--no-progress Do not print progress bar
--console-title Display progress in console titlebar
-v, --verbose Print various debugging information
- --dump-pages Print downloaded pages to debug problems (very verbose)
+ --dump-pages Print downloaded pages encoded using base64 to debug problems (very verbose)
--write-pages Write downloaded intermediary pages to files in the current directory to debug problems
--print-traffic Display sent and read HTTP traffic
-C, --call-home Contact the youtube-dl server for debugging
--embed-thumbnail Embed thumbnail in the audio as cover art
--add-metadata Write metadata to the video file
--metadata-from-title FORMAT Parse additional metadata like song title / artist from the video title. The format syntax is the same as --output, the parsed
- parameters replace existing values. Additional templates: %(album), %(artist). Example: --metadata-from-title "%(artist)s -
+ parameters replace existing values. Additional templates: %(album)s, %(artist)s. Example: --metadata-from-title "%(artist)s -
%(title)s" matches a title like "Coldplay - Paradise"
--xattrs Write metadata to the video file's xattrs (using dublin core and xdg standards)
--fixup POLICY Automatically correct known faults of the file. One of never (do nothing), warn (only emit a warning), detect_or_warn(the default;