YOUTUBE-DL(1)                                User Contributed Perl Documentation                                YOUTUBE-DL(1)



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).

       --playlist-start=N
           The number N of the video in a playlist where we should start downlading (default is 1).

       --playlist-end=N
           The number N of the video in a playlist where we should stop downloading (default is -1, which stands for the last
           video in the playlist).

       --dump-user-agent
           Display how youtube-dl will identify itself (the User-Agent string) to the remote server.

       -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.

           For youtube.com, in particular, the meaning of the format codes is given as:

           WebM video at 480p: 43
           WebM video at 720p: 45
           H264 video in MP4 container at 480p: 18
           H264 video in MP4 container at 720p: 22
           H264 video in MP4 container at 1080p: 37
           H264 video in FLV container at 360p: 34
           H264 video in FLV container at 480p: 35
           H263 video at 240p: 5
           3GP video: 17

           Note that not all videos are available in all formats and that other sites supported by youtube-dl may have
           different conventions for their video formats.

       --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.

       --get-filename
           Simulate the operation, like quiet mode, but print the output filename.

       --no-progress
           Do not print the progress bar during downloads.

       --console-title
           If possible, set the title of the console window with the progress of the download.

       -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.

       -A, --auto-number
           When downloading multiple videos from a playlist, automatically number them, in sequence, starting from 00000.

       -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.

       --cookies=F
           Store the received cookies to file F (the "cookie jar").

       --no-part
           Do not append the .part suffix do files that have not yet been completed.

       --no-mtime
           Do not use the Last-modified header to set the file modification time.

       --extract-audio
           Create an audio-only file extracted from the video downloaded. Requires that ffmpeg and ffprobe be installed.

       --audio-format=FORMAT
           Set the audio format to be used for the extraction. Possible values are best, aac, mp3, with best being the
           default.

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>.



perl v5.12.4                                              2011-08-05                                            YOUTUBE-DL(1)