Clarify help of --write-pages (#1853)

[youtube-dl.git] / youtube_dl / __init__.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index 102508cf93e919752c93cef7d1bcf3ee78342aa9..42ab572f233e978db634a06d05175a0cf58fc0e7 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
                          default=None, type=int)
     selection.add_option('--download-archive', metavar='FILE',
                          dest='download_archive',
-                         help='Download only videos not present in the archive file. Record all downloaded videos in it.')
+                         help='Download only videos not present in the archive file. Record the IDs of all downloaded videos in it.')
 
 
     authentication.add_option('-u', '--username',
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
             help='print downloaded pages to debug problems(very verbose)')
     verbosity.add_option('--write-pages',
             action='store_true', dest='write_pages', default=False,
-            help='Write downloaded pages to files in the current directory')
+            help='Write downloaded intermediary pages to files in the current directory to debug problems')
     verbosity.add_option('--youtube-print-sig-code',
             action='store_true', dest='youtube_print_sig_code', default=False,
             help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP)
@@ -651,6 +651,7 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
         'download_archive': opts.download_archive,
         'cookiefile': opts.cookiefile,
         'nocheckcertificate': opts.no_check_certificate,
+        'proxy': opts.proxy,
     }
 
     with YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl: