* `~/yt-dlp.conf`
* `~/yt-dlp.conf.txt`
- Note that `~` points to `C:\Users\<user name>` on windows. Also, `%XDG_CONFIG_HOME%` defaults to `~/.config` if undefined
+ `%XDG_CONFIG_HOME%` defaults to `~/.config` if undefined. On windows, `~` points to %HOME% if present, `%USERPROFILE%` (generally `C:\Users\<user name>`) or `%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%`.
1. **System Configuration**: `/etc/yt-dlp.conf`
For example, with the following configuration file yt-dlp will always extract the audio, not copy the mtime, use a proxy and save all videos under `YouTube` directory in your home directory:
asyncio.run = compat_asyncio_run
+# Python 3.8+ does not honor %HOME% on windows, but this breaks compatibility with youtube-dl
+# See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/792
+# https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html#os.path.expanduser
+if compat_os_name in ('nt', 'ce') and 'HOME' in os.environ:
+ _userhome = os.environ['HOME']
+
+ def compat_expanduser(path):
+ if not path.startswith('~'):
+ return path
+ i = path.replace('\\', '/', 1).find('/') # ~user
+ if i < 0:
+ i = len(path)
+ userhome = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(_userhome), path[1:i]) if i > 1 else _userhome
+ return userhome + path[i:]
+else:
+ compat_expanduser = os.path.expanduser
+
+
# Deprecated
compat_basestring = str
compat_cookies_SimpleCookie = compat_cookies.SimpleCookie
compat_etree_Element = etree.Element
compat_etree_register_namespace = etree.register_namespace
-compat_expanduser = os.path.expanduser
compat_get_terminal_size = shutil.get_terminal_size
compat_getenv = os.getenv
compat_getpass = getpass.getpass