-after-errors', metavar='N',
dest='skip_playlist_after_errors', default=None, type=int,
'--ap-list-mso',
action='store_true', dest='ap_list_mso', default=False,
help='List all supported multiple-system operators')
+ authentication.add_option(
+ '--client-certificate',
+ dest='client_certificate', metavar='CERTFILE',
+ help='Path to client certificate file in PEM format. May include the private key')
+ authentication.add_option(
+ '--client-certificate-key',
+ dest='client_certificate_key', metavar='KEYFILE',
+ help='Path to private key file for client certificate')
+ authentication.add_option(
+ '--client-certificate-password',
+ dest='client_certificate_password', metavar='PASSWORD',
+ help='Password for client certificate private key, if encrypted. '
+ 'If not provided, and the key is encrypted, yt-dlp will ask interactively')
video_format = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Video Format Options')
video_format.add_option(
action='store_true', dest='format_sort_force', metavar='FORMAT', default=False,
help=(
'Force user specified sort order to have precedence over all fields, '
- 'see "Sorting Formats" for more details'))
+ 'see "Sorting Formats" for more details (Alias: --S-force)'))
video_format.add_option(
'--no-format-sort-force',
action='store_false', dest='format_sort_force', metavar='FORMAT', default=False,
- help=(
- 'Some fields have precedence over the user specified sort order (default), '
- 'see "Sorting Formats" for more details'))
+ help='Some fields have precedence over the user specified sort order (default)')
video_format.add_option(
'--video-multistreams',
action='store_true', dest='allow_multiple_video_streams', default=None,
video_format.add_option(
'--check-formats',
action='store_const', const='selected', dest='check_formats', default=None,
- help='Check that the selected formats are actually downloadable')
+ help='Make sure formats are selected only from those that are actually downloadable')
video_format.add_option(
'--check-all-formats',
action='store_true', dest='check_formats',
subtitles.add_option(
'--sub-format',
action='store', dest='subtitlesformat', metavar='FORMAT', default='best',
- help='Subtitle format, accepts formats preference, for example: "srt" or "ass/srt/best"')
+ help='Subtitle format; accepts formats preference, Eg: "srt" or "ass/srt/best"')
subtitles.add_option(
'--sub-langs', '--srt-langs',
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") '
- 'You can prefix the language code with a "-" to exempt it from the requested languages. (Eg: --sub-langs all,-live_chat) '
+ 'You can prefix the language code with a "-" to exclude it from the requested languages. (Eg: --sub-langs all,-live_chat) '
'Use --list-subs for a list of available language tags'))
downloader = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Download Options')
help='Number of retries (default is %default), or "infinite"')
downloader.add_option(
'--file-access-retries',
- dest='file_access_retries', metavar='RETRIES', default=10,
+ dest='file_access_retries', metavar='RETRIES', default=3,
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,
help='Number of retries for a fragment (default is %default), or "infinite" (DASH, hlsnative and ISM)')
+ downloader.add_option(
+ '--retry-sleep',
+ dest='retry_sleep', metavar='[TYPE:]EXPR', default={}, type='str',
+ action='callback', callback=_dict_from_options_callback,
+ callback_kwargs={
+ 'allowed_keys': 'http|fragment|file_access',
+ 'default_key': 'http',
+ }, help=(
+ 'An expression for the time to sleep between retries in seconds (optionally) prefixed '
+ 'by the type of retry (file_access, fragment, http (default)) to apply the sleep to. '
+ 'EXPR can be a number, linear=START[:END[:STEP=1]] or exp=START[:END[:BASE=2]]. '
+ 'This option can be used multiple times to set the sleep for the different retry types. '
+ 'Eg: --retry-sleep linear=1::2 --retry-sleep fragment:exp=1:20'))
downloader.add_option(
'--skip-unavailable-fragments', '--no-abort-on-unavailable-fragment',
action='store_true', dest='skip_unavailable_fragments', default=True,
- help='Skip unavailable fragments for DASH, hlsnative and ISM (default) (Alias: --no-abort-on-unavailable-fragment)')
+ help='Skip unavailable fragments for DASH, hlsnative and ISM downloads (default) (Alias: --no-abort-on-unavailable-fragment)')
downloader.add_option(
'--abort-on-unavailable-fragment', '--no-skip-unavailable-fragments',
action='store_false', dest='skip_unavailable_fragments',
- help='Abort downloading if a fragment is unavailable (Alias: --no-skip-unavailable-fragments)')
+ help='Abort download if a fragment is unavailable (Alias: --no-skip-unavailable-fragments)')
downloader.add_option(
'--keep-fragments',
action='store_true', dest='keep_fragments', default=False,
}, help=(
'Name or path of the external downloader to use (optionally) prefixed by '
'the protocols (http, ftp, m3u8, dash, rstp, rtmp, mms) to use it for. '
- 'Currently supports native, %s (Recommended: aria2c). '
+ f'Currently supports native, {", ".join(list_external_downloaders())}. '
'You can use this option multiple times to set different downloaders for different protocols. '
'For example, --downloader aria2c --downloader "dash,m3u8:native" will use '
'aria2c for http/ftp downloads, and the native downloader for dash/m3u8 downloads '
- '(Alias: --external-downloader)' % ', '.join(list_external_downloaders())))
+ '(Alias: --external-downloader)'))
downloader.add_option(
'--downloader-args', '--external-downloader-args',
metavar='NAME:ARGS', dest='external_downloader_args', default={}, type='str',
callback_kwargs={
'allowed_keys': r'ffmpeg_[io]\d*|%s' % '|'.join(map(re.escape, list_external_downloaders())),
'default_key': 'default',
- 'process': compat_shlex_split
+ 'process': shlex.split
}, help=(
'Give these arguments to the external downloader. '
'Specify the downloader name and the arguments separated by a colon ":". '
workarounds.add_option(
'--user-agent',
metavar='UA', dest='user_agent',
- help='Specify a custom user agent')
+ help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
workarounds.add_option(
'--referer',
metavar='URL', dest='referer', default=None,
- help='Specify a custom referer, use if the video access is restricted to one domain',
- )
+ help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
workarounds.add_option(
'--add-header',
metavar='FIELD:VALUE', dest='headers', default={}, type='str',
action='callback', callback=_dict_from_options_callback,
- callback_kwargs={'multiple_keys': False, 'process_key': None},
+ callback_kwargs={'multiple_keys': False},
help='Specify a custom HTTP header and its value, separated by a colon ":". You can use this option multiple times',
)
workarounds.add_option(
}, help=(
'Field name or output template to print to screen, optionally prefixed with when to print it, separated by a ":". '
'Supported values of "WHEN" are the same as that of --use-postprocessor, and "video" (default). '
- 'Implies --quiet and --simulate (unless --no-simulate is used). This option can be used multiple times'))
+ 'Implies --quiet. Implies --simulate unless --no-simulate or later stages of WHEN are used. '
+ 'This option can be used multiple times'))
+ verbosity.add_option(
+ '--print-to-file',
+ metavar='[WHEN:]TEMPLATE FILE', dest='print_to_file', default={}, type='str', nargs=2,
+ action='callback', callback=_dict_from_options_callback,
+ callback_kwargs={
+ 'allowed_keys': 'video|' + '|'.join(map(re.escape, POSTPROCESS_WHEN)),
+ 'default_key': 'video',
+ 'multiple_keys': False,
+ 'append': True,
+ }, help=(
+ 'Append given template to the file. The values of WHEN and TEMPLATE are same as that of --print. '
+ 'FILE uses the same syntax as the output template. This option can be used multiple times'))
verbosity.add_option(
'-g', '--get-url',
action='store_true', dest='geturl', default=False,
'--write-pages',
action='store_true', dest='write_pages', default=False,
help='Write downloaded intermediary pages to files in the current directory to debug problems')
+ verbosity.add_option(
+ '--load-pages',
+ action='store_true', dest='load_pages', default=False,
+ help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
verbosity.add_option(
'--youtube-print-sig-code',
action='store_true', dest='youtube_print_sig_code', default=False,
verbosity.add_option(
'-C', '--call-home',
dest='call_home', action='store_true', default=False,
- # help='[Broken] Contact the yt-dlp server for debugging')
+ # help='Contact the yt-dlp server for debugging')
help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
verbosity.add_option(
'--no-call-home',
filesystem.add_option(
'--output-na-placeholder',
dest='outtmpl_na_placeholder', metavar='TEXT', default='NA',
- help=('Placeholder value for unavailable meta fields in output filename template (default: "%default")'))
+ help=('Placeholder for unavailable fields in "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" (default: "%default")'))
filesystem.add_option(
'--autonumber-size',
dest='autonumber_size', metavar='NUMBER', type=int,
help='Do not write video description (default)')
filesystem.add_option(
'--write-info-json',
- action='store_true', dest='writeinfojson', default=False,
+ action='store_true', dest='writeinfojson', default=None,
help='Write video metadata to a .info.json file (this may contain personal information)')
filesystem.add_option(
'--no-write-info-json',
action='store_false', dest='allow_playlist_files',
help='Do not write playlist metadata when using --write-info-json, --write-description etc.')
filesystem.add_option(
- '--clean-infojson',
+ '--clean-info-json', '--clean-infojson',
action='store_true', dest='clean_infojson', default=None,
help=(
'Remove some private fields such as filenames from the infojson. '
'Note that it could still contain some personal information (default)'))
filesystem.add_option(
- '--no-clean-infojson',
+ '--no-clean-info-json', '--no-clean-infojson',
action='store_false', dest='clean_infojson',
help='Write all fields to the infojson')
filesystem.add_option(
postproc.add_option(
'--audio-format', metavar='FORMAT', dest='audioformat', default='best',
help=(
- 'Specify audio format to convert the audio to when -x is used. Currently supported formats are: '
- 'best (default) or one of %s' % '|'.join(FFmpegExtractAudioPP.SUPPORTED_EXTS)))
+ 'Format to convert the audio to when -x is used. '
+ f'(currently supported: best (default), {", ".join(FFmpegExtractAudioPP.SUPPORTED_EXTS)}). '
+ 'You can specify multiple rules using similar syntax as --remux-video'))
postproc.add_option(
'--audio-quality', metavar='QUALITY',
dest='audioquality', default='5',
- help='Specify ffmpeg audio quality, insert a value between 0 (best) and 10 (worst) for VBR or a specific bitrate like 128K (default %default)')
+ help=(
+ '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 %default)'))
postproc.add_option(
'--remux-video',
metavar='FORMAT', dest='remuxvideo', default=None,
help=(
- 'Remux the video into another container if necessary (currently supported: %s). '
- '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.' % '|'.join(FFmpegVideoRemuxerPP.SUPPORTED_EXTS)))
+ 'Remux the video into another container if necessary '
+ f'(currently supported: {", ".join(FFmpegVideoRemuxerPP.SUPPORTED_EXTS)}). '
+ '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'))
postproc.add_option(
'--recode-video',
metavar='FORMAT', dest='recodevideo', default=None,
- help=(
- 'Re-encode the video into another format if re-encoding is necessary. '
- 'The syntax and supported formats are the same as --remux-video'))
+ help='Re-encode the video into another format if necessary. The syntax and supported formats are the same as --remux-video')
postproc.add_option(
'--postprocessor-args', '--ppa',
metavar='NAME:ARGS', dest='postprocessor_args', default={}, type='str',
callback_kwargs={
'allowed_keys': r'\w+(?:\+\w+)?',
'default_key': 'default-compat',
- 'process': compat_shlex_split,
+ 'process': shlex.split,
'multiple_keys': False
}, help=(
'Give these arguments to the postprocessors. '
dest='parse_metadata', metavar='FIELDS REGEX REPLACE', action='append', nargs=3,
help='Replace text in a metadata field using the given regex. This option can be used multiple times')
postproc.add_option(
- '--xattrs',
+ '--xattrs', '--xattr',
action='store_true', dest='xattrs', default=False,
help='Write metadata to the video file\'s xattrs (using dublin core and xdg standards)')
postproc.add_option(
metavar='POLICY', dest='concat_playlist', default='multi_video',
choices=('never', 'always', 'multi_video'),
help=(
- 'Concatenate videos in a playlist. One of "never" (default), "always", or '
- '"multi_video" (only when the videos form a single show). '
+ 'Concatenate videos in a playlist. One of "never", "always", or '
+ '"multi_video" (default; only when the videos form a single show). '
'All the video files must have same codecs and number of streams to be concatable. '
'The "pl_video:" prefix can be used with "--paths" and "--output" to '
- 'set the output filename for the split files. See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details'))
+ 'set the output filename for the concatenated files. See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details'))
postproc.add_option(
'--fixup',
metavar='POLICY', dest='fixup', default=None,
help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
postproc.add_option(
'--no-exec-before-download',
- action='store_const', dest='exec_before_dl_cmd', const=[],
+ action='store_const', dest='exec_before_dl_cmd', const=None,
help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
postproc.add_option(
'--convert-subs', '--convert-sub', '--convert-subtitles',
metavar='FORMAT', dest='convertsubtitles', default=None,
help=(
'Convert the subtitles to another format (currently supported: %s) '
- '(Alias: --convert-subtitles)' % '|'.join(FFmpegSubtitlesConvertorPP.SUPPORTED_EXTS)))
+ '(Alias: --convert-subtitles)' % ', '.join(FFmpegSubtitlesConvertorPP.SUPPORTED_EXTS)))
postproc.add_option(
'--convert-thumbnails',
metavar='FORMAT', dest='convertthumbnails', default=None,
help=(
'Convert the thumbnails to another format '
- '(currently supported: %s) ' % '|'.join(FFmpegThumbnailsConvertorPP.SUPPORTED_EXTS)))
+ f'(currently supported: {", ".join(FFmpegThumbnailsConvertorPP.SUPPORTED_EXTS)}). '
+ 'You can specify multiple rules using similar syntax as --remux-video'))
postproc.add_option(
'--split-chapters', '--split-tracks',
dest='split_chapters', action='store_true', default=False,
'--force-keyframes-at-cuts',
action='store_true', dest='force_keyframes_at_cuts', default=False,
help=(
- 'Force keyframes around the chapters before removing/splitting them. '
- 'Requires a re-encode and thus is very slow, but the resulting video '
- 'may have fewer artifacts around the 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'))
postproc.add_option(
'--no-force-keyframes-at-cuts',
action='store_false', dest='force_keyframes_at_cuts',
'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), '
- '"before_dl" (before video download), "post_process" (after video download; default), '
- '"after_move" (after moving file to their final locations), '
+ 'It can be one of "pre_process" (after video extraction), "after_filter" (after video passes filter), '
+ '"before_dl" (before each video download), "post_process" (after each video download; default), '
+ '"after_move" (after moving video file to it\'s final locations), '
'"after_video" (after downloading and processing all formats of a video), '
- 'or "playlist" (end of playlist). '
+ 'or "playlist" (at end of playlist). '
'This option can be used multiple times to add different postprocessors'))
sponsorblock = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'SponsorBlock Options', description=(
'aliases': {'default': ['all']}
}, help=(
'SponsorBlock categories to create chapters for, separated by commas. '
- 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. '
+ f'Available categories are {", ".join(SponsorBlockPP.CATEGORIES.keys())}, all and default (=all). '
+ 'You can prefix the category with a "-" to exclude 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',
'--sponsorblock-chapter-title', metavar='TEMPLATE',
default=DEFAULT_SPONSORBLOCK_CHAPTER_TITLE, dest='sponsorblock_chapter_title',
help=(
- 'The title template for SponsorBlock chapters created by --sponsorblock-mark. '
- 'The same syntax as the output template is used, but the only available fields are '
- 'start_time, end_time, category, categories, name, category_names. Defaults to "%default"'))
+ 'An output template for the title of the SponsorBlock chapters created by --sponsorblock-mark. '
+ 'The only available fields are start_time, end_time, category, categories, name, category_names. '
+ 'Defaults to "%default"'))
sponsorblock.add_option(
'--no-sponsorblock', default=False,
action='store_true', dest='no_sponsorblock',
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