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 27886593b4f40a2a4108b867bb7ca71b26379e93..42ab572f233e978db634a06d05175a0cf58fc0e7 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ __authors__  = (
     'Jelle van der Waa',
     'Marcin Cieślak',
     'Anton Larionov',
+    'Takuya Tsuchida',
 )
 
 __license__ = 'Public Domain'
@@ -205,7 +206,9 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
             dest='playlistend', metavar='NUMBER', help='playlist video to end at (default is last)', default=-1)
     selection.add_option('--match-title', dest='matchtitle', metavar='REGEX',help='download only matching titles (regex or caseless sub-string)')
     selection.add_option('--reject-title', dest='rejecttitle', metavar='REGEX',help='skip download for matching titles (regex or caseless sub-string)')
-    selection.add_option('--max-downloads', metavar='NUMBER', dest='max_downloads', help='Abort after downloading NUMBER files', default=None)
+    selection.add_option('--max-downloads', metavar='NUMBER',
+                         dest='max_downloads', type=int, default=None,
+                         help='Abort after downloading NUMBER files')
     selection.add_option('--min-filesize', metavar='SIZE', dest='min_filesize', help="Do not download any videos smaller than SIZE (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)", default=None)
     selection.add_option('--max-filesize', metavar='SIZE', dest='max_filesize', help="Do not download any videos larger than SIZE (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)", default=None)
     selection.add_option('--date', metavar='DATE', dest='date', help='download only videos uploaded in this date', default=None)
@@ -217,7 +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',
@@ -314,7 +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)
@@ -648,6 +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: