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| <h1>youtube-dl: Download videos from YouTube.com</h1> | |||
| <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 licensed under the MIT License, which | |||
| means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like | |||
| complying with a few simple conditions.</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> | |||
| <p><strong>Related projects</strong>: | |||
| <a href="../metacafe-dl/">metacafe-dl</a> | |||
| <a href="../pornotube-dl/">pornotube-dl</a> | |||
| </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>.</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>Combined with the above option, the -2 or --title-too option tells the | |||
| program to print the video title too.</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> 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> | |||
| <p id="copyright">Copyright © 2006-2007 Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez</p> | |||
| </body> | |||
| </html> | |||