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youtube-dl

NAME

youtube-dl - download videos from youtube.com

SYNOPSIS

   youtube-dl [options] url ...
 
 

DESCRIPTION

youtube-dl is a script to download videos from youtube.com.

Once it is installed in your system, you should be able to call it from the command line. Usage instructions are easy. Use youtube-dl followed by a video URL or identifier. As an example, consider:

   youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar"
 
 

The video will be saved to the file "foobar.flv" in that example. Many YouTube.com videos are in Flash Video format and their extension would be "flv". Other videos are encoded in H.264 and these usually have the extension "mp4". In Linux and other unices, video players using a recent version of ffmpeg can play them. That includes MPlayer, VLC, xine, among others.

OPTIONS

youtube-dl accepts options in the following categories

-h, --help

Print help text and exit.

-v, --version

Print program version and exit.

-U, --update

Update this program to the latest stable version.

-i, --ignore-errors

Ignore errors during download and continue processing.

-r L, --rate-limit=L

Limit the download speed to the specified maximum L (e.g., 50k or 44.6m).

-R R, --retries=R

Number R of retries for a given download (default is 10).

-u UN, --username=UN

Specify the youtube account username UN. Some videos require an account to be downloaded, mostly because they're flagged as mature content.

-p PW, --password=PW

Like the username, specifies the account password to be PW.

-n, --netrc

Get authentication data from the standard unix .netrc file on the user's home directory. The machine name is youtube regarding this usage.

-f FMT, --format=FMT

Specify the video format (quality) in which to download the video. Note that not all videos are available in all formats.

-b, --best-quality

This option is deprecated, does nothing currently, and is expected to be removed in a next release, as it is the current behavior of youtube-dl.

-m, --mobile-version

Synonymous to the option ``-f 17'', to download videos playable on some mobile phones.

--all-formats

Downloads all formats for which a video may be available.

--max-quality=FMT

Limit the maximum quality of the videos to downloads to FMT.

-q, --quiet

Activates quiet mode, avoiding many messages being written to the terminal.

-s, --simulate

Simulate the operation, but do not download the video. Useful for testing.

-g, --get-url

Simulate the operation, like quiet mode, but show the URL that would be used to download the video. Can be used with other download tools like wget or aria2c.

-e, --get-title

Simulate the operation, like quiet mode, but show the title of the video that would be downloaded.

--get-thumbnail

Simulate the operation, like quiet mode, but print the URL of of the video's thumbnail.

--get-description

Simulate the operation, like quiet mode, but print the description of the video.

--no-progress

Do not print the progress bar during downloads.

-t, --title

Use the title of the video in the file name used to download the video.

-l, --literal

Use the literal title of the video in file name used to download the video. Can contain ``weird'' characters that are not filtered like with the -t option.

-o TPL, --output=TPL

Specify a template TPL for the names of the files to be created when they are downloaded. The default filename is video_id.flv. 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.

-a F, --batch-file=F

Specify the name of a file containing URLs of videos to download from youtube in batch mode. The file must contain one URL per line.

-w, --no-overwrites

Do no overwrite already existing files.

-c, --continue

Resume partially downloaded files.

OUTPUT TEMPLATE

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 youtube-dl -o funny_video.flv ``http://some/video''. However, it may contain special sequences that will be replaced when downloading each video.

The special sequences have the format "%(NAME)s". To clarify, that's a percent symbol followed by a name in parenthesis, followed by a lowercase S. Allowed names are:

id

The sequence will be replaced by the video identifier.

url

The sequence will be replaced by the video URL.

uploader

The sequence will be replaced by the nickname of the person who uploaded the video.

title

The sequence will be replaced by the literal video title.

stitle

The sequence will be replaced by a simplified video title, restricted to alphanumeric characters and dashes.

ext

The sequence will be replaced by the appropriate extension (like "flv" or "mp4").

epoch

The sequence will be replaced by the Unix epoch when creating the file.

As you may have guessed, the default template is "%(id)s.%(ext)s". When some command line options are used, it's replaced by other templates like "%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s". You can specify your own.

AUTHOR

youtube-dl was written by Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez and many contributors from all around the internet. This manpage was written by Rogerio Brito <rbrito@users.sf.net>.