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@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ is too old.
You can change the file name of the video using the -o option, like in
youtube-dl -o vid.flv "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar".
-Read the Output template section for more details on this.
+Read the Output template section for more details on
+this.
Some videos require an account to be downloaded, mostly because they're
flagged as mature content. You can pass the program a username and password
@@ -130,15 +131,27 @@ literal title in the filename with the -l or --literal option.
by using the -f or --format option. This makes it possible to download high
quality versions of the videos when available.
-youtube-dl can attempt to download the best quality version of
-a video by using the -b or --best-quality option.
+The -b or --best-quality option is an alias for -f 18.
-youtube-dl can attempt to download the mobile quality version of
-a video by using the -m or --mobile-version option.
+The -m or --mobile-version option is an alias for -f 17.
Normally, the program will stop on the first error, but you can tell it
to attempt to download every video with the -i or --ignore-errors option.
+The -a or --batch-file option lets you specify a file to read URLs from.
+The file must contain one URL per line.
+
+For YouTube, you can also use the URL of a playlist, and it will download
+all the videos in that playlist.
+
+For YouTube, you can also use the special word ytsearch to
+download search results. With ytsearch it will download the
+first search result. With ytsearchN, where N is a number, it
+will download the first N results. With ytsearchall it will
+download every result for that search. In most systems you'll need to
+use quotes for multiple words. Example: youtube-dl "ytsearch3:cute
+kittens".
+
youtube-dl honors the http_proxy environment variable
if you want to use a proxy. Set it to something like
http://proxy.example.com:8080, and do not leave the http://
@@ -171,7 +184,7 @@ are using.
SHA256: @PROGRAM_SHA256SUM@
-Output template
+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
@@ -189,9 +202,9 @@ 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.
+title, restricted to alphanumeric characters and dashes.
ext: The sequence will be replaced by the appropriate
-extension.
+extension (like flv or mp4).
As you may have guessed, the default template is %(id)s.%(ext)s.
@@ -203,6 +216,7 @@ When some command line options are used, it's replaced by other templates like
- Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez: program core, YouTube.com InfoExtractor,
metacafe.com InfoExtractor and YouTube playlist InfoExtractor.
+- Danny Colligan: YouTube search InfoExtractor, ideas and patches.
- Many other people contributing patches, code, ideas and kind messages. Too
many to be listed here. You know who you are. Thank you very much.