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- <h1>youtube-dl: Download videos from YouTube.com</h1>
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- <p class="smallnote">(and more...)</p>
-
- <h2>What is it?</h2>
-
- <p><em>youtube-dl</em> is a small command-line program to download videos
- from YouTube.com. It requires the <a href="http://www.python.org/">Python
- interpreter</a>, version 2.4 or later, and it's not platform specific.
- It should work in your Unix box, in Windows or in Mac OS X. The latest version
- is <strong>@PROGRAM_VERSION@</strong>. It's released to the public domain,
- which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.</p>
-
- <p>I'll try to keep it updated if YouTube.com changes the way you access
- their videos. After all, it's a simple and short program. However, I can't
- guarantee anything. If you detect it stops working, check for new versions
- and/or inform me about the problem, indicating the program version you
- are using. If the program stops working and I can't solve the problem but
- you have a solution, I'd like to know it. If that happens and you feel you
- can maintain the program yourself, tell me. My contact information is
- at <a href="http://freshmeat.net/~rg3/">freshmeat.net</a>.</p>
-
- <p>Thanks for all the feedback received so far. I'm glad people find my
- program useful.</p>
-
- <h2>Usage instructions</h2>
-
- <p>In Windows, once you have installed the Python interpreter, save the
- program with the <em>.py</em> extension and put it somewhere in the PATH.
- Try to follow the
- <a href="http://rg03.wordpress.com/youtube-dl-under-windows-xp/">guide to
- install youtube-dl under Windows XP</a>.</p>
-
- <p>In Unix, download it, give it execution permission and copy it to one
- of the PATH directories (typically, <em>/usr/local/bin</em>).</p>
-
- <p>After that, you should be able to call it from the command line as
- <em>youtube-dl</em> or <em>youtube-dl.py</em>. I will use <em>youtube-dl</em>
- in the following examples. Usage instructions are easy. Use <em>youtube-dl</em>
- followed by a video URL or identifier. Example: <em>youtube-dl
- "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar"</em>. The video will be saved
- to the file <em>foobar.flv</em> in that example. As YouTube.com
- videos are in Flash Video format, their extension should be <em>flv</em>.
- In Linux and other unices, video players using a recent version of
- <em>ffmpeg</em> can play them. That includes MPlayer, VLC, etc. Those two
- work under Windows and other platforms, but you could also get a
- specific FLV player of your taste.</p>
-
- <p>If you try to run the program and you receive an error message containing the
- keyword <em>SyntaxError</em> near the end, it means your Python interpreter
- is too old.</p>
-
- <h2>More usage tips</h2>
-
- <ul>
-
- <li>You can change the file name of the video using the -o option, like in
- <em>youtube-dl -o vid.flv "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar"</em>.
- Read the <em>Output template</em> section for more details on this.</li>
-
- <li>Some videos require an account to be downloaded, mostly because they're
- flagged as mature content. You can pass the program a username and password
- for a YouTube.com account with the -u and -p options, like <em>youtube-dl
- -u myusername -p mypassword "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar"</em>.</li>
-
- <li>The account data can also be read from the user .netrc file by indicating
- the -n or --netrc option. The machine name is <em>youtube</em> in that
- case.</li>
-
- <li>The <em>simulate mode</em> (activated with -s or --simulate) can be used
- to just get the real video URL and use it with a download manager if you
- prefer that option.</li>
-
- <li>The <em>quiet mode</em> (activated with -q or --quiet) can be used to
- supress all output messages. This allows, in systems featuring /dev/stdout
- and other similar special files, outputting the video data to standard output
- in order to pipe it to another program without interferences.</li>
-
- <li>The program can be told to simply print the final video URL to standard
- output using the -g or --get-url option.</li>
-
- <li>In a similar line, the -e or --get-title option tells the program to print
- the video title.</li>
-
- <li>The default filename is <em>video_id.flv</em>. But you can also use the
- video title in the filename with the -t or --title option, or preserve the
- literal title in the filename with the -l or --literal option.</li>
-
- <li>You can make the program append <em>&fmt=something</em> to the URL
- by using the -f or --format option. This makes it possible to download high
- quality versions of the videos when available.</li>
-
- <li><em>youtube-dl</em> can attempt to download the best quality version of
- a video by using the -b or --best-quality option.</li>
-
- <li><em>youtube-dl</em> can attempt to download the mobile quality version of
- a video by using the -m or --mobile-version option.</li>
-
- <li>Normally, the program will stop on the first error, but you can tell it
- to attempt to download every video with the -i or --ignore-errors option.</li>
-
- <li><em>youtube-dl</em> honors the <em>http_proxy</em> environment variable
- if you want to use a proxy. Set it to something like
- <em>http://proxy.example.com:8080</em>, and do not leave the <em>http://</em>
- prefix out.</li>
-
- <li>You can get the program version by calling it as <em>youtube-dl
- -v</em> or <em>youtube-dl --version</em>.</li>
-
- <li>For usage instructions, use <em>youtube-dl -h</em> or <em>youtube-dl
- --help.</em></li>
-
- <li>You can cancel the program at any time pressing Ctrl+C. It may print
- some error lines saying something about <em>KeyboardInterrupt</em>.
- That's ok.</li>
-
- </ul>
-
- <h2>Download it</h2>
-
- <p>Note that if you directly click on these hyperlinks, your web browser will
- most likely display the program contents. It's usually better to
- right-click on it and choose the appropriate option, normally called <em>Save
- Target As</em> or <em>Save Link As</em>, depending on the web browser you
- are using.</p>
-
- <p><a href="youtube-dl">@PROGRAM_VERSION@</a></p>
- <ul>
- <li><strong>MD5</strong>: @PROGRAM_MD5SUM@</li>
- <li><strong>SHA1</strong>: @PROGRAM_SHA1SUM@</li>
- <li><strong>SHA256</strong>: @PROGRAM_SHA256SUM@</li>
- </ul>
-
- <h2>Output template</h2>
-
- <p>The -o option allows users to indicate a template for the output file names.
- The basic usage is not to set any template arguments when downloading a single
- file, like in <em>youtube-dl -o funny_video.flv 'http://some/video'</em>.
- However, it may contain special sequences that will be replaced when
- downloading each video. The special sequences have the format
- <strong>%(NAME)s</strong>. To clarify, that's a percent symbol followed by a
- name in parenthesis, followed by a lowercase S. Allowed names are:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li><em>id</em>: The sequence will be replaced by the video identifier.</li>
- <li><em>url</em>: The sequence will be replaced by the video URL.</li>
- <li><em>uploader</em>: The sequence will be replaced by the nickname of the
- person who uploaded the video.</li>
- <li><em>title</em>: The sequence will be replaced by the literal video
- title.</li>
- <li><em>stitle</em>: The sequence will be replaced by a simplified video
- title.</li>
- <li><em>ext</em>: The sequence will be replaced by the appropriate
- extension.</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>As you may have guessed, the default template is <em>%(id)s.%(ext)s</em>.
- When some command line options are used, it's replaced by other templates like
- <em>%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s</em>. You can specify your own.</p>
-
- <h2>Authors</h2>
-
- <ul>
- <li>Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez: program core, YouTube.com InfoExtractor,
- metacafe.com InfoExtractor and YouTube playlist InfoExtractor.</li>
- <li>Many other people contributing patches, code, ideas and kind messages. Too
- many to be listed here. You know who you are. Thank you very much.</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p class="smallnote">Copyright © 2006-2007 Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez</p>
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