HTMLParser, which is used by extract_attributes, already unescapes
attribute values with HTMLParser.unescape. They shouldn't be unescaped
again, to there may be parsing errors.
Ref: #11219, #11522
Hi, it's not always a default behaviour, but when you use `sudo pip` you most likely may want to use `-H` flag to set HOME value to directory of the target user :)
A configfile can now be passed to youtube_dl.
undo changes
Raise parser error if file not found, change to user_conf
change metavar hand helptext for --configfile
Fix help for --configfile
Update help for --configfile
Numbering placeholder in configfile error msg
minor fix
Change option --configfile top --config-file
Fix -config-file error
1. ProxyError now inherits from socket.error instead of IOError
The only functions socks.py overrides are connect and connect_ex. In
Python 2.x and Python <= 3.2, socket functions raises socket.error. In
newer Python versions, those functions raises OSError instead. The name
socket.error is preserved as an alias of OSError for backward
compability. To keep socks.py compatible with Python's standard library,
it should raise the same exception as raw sockets.
See PEP 3151 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3151/) for more
information about the change in Python 3.3.
2. Raise EOFError instead of IOError when the socket receives less data
than it expects
There's no common convention, but both ftplib and telnetlib raises
EOFError for similar situations. socks.py follows them.
Closes#11355
In #11355, only Python 2 is affected. In Python 3, both socket.error and
IOError are alias of OSError, so AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open correctly
catches the error and thus InfoExtractor._is_valid_url works fine.
CC seems to have added yet another indirection for full episodes - the mgid is now only in a linked feed.
This may be a little brittle, but it's better than failing outright.
Plus, the current The Daily Show episode now works :)
In pycodestyle 2.1.0, E305 was introduced, which requires two blank
lines after top level declarations, too.
See https://github.com/PyCQA/pycodestyle/issues/400
See also #10689; thanks @stepshal for first mentioning this issue and
initial patches
Closes#11073
In the provided link, SWF params give up to 720P, and VideoConfig
gives 1080P for both best and bestvideo. I guess all Facebook videos
supports HTML5 now, so I remove the old detection for SWF params
When doing version probes for ffmpeg, do the
equivalent of calling it as:
ffmpeg -version <&-
Where <&- is shell syntax for closing stdin before calling the
program. This is roughly equivalent to </dev/null without actually
opening /dev/null.
This prevents ffmpeg -version from hanging when run in the background.
Fixes#955.
The reason is that ffmpeg tries to manipulate stdin to set up terminal
characteristic, and that causes the kernel to suspend the parent
process (youtube-dl).
Note that closing stdin is achieved by calling subprocess.Popen() with
stdin set to subprocess.PIPE and without passing any input to
Popen.communicate(). This is somewhat subtle.
This reverts commit 7360db05b4.
This commit was added as an attempt to fix#6046. Unfortunately, the fix
is completely wrong. As reported on #10359, embedded thumbnails are not
displayed in VLC, and Se7en on IRC reports that the embedded thumbnail
misleads mpv as well.
The correct way is using -attachment of ffmpeg, while the current
run_ffmpeg_multiple_files API can't handle it cleanly.
The example in #10813 requires TV provider authentication in Firefox,
while youtube-dl can download it directly with an US proxy.
I'm not sure whether the mgid fix is cmt-specific or it applies to all
mtv-based sites. I keep it in cmt.py until similar patterns are found in
other websites.
I change the URL of the third test case, because now the original URL
does not contain a video anymore, and there's no easy to get the real
URL from the /film/ one.
Shell assignment operator in BSD make != is ported to GNU make in
version 4.0, so 3.x doesn't work. I choose to drop BSD make support as
installing GNU make on *BSD systems is easier than installing newer GNU
make.
Closes#9387
The shell assignment operator != was introduced in GNU make 4.0, or
specifically the commit in [1]. This fix removes such usages and
fallback to a more portable syntax. Tested with:
* GNU make 3.82 on CentOS 7.2
* bmake 20150910 on CentOS 7.2, source RPM from Fedora 24 [2]
* GNU make 4.2.1 on Arch Linux (Arch official package)
* bmake 20160926 on Arch Linux (Arch official package)
* GNU make 3.82 on Arch Linux (Compiled from source)
* Apple bsdmake-24 on macOS Sierra, binary package from Homebrew
Thanks @bdeyal for the feedback of the first tests
[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/commit/?id=b34438bee83ee906a23b881f257e684a0993b9b1
[2] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=716769
Ref: #10625
In a strict sense, <track>s with kind=captions are not subtitles. [1]
openload misuses this attribute, and I guess there will be more
examples, so I add it to common.py.
Also allow extracting information for subtitles-only <video> or <audio>
tags, which is the case of openload.
[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/embedded-content-0.html#attr-track-kind
- Eliminate segment_urls and initialization_url
+ Introduce manifest_url (manifest may contain unfragmented data in this case url will be used for direct media URL and manifest_url for manifest itself correspondingly)
* Rewrite dashsegments downloader to use fragments data
* Improve generic mpd extraction
Update of the "FranceInter" radio extractor : webpages HTML structure
had changed, the extractor didn't work. So I updated this extractor to
get the mp3 URL and all details.
- add --ap-username and --ap-password option to specify
TV provider username and password in the cmd line
- add --ap-retries option to limit the number of retries
- add --list-ap-msi-ids to list the supported TV Providers
This fixes an error in _parse_html5_media_entries in case
an audio or video tag directly uses a src attribute insted
of <source> elements in it's body.
It's the same video player, the only difference is that the video player
is loaded differently, and certain metadata (title and description) is
not available under dr.dk/mu, so make it by default get that from some
of the html meta tags.
Skip the dr.dk/tv test
dr.dk/tv videos are only available for between 7 and 90 days due to
Danish law, and in certain cases may be readded. Skip this test as it is
no longer available.
Closes#10464
According to a screenshot in http://tieba.baidu.com/p/4691302183,
thvideo.tv is shut down "temporarily". I see no clues that it will be up
again, so I remove it here.
Closes#10363
In the original mtvservices:embedded test case, config.xml is still used
to get the feed URL. Some other examples, including test_Generic_40
(http://www.vulture.com/2016/06/new-key-peele-sketches-released.html),
and the video mentioned in #10363, use another endpoint to get the feed
URL. The 'index.html' approach works for the original test case, too. So
I didn't keep the old approach.
Bilibili now uses emscripten, which is very difficult for reverse
engineering. I don't expect it to be fixed in near future, so I mark
it as broken.
Ref: #10375
All starts from #10363. The test case in mtvservices:embedded uses
config.xml, while the video from #10363 and the test case in generic.py
is broken. Both uses index.html for fetching the feed URL.
Before applying this patch, when downloading resources from xiami.com, it crashes with these:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/phi/.local/bin/youtube-dl", line 11, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/home/phi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 433, in main
_real_main(argv)
File "/home/phi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 423, in _real_main
retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
File "/home/phi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1786, in download
url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
File "/home/phi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 691, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/home/phi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 347, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/home/phi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/xiami.py", line 116, in _real_extract
return self._extract_tracks(self._match_id(url))[0]
File "/home/phi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/xiami.py", line 43, in _extract_tracks
'%s/%s%s' % (self._API_BASE_URL, item_id, '/type/%s' % typ if typ else ''), item_id)
File "/home/phi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 562, in _download_json
json_string, video_id, transform_source=transform_source, fatal=fatal)
File "/home/phi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 568, in _parse_json
return json.loads(json_string)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/json/__init__.py", line 312, in loads
s.__class__.__name__))
TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'NoneType'
This patch solves exactly this problem.
By default io.open() convert all '\n' occurrences to '\r\n' when writing
files. If the content already contains '\r\n', it will be converted to
'\r\r\n', breaking some video players.
1. Remove MTVIggyIE. All www.mtviggy.com URLs now redirects to
www.mtv.com
2. Fix MTVDEIE
3. Return multiple URLs from _transform_rtmp_url. This is for
tosh.cc.com
This reverts commit ccff2c404d.
Fixes#10081.
The new approach breaks embedding subtitles into video-only or
audio-only files. FFMpeg provides a trick: add '?' after the argument of
'-map' so that a missing stream is ignored. For example:
opts = [
'-map', '0:v?',
'-c:v', 'copy',
'-map', '0:a?',
'-c:a', 'copy',
# other options...
]
Unfortunately, such a format is not implemented in avconv, either.
I guess adding '-ignore_unknown' if self.basename == 'ffmpeg' is the
best solution. However, the example mentioned in #9063 no longer serves
problematic files, so I can't test it. I'll reopen#9063 and wait for
another example so that I can test '-ignore_unknown'.
The configuration file contents are being returned as unicode now, so decoding them is no longer necessary.
(Run python2 with -3 to see the warning before this commit)
there was a misunderstanding about the reason of 403 response
the problem happen only when the user use aria2c as a downloader
a1f6f5c768 (commitcomment-18107559)
This will allow us to decide much faster that we don't want an already archived video,
and will allow having to download webpages for each video that has already been downloaded,
thus significantly speeding up the archival of channels that have no new content.
The problem was in the following code:
class ArteTVPlus7IE(ArteTVBaseIE):
...
@classmethod
def suitable(cls, url):
return False if ArteTVPlaylistIE.suitable(url) else super(ArteTVPlus7IE, cls).suitable(url)
And its sublcasses like ArteTVCinemaIE.
Since in the lazy_extractors.py file ArteTVCinemaIE was not a subclass of ArteTVPlus7IE, super(ArteTVPlus7IE, cls) failed.
To fix it we have to make it a subclass. Since the order of _ALL_CLASSES is arbitrary we must sort them so that the base classes are defined first. We also must add base classes like YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor.
+ [svt:play] Add fallback path looking for video id and fix extraction for oppetarkiv
* [svt:base] Detect geo restriction
* [svt:base] Extract series related metadata
youtube-dl expects the format items to be returned as a list,
but when there's only one item Facebook returns a dict instead,
this wraps the dict in a list if necessary
In order to add a new key to both __objects and __functions dicts on jsinterp.py, it is
necessary to first verify if a key was present and if not, create the key and
assign it to a value.
However, this can be done with a single step using dict setdefault method.
Removed print statement from code.
Replaced two regex searches with the corret ones.
Removed some unnecessary semicolumns
fixed title extraction
refactored everything to search_regex
processed comments on commit 5650b0d, fixed feedback from flake8
Improved regexes and returns info dict now.
Added support for closertotruth interview URL
Added support for episodes page
Such an URL comes from http://www.gametrailers.com/. This is originally
a test case in GenericIE, but now seems all GameTrailers videos are on
YouTube.
Added extractor of loc.gov, which closes#3188. I am not an experienced programmer, so I am sure I did a bunch of mistakes, but the extractor works (for me at least).
[LibraryOfCongress] don't use video_id for _search_regex()
[LibraryOfCongress] Improvements
Recently eporner slightly changed the URL layout, the ID that used to be
digits only are now digits and letters, so youtube-dl falls back to
the generic extractor that doesn't work.
Fix the matching regex to allow letters in ID.
[v2: added a test case]
* [bandcamp] raise ExtractorError when track not streamable
* [bandcamp] update md5 for second test
* don't rely on json-data, but just check for 'file'
* don't rely on presence of 'file'
In this test case, sometimes HLS is the best format while sometimes HDS
is. To prevent occasional test failures, force HDS to be the best
format. In the past, testing against HDS formats causes the same error
as #9214, which is fixed as #9377 landed.
Live streams has no playlist title, use title of the stream containing
TV channel name. Internal m3u8 handler doesn't seem to handle well
continuous streams. Add test for live stream. Remove no longer
reachable test.
- Fixed the format_id for the 720p progressive videostream and added the video's resolution.
- The adaptive videostreams have the m3u8-extension, so I removed the confusing mp4-extension in order to make a better distinction between the these and the progressive videostreams.
Announcement from their homepage:
```
MaleMotion is closed
After another system crash, I'm forced to close the site
This week all content will be erased
Don't forget to cancel your subscription if any !
```
Closes#9311.
It seems that the "current show" already uses the new WDR video-player,
while all the others videos still use the old player.
I just added the current show URL to the normal WDR-extractor, which
works fine. This commit needs my changes from PR #8842 that fix the
support for WDR.
The WDR relaunched their site on 2016-02-23 which not only changed the
URL-schema completely but also the layout of their pages.
Apparently the whole "mediathek" now runs on the wdr-domain, so no
separate URL for funkhauseuropa anymore.
There seems to be no explicit handling of video-sizes on the page or in
the URLs anymore. There seems to be only one size for HTML5, but still
several sizes for flash. The extractor adds all to the list of formats.
There is no metadata for the HTML5-stream, so that the best flash-stream
will always be considered as the "best" format. At least in my tests
this seemed to be true anyway.
1. Videos on ubu.com are now hosted on Vimeo
2. The duration is far from correct, and may not exist on other videos
(For example http://ubu.com/film/hammons_king.html)
The server serves malformed header "Content Type: text/xml" for the XML
request (it should be Content-Type but not Content Type). Python 3.x,
which uses email.feedparser rejects such headers. As a result,
Content-Encoding header is not parsed, so the returned content is kept
not decompressed, and thus XML parsing error.
Also, m3u8_url extraction should be fatal as all formats depends
directly or indirectly on it.
This change fixes test_Generic_26 and TestFunnyOrDieSubtitles
'make lazy-extractors' creates the youtube_dl/extractor/lazy_extractors.py (imported by youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py), which contains simplified classes that only have the 'suitable' class method and that load the appropiate class with the '__new__' method when a instance is created.
previously extraction has been delegated to crackle to extract more info
and subtitles #6106 but some of the episodes can't be extracted using
crackle #8995.
Add auto-updating of youtube-dl version in ISSUE_TEMPLATE
Move parts of template text and adopt makefile to new format
Moved the 'kind-of-issue' section and rephrased a bit
Rephrased and moved Example URL section upwards
Moved ISSUE_TEMPLATE inside .github folder.
Update makefile to match new folderstructure
encode_dict functionality has been improved and moved directly into compat_urllib_parse_urlencode
All occurrences of compat_urllib_parse.urlencode throughout the codebase have been replaced by compat_urllib_parse_urlencode
Closes#8974
It's the portable version of BSD make: http://crufty.net/help/sjg/bmake.html
The syntax for conditionals is different in GNU make and BSD make, so we use the shell
YouTube may often return 404 HTTP error for a fragment causing the
whole download to fail. However if the same fragment is immediately
retried with the same request data this usually succeeds (1-2 attemps
is usually enough) thus allowing to download the whole file successfully.
So, we will retry all fragments that fail with 404 HTTP error for now.
In parse_count multiple units start with the same letter, so it would match different units depending on the order they were sorted when iterating over them.
- extract error messages
- force the platform smil url(previously the manifest param
in the query is not respected which make theplatform return non working
mp4 files for some videos)
- use FFmpeg downloader to download m3u8 formats extracted
from BrightcoveNew(some of the m3u8 media playlists use AES-128)
- update comment and update_url_query to handle url query
This function is orignally used for determining file extensions of DASH
formats. Now in DASH, ext is determined by mime_type. See #8766 for more
information.
At the beginning of every segment there was a drop to Unknown speed due to timeslice being too small to calculate speed.
Now last speed from the previous fragment is used.
This is much more robust than just using regexps, and handles all
the common scenarios, such as empty/no values, repeated attributes,
entity decoding, mixed case names, and the different possible value
quoting schemes.
The certificates are misconfigured, you get the following error mesage:
ssl.CertificateError: hostname u'zdf-hdios-none-i.zdf.de' doesn't match either of 'a248.e.akamai.net', '*.akamaihd.net', '*.akamaihd-staging.net', '*.akamaized.net', '*.akamaized-staging.net'
1. Renamed to encode_base_n()
2. Allow tables longer than 62 characters
3. Raise ValueError instead of AssertionError for invalid input data
4. Return the first character in the table instead of '0' for number 0
5. Add tests
Javascript codes found on Vidzi are slightly different from those found
in VideoMega and iQiyi. Nevertheless, the difference has no effects on
the final result.
Some old videos that aren't on Vimeo are being uploaded to YouTube under the
'Gamekings Vault' channel. They use YouTube now for some videos as video
hosting instead of Vimeo or their own hosting. The first test failed to
succeed under the existing code, but works now by using the YouTube
extractor.
The Regex is changed to find the new gogoVideo JavaScript line with the
YouTube embed. Checking if there is a YouTube embed is done by a String
find, which is probably not the best method of checking this.
When using the mpegts container hls vidoes can be played while being downloaded (useful if you are recording a live stream).
VLC and mpv play them file, but QuickTime doesn't.
Supports only the nuevo player for now (most common).
[trollvids] convert duration to an int
[trollvids] added a test
[trollvids] made flake8 shut up
Generalized the Nuevo extractor
Affects: anitube, trollvids, trutube
[nuevo] Complied with the code comments.
The rsa_verify code was vulnerable to a BB'06 attack, allowing to forge
signatures for arbitrary messages if and only if the public key exponent is
3. Since the updates key is hardcoded to 65537, there is no risk for
youtube-dl, but I don't want vulnerable code in the wild.
The new function adopts a way safer approach of encoding-and-comparing to
replace the dangerous parsing code.
"current" is now "video"
"hls_stream" is now hls_stream without quotes
video_id is now id
duration for current video is not present(for other videos it is)
modified regex to find hls_stream variable to work reguardless of whether it is quoted or not.
[ora] Improve (Closes#8273)
If someone is running youtube-dl on a server to deliver files, the user could input 'file:///some/important/file' and youtube-dl would save that file as a video giving access to sensitive information to the user.
'file:' urls can be filtered, but the user can use an URL to a crafted m3u8 manifest like:
#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:0
#EXTINF:10.0
file:///etc/passwd
#EXT-X-ENDLIST
With this patch 'file:' URLs raise URLError like for unknown protocols.
In RFC6381, there's no rule stating that the first part of codecs should
be video and the second part should be audio, while it seems the case
for data reported by YouTube.
In some dailymotion videos (like http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3k0dtv from #8156) the segments URLs don't have the 'Content-Length' header and HttpFD sets the 'totat_bytes' field to None, so we also use '0' in that case (since we do different math operations with it).
Add an IE to support bigflix.com. It uses some sort of silverlight
plugin whose video url is being populated using base64 encoded
flashvars. So it is quite straightforward to extract.
"This check should take place earlier and should be more general if not video_url:. Same should be done for video_play_path. Also these fields better extracted with xpath_text."
Suggestions by @dstftw
If you run 'while read aurl ; do youtube-dl "${aurl}"; done < path_to_batch_file' (batch_file contains one url per line that uses the hls downloader) each call to youtube-dl consumed some characters and 'read' would assing to 'aurl' a non valid url
(This is the same problem that was fixed for the ffmpeg postprocessors in cffcbc02de)
Should make downloading with filters more precise and easier, ie. bestvideo[vcodec=h264]. By default a lot of codecs are specified as avc1.xxxxxx and unique for each format, which makes them unusable for bestvideo selection.
- extract data from json instead of xml
- fix http format urls
- extract more metadata
- update tests
- make m3u8 and f4m format extraction non fatal
- use m3u8_native implementation
With cn_verification_proxy, our http_response() is called twice, one from
PerRequestProxyHandler.proxy_open() and another from normal
YoutubeDL.urlopen(). As a result, for proxies honoring Accept-Encoding, the
following bug occurs:
$ youtube-dl -vs --cn-verification-proxy https://secure.uku.im:993 "test:letv"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-vs', '--cn-verification-proxy', 'https://secure.uku.im:993', 'test:letv']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.12.23
[debug] Git HEAD: 97f18fa
[debug] Python version 3.5.1 - Linux-4.3.3-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch-Arch-Linux
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.4, ffprobe 2.8.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[TestURL] Test URL: http://www.letv.com/ptv/vplay/22005890.html
[Letv] 22005890: Downloading webpage
[Letv] 22005890: Downloading playJson data
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: Not a gzipped file (b'{"') (caused by OSError('Not a gzipped file (b\'{"\')',)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
File "/home/yen/Executables/Multimedia/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 330, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/home/yen/Executables/Multimedia/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1886, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 471, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/home/yen/Executables/Multimedia/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 773, in http_response
raise original_ioerror
File "/home/yen/Executables/Multimedia/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 761, in http_response
uncompressed = io.BytesIO(gz.read())
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/gzip.py", line 274, in read
return self._buffer.read(size)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/gzip.py", line 461, in read
if not self._read_gzip_header():
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/gzip.py", line 409, in _read_gzip_header
raise OSError('Not a gzipped file (%r)' % magic)
- split long lines
- use m3u8 entry protocol for live streams
- extend _VALID_URL regex for livestream original
- extract livestream original live streams
remove outer parentheses in if
Conflicts:
youtube_dl/extractor/imgur.py
checked code with flake8
not returning list in case of single images.
using the fact that id with length 5 are albums and more are single videos.
Also for single videos ie ImgurIE both urls - http://imgur.com/gallery/oWeAMW2 and http://imgur.com/oWeAMW2 are equally fine. Change regex to allow thuis.
For albums urls - http://imgur.com/gallery/Q95ko and http://imgur.com/Q95ko are ok. Change regex to allow this also.
update description in ImgurIE Tests.
Also move single video test 'https://imgur.com/gallery/YcAQlkx' from ImgurAlbumIE to ImgurIE.
- extend _VALID_URL to match both br.de and br-klassik.de
- extract all formats(hls,hds and rtmp)
- use xpath_element and xpath_text for xml info extraction
When no `downloader` is passed to `FFmpegPostProcessor`
an exception was raised trying to get the prefer ffmpeg param.
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'params'
This fixes and defaults to `False`.
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- [ ] Other
---
### The following sections concretize particular purposed issues, you can erase any section (the contents between triple ---) not applicable to your *issue*
---
### If the purpose of this *issue* is a *bug report*, *site support request* or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:
Add `-v` flag to **your command line** you run youtube-dl with, copy the **whole** output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with **your** log inserted between triple ```):
### If the purpose of this *issue* is a *site support request* please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by **yours**):
- Single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
Note that **youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to [copyright infringement](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#can-you-add-support-for-this-anime-video-site-or-site-which-shows-current-movies-for-free)**. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.
---
### Description of your *issue*, suggested solution and other information
Explanation of your *issue* in arbitrary form goes here. Please make sure the [description is worded well enough to be understood](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#is-the-description-of-the-issue-itself-sufficient). Provide as much context and examples as possible.
If work on your *issue* requires account credentials please provide them or explain how one can obtain them.
- You will be asked some questions and requested to provide some information, please read them **carefully** and answer honestly
- Put an `x` into all the boxes [ ] relevant to your *issue* (like that [x])
- Use *Preview* tab to see how your issue will actually look like
---
### Make sure you are using the *latest* version: run `youtube-dl --version` and ensure your version is *%(version)s*. If it's not read [this FAQ entry](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl) and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.
- [ ] I've **verified** and **I assure** that I'm running youtube-dl **%(version)s**
### Before submitting an *issue* make sure you have:
- [ ] At least skimmed through [README](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md) and **most notably** [FAQ](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#faq) and [BUGS](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#bugs) sections
- [ ] [Searched](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/search?type=Issues) the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones
### What is the purpose of your *issue*?
- [ ] Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
- [ ] Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)
- [ ] Feature request (request for a new functionality)
- [ ] Question
- [ ] Other
---
### The following sections concretize particular purposed issues, you can erase any section (the contents between triple ---) not applicable to your *issue*
---
### If the purpose of this *issue* is a *bug report*, *site support request* or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:
Add `-v` flag to **your command line** you run youtube-dl with, copy the **whole** output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with **your** log inserted between triple ```):
### If the purpose of this *issue* is a *site support request* please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by **yours**):
- Single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
Note that **youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to [copyright infringement](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#can-you-add-support-for-this-anime-video-site-or-site-which-shows-current-movies-for-free)**. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.
---
### Description of your *issue*, suggested solution and other information
Explanation of your *issue* in arbitrary form goes here. Please make sure the [description is worded well enough to be understood](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#is-the-description-of-the-issue-itself-sufficient). Provide as much context and examples as possible.
If work on your *issue* requires account credentials please provide them or explain how one can obtain them.
- You will be asked some questions, please read them **carefully** and answer honestly
- Put an `x` into all the boxes [ ] relevant to your *pull request* (like that [x])
- Use *Preview* tab to see how your *pull request* will actually look like
---
### Before submitting a *pull request* make sure you have:
- [ ] At least skimmed through [adding new extractor tutorial](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#adding-support-for-a-new-site) and [youtube-dl coding conventions](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#youtube-dl-coding-conventions) sections
- [ ] [Searched](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/search?q=is%3Apr&type=Issues) the bugtracker for similar pull requests
### In order to be accepted and merged into youtube-dl each piece of code must be in public domain or released under [Unlicense](http://unlicense.org/). Check one of the following options:
- [ ] I am the original author of this code and I am willing to release it under [Unlicense](http://unlicense.org/)
- [ ] I am not the original author of this code but it is in public domain or released under [Unlicense](http://unlicense.org/) (provide reliable evidence)
### What is the purpose of your *pull request*?
- [ ] Bug fix
- [ ] Improvement
- [ ] New extractor
- [ ] New feature
---
### Description of your *pull request* and other information
Explanation of your *pull request* in arbitrary form goes here. Please make sure the description explains the purpose and effect of your *pull request* and is worded well enough to be understood. Provide as much context and examples as possible.
**Please include the full output of youtube-dl when run with `-v`**.
**Please include the full output of youtube-dl when run with `-v`**, i.e. **add**`-v` flag to **your command line**, copy the **whole** output and post it in the issue body wrapped in \`\`\` for better formatting. It should look similar to this:
**Do not post screenshots of verbose logs; only plain text is acceptable.**
The output (including the first lines) contains important debugging information. Issues without the full output are often not reproducible and therefore do not get solved in short order, if ever.
@@ -14,13 +28,13 @@ So please elaborate on what feature you are requesting, or what bug you want to
- How it could be fixed
- How your proposed solution would look like
If your report is shorter than two lines, it is almost certainly missing some of these, which makes it hard for us to respond to it. We're often too polite to close the issue outright, but the missing info makes misinterpretation likely. As a commiter myself, I often get frustrated by these issues, since the only possible way for me to move forward on them is to ask for clarification over and over.
If your report is shorter than two lines, it is almost certainly missing some of these, which makes it hard for us to respond to it. We're often too polite to close the issue outright, but the missing info makes misinterpretation likely. As a committer myself, I often get frustrated by these issues, since the only possible way for me to move forward on them is to ask for clarification over and over.
For bug reports, this means that your report should contain the *complete* output of youtube-dl when called with the `-v` flag. The error message you get for (most) bugs even says so, but you would not believe how many of our bug reports do not contain this information.
If your server has multiple IPs or you suspect censorship, adding `--call-home` may be a good idea to get more diagnostics. If the error is `ERROR: Unable to extract ...` and you cannot reproduce it from multiple countries, add `--dump-pages` (warning: this will yield a rather large output, redirect it to the file `log.txt` by adding `>log.txt 2>&1` to your command-line) or upload the `.dump` files you get when you add `--write-pages` [somewhere](https://gist.github.com/).
**Site support requests must contain an example URL**. An example URL is a URL you might want to download, like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc. There should be an obvious video present. Except under very special circumstances, the main page of a video service (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/) is *not* an example URL.
**Site support requests must contain an example URL**. An example URL is a URL you might want to download, like `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc`. There should be an obvious video present. Except under very special circumstances, the main page of a video service (e.g. `http://www.youtube.com/`) is *not* an example URL.
### Are you using the latest version?
@@ -28,11 +42,11 @@ Before reporting any issue, type `youtube-dl -U`. This should report that you're
### Is the issue already documented?
Make sure that someone has not already opened the issue you're trying to open. Search at the top of the window or at https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/search?type=Issues. If there is an issue, feel free to write something along the lines of "This affects me as well, with version 2015.01.01. Here is some more information on the issue: ...". While some issues may be old, a new post into them often spurs rapid activity.
Make sure that someone has not already opened the issue you're trying to open. Search at the top of the window or browse the [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/search?type=Issues) of this repository. If there is an issue, feel free to write something along the lines of "This affects me as well, with version 2015.01.01. Here is some more information on the issue: ...". While some issues may be old, a new post into them often spurs rapid activity.
### Why are existing options not enough?
Before requesting a new feature, please have a quick peek at [the list of supported options](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#synopsis). Many feature requests are for features that actually exist already! Please, absolutely do show off your work in the issue report and detail how the existing similar options do *not* solve your problem.
Before requesting a new feature, please have a quick peek at [the list of supported options](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#options). Many feature requests are for features that actually exist already! Please, absolutely do show off your work in the issue report and detail how the existing similar options do *not* solve your problem.
### Is there enough context in your bug report?
@@ -44,7 +58,7 @@ We are then presented with a very complicated request when the original problem
Some of our users seem to think there is a limit of issues they can or should open. There is no limit of issues they can or should open. While it may seem appealing to be able to dump all your issues into one ticket, that means that someone who solves one of your issues cannot mark the issue as closed. Typically, reporting a bunch of issues leads to the ticket lingering since nobody wants to attack that behemoth, until someone mercifully splits the issue into multiple ones.
In particular, every site support request issue should only pertain to services at one site (generally under a common domain, but always using the same backend technology). Do not request support for vimeo user videos, Whitehouse podcasts, and Google Plus pages in the same issue. Also, make sure that you don't post bug reports alongside feature requests. As a rule of thumb, a feature request does not include outputs of youtube-dl that are not immediately related to the feature at hand. Do not post reports of a network error alongside the request for a new video service.
In particular, every site support request issue should only pertain to services at one site (generally under a common domain, but always using the same backend technology). Do not request support for vimeo user videos, Whitehouse podcasts, and Google Plus pages in the same issue. Also, make sure that you don't post bug reports alongside feature requests. As a rule of thumb, a feature request does not include outputs of youtube-dl that are not immediately related to the feature at hand. Do not post reports of a network error alongside the request for a new video service.
### Is anyone going to need the feature?
@@ -52,7 +66,7 @@ Only post features that you (or an incapacitated friend you can personally talk
### Is your question about youtube-dl?
It may sound strange, but some bug reports we receive are completely unrelated to youtube-dl and relate to a different or even the reporter's own application. Please make sure that you are actually using youtube-dl. If you are using a UI for youtube-dl, report the bug to the maintainer of the actual application providing the UI. On the other hand, if your UI for youtube-dl fails in some way you believe is related to youtube-dl, by all means, go ahead and report the bug.
It may sound strange, but some bug reports we receive are completely unrelated to youtube-dl and relate to a different, or even the reporter's own, application. Please make sure that you are actually using youtube-dl. If you are using a UI for youtube-dl, report the bug to the maintainer of the actual application providing the UI. On the other hand, if your UI for youtube-dl fails in some way you believe is related to youtube-dl, by all means, go ahead and report the bug.
# DEVELOPER INSTRUCTIONS
@@ -71,19 +85,29 @@ To run the test, simply invoke your favorite test runner, or execute a test file
If you want to create a build of youtube-dl yourself, you'll need
* python
* make
* make (only GNU make is supported)
* pandoc
* zip
* nosetests
### Adding support for a new site
If you want to add support for a new site, you can follow this quick list (assuming your service is called `yourextractor`):
If you want to add support for a new site, first of all **make sure** this site is **not dedicated to [copyright infringement](README.md#can-you-add-support-for-this-anime-video-site-or-site-which-shows-current-movies-for-free)**. youtube-dl does **not support** such sites thus pull requests adding support for them **will be rejected**.
After you have ensured this site is distributing its content legally, you can follow this quick list (assuming your service is called `yourextractor`):
1. [Fork this repository](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/fork)
2. Check out the source code with`git clone git@github.com:YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/youtube-dl.git`
3. Start a new git branch with `cd youtube-dl; git checkout -b yourextractor`
4. Start with this simple template and save it to `youtube_dl/extractor/yourextractor.py`:
```python
# coding: utf-8
from __future__ import unicode_literals
@@ -100,7 +124,7 @@ If you want to add support for a new site, you can follow this quick list (assum
'id': '42',
'ext': 'mp4',
'title': 'Video title goes here',
'thumbnail': 're:^https?://.*\.jpg$',
'thumbnail': r're:^https?://.*\.jpg$',
# TODO more properties, either as:
# * A value
# * MD5 checksum; start the string with md5:
@@ -124,13 +148,13 @@ If you want to add support for a new site, you can follow this quick list (assum
# TODO more properties (see youtube_dl/extractor/common.py)
}
```
5. Add an import in [`youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py`](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py).
5. Add an import in [`youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py`](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py).
6. Run `python test/test_download.py TestDownload.test_YourExtractor`. This *should fail* at first, but you can continually re-run it until you're done. If you decide to add more than one test, then rename ``_TEST`` to ``_TESTS`` and make it into a list of dictionaries. The tests will then be named `TestDownload.test_YourExtractor`, `TestDownload.test_YourExtractor_1`, `TestDownload.test_YourExtractor_2`, etc.
7. Have a look at [`youtube_dl/extractor/common.py`](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py) for possible helper methods and a [detailed description of what your extractor should and may return](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py#L62-L200). Add tests and code for as many as you want.
8. If you can, check the code with [flake8](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/flake8).
7. Have a look at [`youtube_dl/extractor/common.py`](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py) for possible helper methods and a [detailed description of what your extractor should and may return](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py#L74-L252). Add tests and code for as many as you want.
8. Make sure your code follows [youtube-dl coding conventions](#youtube-dl-coding-conventions) and check the code with [flake8](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/flake8). Also make sure your code works under all [Python](http://www.python.org/) versions claimed supported by youtube-dl, namely 2.6, 2.7, and 3.2+.
9. When the tests pass, [add](http://git-scm.com/docs/git-add) the new files and [commit](http://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit) them and [push](http://git-scm.com/docs/git-push) the result, like this:
$ git add youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
$ git add youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
$ git add youtube_dl/extractor/yourextractor.py
$ git commit -m '[yourextractor] Add new extractor'
$ git push origin yourextractor
@@ -139,3 +163,136 @@ If you want to add support for a new site, you can follow this quick list (assum
In any case, thank you very much for your contributions!
## youtube-dl coding conventions
This section introduces a guide lines for writing idiomatic, robust and future-proof extractor code.
Extractors are very fragile by nature since they depend on the layout of the source data provided by 3rd party media hosters out of your control and this layout tends to change. As an extractor implementer your task is not only to write code that will extract media links and metadata correctly but also to minimize dependency on the source's layout and even to make the code foresee potential future changes and be ready for that. This is important because it will allow the extractor not to break on minor layout changes thus keeping old youtube-dl versions working. Even though this breakage issue is easily fixed by emitting a new version of youtube-dl with a fix incorporated, all the previous versions become broken in all repositories and distros' packages that may not be so prompt in fetching the update from us. Needless to say, some non rolling release distros may never receive an update at all.
### Mandatory and optional metafields
For extraction to work youtube-dl relies on metadata your extractor extracts and provides to youtube-dl expressed by an [information dictionary](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py#L75-L257) or simply *info dict*. Only the following meta fields in the *info dict* are considered mandatory for a successful extraction process by youtube-dl:
- `id` (media identifier)
- `title` (media title)
- `url` (media download URL) or `formats`
In fact only the last option is technically mandatory (i.e. if you can't figure out the download location of the media the extraction does not make any sense). But by convention youtube-dl also treats `id` and `title` as mandatory. Thus the aforementioned metafields are the critical data that the extraction does not make any sense without and if any of them fail to be extracted then the extractor is considered completely broken.
[Any field](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py#L149-L257) apart from the aforementioned ones are considered **optional**. That means that extraction should be **tolerant** to situations when sources for these fields can potentially be unavailable (even if they are always available at the moment) and **future-proof** in order not to break the extraction of general purpose mandatory fields.
#### Example
Say you have some source dictionary `meta` that you've fetched as JSON with HTTP request and it has a key `summary`:
```python
meta = self._download_json(url, video_id)
```
Assume at this point `meta`'s layout is:
```python
{
...
"summary": "some fancy summary text",
...
}
```
Assume you want to extract `summary` and put it into the resulting info dict as `description`. Since `description` is an optional meta field you should be ready that this key may be missing from the `meta` dict, so that you should extract it like:
```python
description = meta.get('summary') # correct
```
and not like:
```python
description = meta['summary'] # incorrect
```
The latter will break extraction process with `KeyError` if `summary` disappears from `meta` at some later time but with the former approach extraction will just go ahead with `description` set to `None` which is perfectly fine (remember `None` is equivalent to the absence of data).
Similarly, you should pass `fatal=False` when extracting optional data from a webpage with `_search_regex`, `_html_search_regex` or similar methods, for instance:
```python
description = self._search_regex(
r'<span[^>]+id="title"[^>]*>([^<]+)<',
webpage, 'description', fatal=False)
```
With `fatal` set to `False` if `_search_regex` fails to extract `description` it will emit a warning and continue extraction.
You can also pass `default=<somefallbackvalue>`, for example:
```python
description = self._search_regex(
r'<span[^>]+id="title"[^>]*>([^<]+)<',
webpage, 'description', default=None)
```
On failure this code will silently continue the extraction with `description` set to `None`. That is useful for metafields that may or may not be present.
### Provide fallbacks
When extracting metadata try to do so from multiple sources. For example if `title` is present in several places, try extracting from at least some of them. This makes it more future-proof in case some of the sources become unavailable.
#### Example
Say `meta` from the previous example has a `title` and you are about to extract it. Since `title` is a mandatory meta field you should end up with something like:
```python
title = meta['title']
```
If `title` disappears from `meta` in future due to some changes on the hoster's side the extraction would fail since `title` is mandatory. That's expected.
Assume that you have some another source you can extract `title` from, for example `og:title` HTML meta of a `webpage`. In this case you can provide a fallback scenario:
```python
title = meta.get('title') or self._og_search_title(webpage)
```
This code will try to extract from `meta` first and if it fails it will try extracting `og:title` from a `webpage`.
### Make regular expressions flexible
When using regular expressions try to write them fuzzy and flexible.
#### Example
Say you need to extract `title` from the following HTML code:
Windows users can [download a .exe file](https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl.exe) and place it in their home directory or any other location on their [PATH](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_%28variable%29).
OS X users can install **youtube-dl** with [Homebrew](http://brew.sh/).
brew install youtube-dl
Windows users can [download an .exe file](https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl.exe) and place it in any location on their [PATH](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_%28variable%29) except for `%SYSTEMROOT%\System32` (e.g. **do not** put in `C:\Windows\System32`).
You can also use pip:
sudo pip install youtube-dl
sudo -H pip install --upgrade youtube-dl
This command will update youtube-dl if you have already installed it. See the [pypi page](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/youtube_dl) for more information.
Alternatively, refer to the [developer instructions](#developer-instructions) for how to check out and work with the git repository. For further options, including PGP signatures, see https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html .
OS X users can install youtube-dl with [Homebrew](http://brew.sh/):
brew install youtube-dl
Or with [MacPorts](https://www.macports.org/):
sudo port install youtube-dl
Alternatively, refer to the [developer instructions](#developer-instructions) for how to check out and work with the git repository. For further options, including PGP signatures, see the [youtube-dl Download Page](https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html).
# DESCRIPTION
**youtube-dl** is a small command-line program to download videos from
YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter, version
2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+, and it is not platform specific. It should work on
your Unix box, on Windows or on Mac OS X. It is released to the public domain,
which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
**youtube-dl** is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter, version 2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+, and it is not platform specific. It should work on your Unix box, on Windows or on Mac OS X. It is released to the public domain, which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
@@ -73,19 +75,28 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
repairs broken URLs, but emits an error if
this is not possible instead of searching.
--ignore-config Do not read configuration files. When given
in the global configuration file /etc
/youtube-dl.conf: Do not read the user
in the global configuration file
/etc/youtube-dl.conf: Do not read the user
configuration in ~/.config/youtube-
dl/config (%APPDATA%/youtube-dl/config.txt
on Windows)
--config-location PATH Location of the configuration file; either
the path to the config or its containing
directory.
--flat-playlist Do not extract the videos of a playlist,
only list them.
--mark-watched Mark videos watched (YouTube only)
--no-mark-watched Do not mark videos watched (YouTube only)
--no-color Do not emit color codes in output
--abort-on-unavailable-fragment Abort downloading when some fragment is not
available
## Network Options:
--proxy URL Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS proxy. Pass in
an empty string (--proxy "") for direct
connection
--proxy URL Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy.
To enable experimental SOCKS proxy, specify
a proper scheme. For example
socks5://127.0.0.1:1080/. Pass in an empty
string (--proxy "") for direct connection
--socket-timeout SECONDS Time to wait before giving up, in seconds
--source-address IP Client-side IP address to bind to
(experimental)
@@ -93,9 +104,9 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
(experimental)
-6, --force-ipv6 Make all connections via IPv6
(experimental)
--cn-verification-proxy URL Use this proxy to verify the IP address for
some Chinese sites. The default proxy
specified by --proxy (or none, if the
--geo-verification-proxy URL Use this proxy to verify the IP address for
some geo-restricted sites. The default
proxy specified by --proxy (or none, if the
options is not present) is used for the
actual downloading. (experimental)
@@ -158,10 +169,15 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
(experimental)
## Download Options:
-r, --rate-limit LIMIT Maximum download rate in bytes per second
-r, --limit-rate RATE Maximum download rate in bytes per second
(e.g. 50K or 4.2M)
-R, --retries RETRIES Number of retries (default is 10), or
"infinite".
--fragment-retries RETRIES Number of retries for a fragment (default
is 10), or "infinite" (DASH and hlsnative
only)
--skip-unavailable-fragments Skip unavailable fragments (DASH and
hlsnative only)
--buffer-size SIZE Size of download buffer (e.g. 1024 or 16K)
(default is 1024)
--no-resize-buffer Do not automatically adjust the buffer
@@ -170,12 +186,18 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
of SIZE.
--playlist-reverse Download playlist videos in reverse order
--xattr-set-filesize Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with
expected filesize (experimental)
expected filesize (experimental)
--hls-prefer-native Use the native HLS downloader instead of
ffmpeg (experimental)
ffmpeg
--hls-prefer-ffmpeg Use ffmpeg instead of the native HLS
downloader
--hls-use-mpegts Use the mpegts container for HLS videos,
allowing to play the video while
downloading (some players may not be able
to play it)
--external-downloader COMMAND Use the specified external downloader.
Currently supports
aria2c,axel,curl,httpie,wget
aria2c,avconv,axel,curl,ffmpeg,httpie,wget
--external-downloader-args ARGS Give these arguments to the external
downloader
@@ -183,32 +205,8 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
-a, --batch-file FILE File containing URLs to download ('-' for
stdin)
--id Use only video ID in file name
-o, --output TEMPLATE Output filename template. Use %(title)s to
get the title, %(uploader)s for the
uploader name, %(uploader_id)s for the
uploader nickname if different,
%(autonumber)s to get an automatically
incremented number, %(ext)s for the
filename extension, %(format)s for the
format description (like "22 - 1280x720" or
"HD"), %(format_id)s for the unique id of
the format (like YouTube's itags: "137"),
%(upload_date)s for the upload date
(YYYYMMDD), %(extractor)s for the provider
(youtube, metacafe, etc), %(id)s for the
video id, %(playlist_title)s,
%(playlist_id)s, or %(playlist)s (=title if
present, ID otherwise) for the playlist the
video is in, %(playlist_index)s for the
position in the playlist. %(height)s and
%(width)s for the width and height of the
video format. %(resolution)s for a textual
description of the resolution of the video
format. %% for a literal percent. Use - to
output to stdout. Can also be used to
download to a different directory, for
example with -o '/my/downloads/%(uploader)s
/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s' .
-o, --output TEMPLATE Output filename template, see the "OUTPUT
TEMPLATE" for all the info
--autonumber-size NUMBER Specify the number of digits in
%(autonumber)s when it is present in output
filename template or --auto-number option
@@ -237,18 +235,19 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
--write-info-json Write video metadata to a .info.json file
--write-annotations Write video annotations to a
.annotations.xml file
--load-info FILE JSON file containing the video information
--load-info-json FILE JSON file containing the video information
(created with the "--write-info-json"
option)
--cookies FILE File to read cookies from and dump cookie
jar in
--cache-dir DIR Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl
can store some downloaded information
permanently. By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME
/youtube-dl or ~/.cache/youtube-dl . At the
moment, only YouTube player files (for
videos with obfuscated signatures) are
cached, but that may change.
permanently. By default
$XDG_CACHE_HOME/youtube-dl or
~/.cache/youtube-dl . At the moment, only
YouTube player files (for videos with
obfuscated signatures) are cached, but that
may change.
--no-cache-dir Disable filesystem caching
--rm-cache-dir Delete all filesystem cache files
@@ -311,7 +310,15 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
bidirectional text support. Requires bidiv
or fribidi executable in PATH
--sleep-interval SECONDS Number of seconds to sleep before each
download.
download when used alone or a lower bound
of a range for randomized sleep before each
download (minimum possible number of
seconds to sleep) when used along with
--max-sleep-interval.
--max-sleep-interval SECONDS Upper bound of a range for randomized sleep
before each download (maximum possible
number of seconds to sleep). Must only be
used along with --min-sleep-interval.
## Video Format Options:
-f, --format FORMAT Video format code, see the "FORMAT
@@ -339,24 +346,35 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
preference, for example: "srt" or
"ass/srt/best"
--sub-lang LANGS Languages of the subtitles to download
(optional) separated by commas, use IETF
language tags like 'en,pt'
(optional) separated by commas, use --list-
subs for available language tags
## Authentication Options:
-u, --username USERNAME Login with this account ID
-p, --password PASSWORD Account password. If this option is left
@@ -370,8 +388,8 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
--no-post-overwrites Do not overwrite post-processed files; the
post-processed files are overwritten by
default
--embed-subs Embed subtitles in the video (only for mkv
and mp4 videos)
--embed-subs Embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4,
webm and mkv videos)
--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 /
@@ -400,28 +418,44 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
downloading, similar to find's -exec
syntax. Example: --exec 'adb push {}
/sdcard/Music/ && rm {}'
--convert-subtitles FORMAT Convert the subtitles to other format
--convert-subs FORMAT Convert the subtitles to other format
(currently supported: srt|ass|vtt)
# CONFIGURATION
You can configure youtube-dl by placing any supported command line option to a configuration file. On Linux, the system wide configuration file is located at `/etc/youtube-dl.conf` and the user wide configuration file at `~/.config/youtube-dl/config`. On Windows, the user wide configuration file locations are `%APPDATA%\youtube-dl\config.txt` or `C:\Users\<user name>\youtube-dl.conf`. For example, with the following configuration file youtube-dl will always extract the audio, not copy the mtime and use a proxy:
You can configure youtube-dl by placing any supported command line option to a configuration file. On Linux and OS X, the system wide configuration file is located at `/etc/youtube-dl.conf` and the user wide configuration file at `~/.config/youtube-dl/config`. On Windows, the user wide configuration file locations are `%APPDATA%\youtube-dl\config.txt` or `C:\Users\<user name>\youtube-dl.conf`. Note that by default configuration file may not exist so you may need to create it yourself.
For example, with the following configuration file youtube-dl will always extract the audio, not copy the mtime, use a proxy and save all videos under `Movies` directory in your home directory:
```
--extract-audio
# Lines starting with # are comments
# Always extract audio
-x
# Do not copy the mtime
--no-mtime
# Use this proxy
--proxy 127.0.0.1:3128
# Save all videos under Movies directory in your home directory
-o ~/Movies/%(title)s.%(ext)s
```
Note that options in configuration file are just the same options aka switches used in regular command line calls thus there **must be no whitespace** after `-` or `--`, e.g. `-o` or `--proxy` but not `- o` or `-- proxy`.
You can use `--ignore-config` if you want to disable the configuration file for a particular youtube-dl run.
### Authentication with `.netrc` file ###
You can also use `--config-location` if you want to use custom configuration file for a particular youtube-dl run.
You may also want to configure automatic credentials storage for extractors that support authentication (by providing login and password with `--username` and `--password`) in order not to pass credentials as command line arguments on every youtube-dl execution and prevent tracking plain text passwords in the shell command history. You can achieve this using a [`.netrc` file](http://stackoverflow.com/tags/.netrc/info) on per extractor basis. For that you will need to create a`.netrc` file in your `$HOME` and restrict permissions to read/write by you only:
### Authentication with `.netrc` file
You may also want to configure automatic credentials storage for extractors that support authentication (by providing login and password with `--username` and `--password`) in order not to pass credentials as command line arguments on every youtube-dl execution and prevent tracking plain text passwords in the shell command history. You can achieve this using a [`.netrc` file](http://stackoverflow.com/tags/.netrc/info) on a per extractor basis. For that you will need to create a `.netrc` file in your `$HOME` and restrict permissions to read/write by only you:
```
touch $HOME/.netrc
chmod a-rwx,u+rw $HOME/.netrc
```
After that you can add credentials for extractor in the following format, where *extractor* is the name of extractor in lowercase:
After that you can add credentials for an extractor in the following format, where *extractor* is the name of the extractor in lowercase:
@@ -436,43 +470,213 @@ On Windows you may also need to setup the `%HOME%` environment variable manually
# 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 is a percent symbol followed by a name in parentheses, followed by a lowercase S. Allowed names are:
The `-o` option allows users to indicate a template for the output file names.
-`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.
-`upload_date`: The sequence will be replaced by the upload date in YYYYMMDD format.
-`title`: The sequence will be replaced by the video title.
-`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.
-`autonumber`: The sequence will be replaced by a five-digit number that will be increased with each download, starting at zero.
-`playlist`: The sequence will be replaced by the name or the id of the playlist that contains the video.
-`playlist_index`: The sequence will be replaced by the index of the video in the playlist padded with leading zeros according to the total length of the playlist.
-`format_id`: The sequence will be replaced by the format code specified by `--format`.
-`duration`: The sequence will be replaced by the length of the video in seconds.
**tl;dr:** [navigate me to examples](#output-template-examples).
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 is a percent symbol followed by a name in parentheses, followed by a lowercase S. Allowed names are:
-`id`: Video identifier
-`title`: Video title
-`url`: Video URL
-`ext`: Video filename extension
-`alt_title`: A secondary title of the video
-`display_id`: An alternative identifier for the video
-`uploader`: Full name of the video uploader
-`license`: License name the video is licensed under
-`creator`: The creator of the video
-`release_date`: The date (YYYYMMDD) when the video was released
-`timestamp`: UNIX timestamp of the moment the video became available
-`upload_date`: Video upload date (YYYYMMDD)
-`uploader_id`: Nickname or id of the video uploader
-`location`: Physical location where the video was filmed
-`duration`: Length of the video in seconds
-`view_count`: How many users have watched the video on the platform
-`like_count`: Number of positive ratings of the video
-`dislike_count`: Number of negative ratings of the video
-`repost_count`: Number of reposts of the video
-`average_rating`: Average rating give by users, the scale used depends on the webpage
-`comment_count`: Number of comments on the video
-`age_limit`: Age restriction for the video (years)
-`format`: A human-readable description of the format
-`format_id`: Format code specified by `--format`
-`format_note`: Additional info about the format
-`width`: Width of the video
-`height`: Height of the video
-`resolution`: Textual description of width and height
-`tbr`: Average bitrate of audio and video in KBit/s
-`abr`: Average audio bitrate in KBit/s
-`acodec`: Name of the audio codec in use
-`asr`: Audio sampling rate in Hertz
-`vbr`: Average video bitrate in KBit/s
-`fps`: Frame rate
-`vcodec`: Name of the video codec in use
-`container`: Name of the container format
-`filesize`: The number of bytes, if known in advance
-`filesize_approx`: An estimate for the number of bytes
-`protocol`: The protocol that will be used for the actual download
-`extractor`: Name of the extractor
-`extractor_key`: Key name of the extractor
-`epoch`: Unix epoch when creating the file
-`autonumber`: Five-digit number that will be increased with each download, starting at zero
-`playlist`: Name or id of the playlist that contains the video
-`playlist_index`: Index of the video in the playlist padded with leading zeros according to the total length of the playlist
-`playlist_id`: Playlist identifier
-`playlist_title`: Playlist title
Available for the video that belongs to some logical chapter or section:
-`chapter`: Name or title of the chapter the video belongs to
-`chapter_number`: Number of the chapter the video belongs to
-`chapter_id`: Id of the chapter the video belongs to
Available for the video that is an episode of some series or programme:
-`series`: Title of the series or programme the video episode belongs to
-`season`: Title of the season the video episode belongs to
-`season_number`: Number of the season the video episode belongs to
-`season_id`: Id of the season the video episode belongs to
-`episode`: Title of the video episode
-`episode_number`: Number of the video episode within a season
-`episode_id`: Id of the video episode
Available for the media that is a track or a part of a music album:
-`track`: Title of the track
-`track_number`: Number of the track within an album or a disc
-`track_id`: Id of the track
-`artist`: Artist(s) of the track
-`genre`: Genre(s) of the track
-`album`: Title of the album the track belongs to
-`album_type`: Type of the album
-`album_artist`: List of all artists appeared on the album
-`disc_number`: Number of the disc or other physical medium the track belongs to
-`release_year`: Year (YYYY) when the album was released
Each aforementioned sequence when referenced in an output template will be replaced by the actual value corresponding to the sequence name. Note that some of the sequences are not guaranteed to be present since they depend on the metadata obtained by a particular extractor. Such sequences will be replaced with `NA`.
For example for `-o %(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s` and an mp4 video with title `youtube-dl test video` and id `BaW_jenozKcj`, this will result in a `youtube-dl test video-BaW_jenozKcj.mp4` file created in the current directory.
Output templates can also contain arbitrary hierarchical path, e.g. `-o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s'` which will result in downloading each video in a directory corresponding to this path template. Any missing directory will be automatically created for you.
To use percent literals in an output template use `%%`. To output to stdout use `-o -`.
The current default template is `%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s`.
In some cases, you don't want special characters such as 中, spaces, or &, such as when transferring the downloaded filename to a Windows system or the filename through an 8bit-unsafe channel. In these cases, add the `--restrict-filenames` flag to get a shorter title:
#### Output template and Windows batch files
If you are using an output template inside a Windows batch file then you must escape plain percent characters (`%`) by doubling, so that `-o "%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"` should become `-o "%%(title)s-%%(id)s.%%(ext)s"`. However you should not touch `%`'s that are not plain characters, e.g. environment variables for expansion should stay intact: `-o "C:\%HOMEPATH%\Desktop\%%(title)s.%%(ext)s"`.
#### Output template examples
Note on Windows you may need to use double quotes instead of single.
By default youtube-dl tries to download the best quality, but sometimes you may want to download in a different format.
The simplest case is requesting a specific format, for example `-f 22`. You can get the list of available formats using `--list-formats`, you can also use a file extension (currently it supports aac, m4a, mp3, mp4, ogg, wav, webm) or the special names `best`, `bestvideo`, `bestaudio` and `worst`.
By default youtube-dl tries to download the best available quality, i.e. if you want the best quality you **don't need** to pass any special options, youtube-dl will guess it for you by **default**.
If you want to download multiple videos and they don't have the same formats available, you can specify the order of preference using slashes, as in `-f 22/17/18`. You can also filter the video results by putting a condition in brackets, as in `-f "best[height=720]"` (or `-f "[filesize>10M]"`). This works for filesize, height, width, tbr, abr, vbr, asr, and fps and the comparisons <, <=, >, >=, =, != and for ext, acodec, vcodec, container, and protocol and the comparisons =, != . Formats for which the value is not known are excluded unless you put a question mark (?) after the operator. You can combine format filters, so `-f "[height <=? 720][tbr>500]"` selects up to 720p videos (or videos where the height is not known) with a bitrate of at least 500 KBit/s. Use commas to download multiple formats, such as `-f 136/137/mp4/bestvideo,140/m4a/bestaudio`. You can merge the video and audio of two formats into a single file using `-f <video-format>+<audio-format>` (requires ffmpeg or avconv), for example `-f bestvideo+bestaudio`. Format selectors can also be grouped using parentheses, for example if you want to download the best mp4 and webm formats with a height lower than 480 you can use `-f '(mp4,webm)[height<480]'`.
But sometimes you may want to download in a different format, for example when you are on a slow or intermittent connection. The key mechanism for achieving this is so-called *format selection* based on which you can explicitly specify desired format, select formats based on some criterion or criteria, setup precedence and much more.
Since the end of April 2015 and version 2015.04.26 youtube-dl uses `-f bestvideo+bestaudio/best` as default format selection (see #5447, #5456). If ffmpeg or avconv are installed this results in downloading `bestvideo` and `bestaudio` separately and muxing them together into a single file giving the best overall quality available. Otherwise it falls back to `best` and results in downloading the best available quality served as a single file. `best` is also needed for videos that don't come from YouTube because they don't provide the audio and video in two different files. If you want to only download some dash formats (for example if you are not interested in getting videos with a resolution higher than 1080p), you can add `-f bestvideo[height<=?1080]+bestaudio/best` to your configuration file. Note that if you use youtube-dl to stream to `stdout` (and most likely to pipe it to your media player then), i.e. you explicitly specify output template as `-o -`, youtube-dl still uses `-f best` format selection in order to start content delivery immediately to your player and not to wait until `bestvideo` and `bestaudio` are downloaded and muxed.
The general syntax for format selection is `--format FORMAT` or shorter `-f FORMAT` where `FORMAT` is a *selector expression*, i.e. an expression that describes format or formats you would like to download.
**tl;dr:** [navigate me to examples](#format-selection-examples).
The simplest case is requesting a specific format, for example with `-f 22` you can download the format with format code equal to 22. You can get the list of available format codes for particular video using `--list-formats` or `-F`. Note that these format codes are extractor specific.
You can also use a file extension (currently `3gp`, `aac`, `flv`, `m4a`, `mp3`, `mp4`, `ogg`, `wav`, `webm` are supported) to download the best quality format of a particular file extension served as a single file, e.g. `-f webm` will download the best quality format with the `webm` extension served as a single file.
You can also use special names to select particular edge case formats:
-`best`: Select the best quality format represented by a single file with video and audio.
-`worst`: Select the worst quality format represented by a single file with video and audio.
-`bestvideo`: Select the best quality video-only format (e.g. DASH video). May not be available.
-`worstvideo`: Select the worst quality video-only format. May not be available.
-`bestaudio`: Select the best quality audio only-format. May not be available.
-`worstaudio`: Select the worst quality audio only-format. May not be available.
For example, to download the worst quality video-only format you can use `-f worstvideo`.
If you want to download multiple videos and they don't have the same formats available, you can specify the order of preference using slashes. Note that slash is left-associative, i.e. formats on the left hand side are preferred, for example `-f 22/17/18` will download format 22 if it's available, otherwise it will download format 17 if it's available, otherwise it will download format 18 if it's available, otherwise it will complain that no suitable formats are available for download.
If you want to download several formats of the same video use a comma as a separator, e.g. `-f 22,17,18` will download all these three formats, of course if they are available. Or a more sophisticated example combined with the precedence feature: `-f 136/137/mp4/bestvideo,140/m4a/bestaudio`.
You can also filter the video formats by putting a condition in brackets, as in `-f "best[height=720]"` (or `-f "[filesize>10M]"`).
The following numeric meta fields can be used with comparisons `<`, `<=`, `>`, `>=`, `=` (equals), `!=` (not equals):
-`filesize`: The number of bytes, if known in advance
-`width`: Width of the video, if known
-`height`: Height of the video, if known
-`tbr`: Average bitrate of audio and video in KBit/s
-`abr`: Average audio bitrate in KBit/s
-`vbr`: Average video bitrate in KBit/s
-`asr`: Audio sampling rate in Hertz
-`fps`: Frame rate
Also filtering work for comparisons `=` (equals), `!=` (not equals), `^=` (begins with), `$=` (ends with), `*=` (contains) and following string meta fields:
-`ext`: File extension
-`acodec`: Name of the audio codec in use
-`vcodec`: Name of the video codec in use
-`container`: Name of the container format
-`protocol`: The protocol that will be used for the actual download, lower-case (`http`, `https`, `rtsp`, `rtmp`, `rtmpe`, `mms`, `f4m`, `ism`, `m3u8`, or `m3u8_native`)
-`format_id`: A short description of the format
Note that none of the aforementioned meta fields are guaranteed to be present since this solely depends on the metadata obtained by particular extractor, i.e. the metadata offered by the video hoster.
Formats for which the value is not known are excluded unless you put a question mark (`?`) after the operator. You can combine format filters, so `-f "[height <=? 720][tbr>500]"` selects up to 720p videos (or videos where the height is not known) with a bitrate of at least 500 KBit/s.
You can merge the video and audio of two formats into a single file using `-f <video-format>+<audio-format>` (requires ffmpeg or avconv installed), for example `-f bestvideo+bestaudio` will download the best video-only format, the best audio-only format and mux them together with ffmpeg/avconv.
Format selectors can also be grouped using parentheses, for example if you want to download the best mp4 and webm formats with a height lower than 480 you can use `-f '(mp4,webm)[height<480]'`.
Since the end of April 2015 and version 2015.04.26, youtube-dl uses `-f bestvideo+bestaudio/best` as the default format selection (see [#5447](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/5447), [#5456](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/5456)). If ffmpeg or avconv are installed this results in downloading `bestvideo` and `bestaudio` separately and muxing them together into a single file giving the best overall quality available. Otherwise it falls back to `best` and results in downloading the best available quality served as a single file. `best` is also needed for videos that don't come from YouTube because they don't provide the audio and video in two different files. If you want to only download some DASH formats (for example if you are not interested in getting videos with a resolution higher than 1080p), you can add `-f bestvideo[height<=?1080]+bestaudio/best` to your configuration file. Note that if you use youtube-dl to stream to `stdout` (and most likely to pipe it to your media player then), i.e. you explicitly specify output template as `-o -`, youtube-dl still uses `-f best` format selection in order to start content delivery immediately to your player and not to wait until `bestvideo` and `bestaudio` are downloaded and muxed.
If you want to preserve the old format selection behavior (prior to youtube-dl 2015.04.26), i.e. you want to download the best available quality media served as a single file, you should explicitly specify your choice with `-f best`. You may want to add it to the [configuration file](#configuration) in order not to type it every time you run youtube-dl.
#### Format selection examples
Note on Windows you may need to use double quotes instead of single.
```bash
# Download best mp4 format available or any other best if no mp4 available
Note that in the last example, an output template is recommended as bestvideo and bestaudio may have the same file name.
# VIDEO SELECTION
Videos can be filtered by their upload date using the options `--date`, `--datebefore` or `--dateafter`. They accept dates in two formats:
@@ -517,11 +721,19 @@ hash -r
Again, from then on you'll be able to update with `sudo youtube-dl -U`.
### youtube-dl is extremely slow to start on Windows
Add a file exclusion for `youtube-dl.exe` in Windows Defender settings.
### I'm getting an error `Unable to extract OpenGraph title` on YouTube playlists
YouTube changed their playlist format in March 2014 and later on, so you'll need at least youtube-dl 2014.07.25 to download all YouTube videos.
If you have installed youtube-dl with a package manager, pip, setup.py or a tarball, please use that to update. Note that Ubuntu packages do not seem to get updated anymore. Since we are not affiliated with Ubuntu, there is little we can do. Feel free to [report bugs](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/youtube-dl/+filebug) to the [Ubuntu packaging guys](mailto:ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com?subject=outdated%20version%20of%20youtube-dl) - all they have to do is update the package to a somewhat recent version. See above for a way to update.
If you have installed youtube-dl with a package manager, pip, setup.py or a tarball, please use that to update. Note that Ubuntu packages do not seem to get updated anymore. Since we are not affiliated with Ubuntu, there is little we can do. Feel free to [report bugs](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/youtube-dl/+filebug) to the [Ubuntu packaging people](mailto:ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com?subject=outdated%20version%20of%20youtube-dl) - all they have to do is update the package to a somewhat recent version. See above for a way to update.
### I'm getting an error when trying to use output template: `error: using output template conflicts with using title, video ID or auto number`
Make sure you are not using `-o` with any of these options `-t`, `--title`, `--id`, `-A` or `--auto-number` set in command line or in a configuration file. Remove the latter if any.
### Do I always have to pass `-citw`?
@@ -533,7 +745,7 @@ Most people asking this question are not aware that youtube-dl now defaults to d
### I get HTTP error 402 when trying to download a video. What's this?
Apparently YouTube requires you to pass a CAPTCHA test if you download too much. We're [considering to provide a way to let you solve the CAPTCHA](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/154), but at the moment, your best course of action is pointing a webbrowser to the youtube URL, solving the CAPTCHA, and restart youtube-dl.
Apparently YouTube requires you to pass a CAPTCHA test if you download too much. We're [considering to provide a way to let you solve the CAPTCHA](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/154), but at the moment, your best course of action is pointing a webbrowser to the youtube URL, solving the CAPTCHA, and restart youtube-dl.
### Do I need any other programs?
@@ -543,11 +755,11 @@ Videos or video formats streamed via RTMP protocol can only be downloaded when [
### I have downloaded a video but how can I play it?
Once the video is fully downloaded, use any video player, such as [vlc](http://www.videolan.org) or [mplayer](http://www.mplayerhq.hu/).
Once the video is fully downloaded, use any video player, such as [mpv](https://mpv.io/), [vlc](http://www.videolan.org/) or [mplayer](http://www.mplayerhq.hu/).
### I extracted a video URL with `-g`, but it does not play on another machine / in my webbrowser.
### I extracted a video URL with `-g`, but it does not play on another machine / in my webbrowser.
It depends a lot on the service. In many cases, requests for the video (to download/play it) must come from the same IP address and with the same cookies. Use the `--cookies` option to write the required cookies into a file, and advise your downloader to read cookies from that file. Some sites also require a common user agent to be used, use `--dump-user-agent` to see the one in use by youtube-dl.
It depends a lot on the service. In many cases, requests for the video (to download/play it) must come from the same IP address and with the same cookies and/or HTTP headers. Use the `--cookies` option to write the required cookies into a file, and advise your downloader to read cookies from that file. Some sites also require a common user agent to be used, use `--dump-user-agent` to see the one in use by youtube-dl. You can also get necessary cookies and HTTP headers from JSON output obtained with `--dump-json`.
It may be beneficial to use IPv6; in some cases, the restrictions are only applied to IPv4. Some services (sometimes only for a subset of videos) do not restrict the video URL by IP address, cookie, or user-agent, but these are the exception rather than the rule.
@@ -559,11 +771,11 @@ If you want to play the video on a machine that is not running youtube-dl, you c
YouTube has switched to a new video info format in July 2011 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. See [above](#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl) for how to update youtube-dl.
### ERROR: unable to download video ###
### ERROR: unable to download video
YouTube requires an additional signature since September 2012 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. See [above](#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl) for how to update youtube-dl.
### Video URL contains an ampersand and I'm getting some strange output `[1] 2839` or `'v' is not recognized as an internal or external command` ###
### Video URL contains an ampersand and I'm getting some strange output `[1] 2839` or `'v' is not recognized as an internal or external command`
That's actually the output from your shell. Since ampersand is one of the special shell characters it's interpreted by the shell preventing you from passing the whole URL to youtube-dl. To disable your shell from interpreting the ampersands (or any other special characters) you have to either put the whole URL in quotes or escape them with a backslash (which approach will work depends on your shell).
@@ -587,7 +799,7 @@ In February 2015, the new YouTube player contained a character sequence in a str
These two error codes indicate that the service is blocking your IP address because of overuse. Contact the service and ask them to unblock your IP address, or - if you have acquired a whitelisted IP address already - use the [`--proxy` or `--source-address` options](#network-options) to select another IP address.
### SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character ###
### SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character
The error
@@ -598,11 +810,11 @@ means you're using an outdated version of Python. Please update to Python 2.6 or
### What is this binary file? Where has the code gone?
Since June 2012 (#342) youtube-dl is packed as an executable zipfile, simply unzip it (might need renaming to `youtube-dl.zip` first on some systems) or clone the git repository, as laid out above. If you modify the code, you can run it by executing the `__main__.py` file. To recompile the executable, run `make youtube-dl`.
Since June 2012 ([#342](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/342)) youtube-dl is packed as an executable zipfile, simply unzip it (might need renaming to `youtube-dl.zip` first on some systems) or clone the git repository, as laid out above. If you modify the code, you can run it by executing the `__main__.py` file. To recompile the executable, run `make youtube-dl`.
### The exe throws a *Runtime error from Visual C++*
### The exe throws an error due to missing `MSVCR100.dll`
To run the exe you need to install first the [Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package](http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29).
To run the exe you need to install first the [Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86)](https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=5555).
### On Windows, how should I set up ffmpeg and youtube-dl? Where should I put the exe files?
@@ -616,7 +828,7 @@ From then on, after restarting your shell, you will be able to access both youtu
Use the `-o` to specify an [output template](#output-template), for example `-o "/home/user/videos/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"`. If you want this for all of your downloads, put the option into your [configuration file](#configuration).
### How do I download a video starting with a `-`?
### How do I download a video starting with a `-`?
Either prepend `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=` or separate the ID from the options with `--`:
@@ -625,9 +837,41 @@ Either prepend `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=` or separate the ID from the opt
### How do I pass cookies to youtube-dl?
Use the `--cookies` option, for example `--cookies /path/to/cookies/file.txt`. Note that the cookies file must be in Mozilla/Netscape format and the first line of the cookies file must be either `# HTTP Cookie File` or `# Netscape HTTP Cookie File`. Make sure you have correct [newline format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline) in the cookies file and convert newlines if necessary to correspond with your OS, namely `CRLF` (`\r\n`) for Windows, `LF` (`\n`) for Linux and `CR` (`\r`) for Mac OS. `HTTP Error 400: Bad Request` when using `--cookies` is a good sign of invalid newline format.
Use the `--cookies` option, for example `--cookies /path/to/cookies/file.txt`.
Passing cookies to youtube-dl is a good way to workaround login when a particular extractor does not implement it explicitly.
In order to extract cookies from browser use any conforming browser extension for exporting cookies. For example, [cookies.txt](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookiestxt/njabckikapfpffapmjgojcnbfjonfjfg) (for Chrome) or [Export Cookies](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/export-cookies/) (for Firefox).
Note that the cookies file must be in Mozilla/Netscape format and the first line of the cookies file must be either `# HTTP Cookie File` or `# Netscape HTTP Cookie File`. Make sure you have correct [newline format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline) in the cookies file and convert newlines if necessary to correspond with your OS, namely `CRLF` (`\r\n`) for Windows and `LF` (`\n`) for Unix and Unix-like systems (Linux, Mac OS, etc.). `HTTP Error 400: Bad Request` when using `--cookies` is a good sign of invalid newline format.
Passing cookies to youtube-dl is a good way to workaround login when a particular extractor does not implement it explicitly. Another use case is working around [CAPTCHA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA) some websites require you to solve in particular cases in order to get access (e.g. YouTube, CloudFlare).
### How do I stream directly to media player?
You will first need to tell youtube-dl to stream media to stdout with `-o -`, and also tell your media player to read from stdin (it must be capable of this for streaming) and then pipe former to latter. For example, streaming to [vlc](http://www.videolan.org/) can be achieved with:
### How do I download only new videos from a playlist?
Use download-archive feature. With this feature you should initially download the complete playlist with `--download-archive /path/to/download/archive/file.txt` that will record identifiers of all the videos in a special file. Each subsequent run with the same `--download-archive` will download only new videos and skip all videos that have been downloaded before. Note that only successful downloads are recorded in the file.
will download the complete `PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re` playlist and create a file `archive.txt`. Each subsequent run will only download new videos if any:
### Should I add `--hls-prefer-native` into my config?
When youtube-dl detects an HLS video, it can download it either with the built-in downloader or ffmpeg. Since many HLS streams are slightly invalid and ffmpeg/youtube-dl each handle some invalid cases better than the other, there is an option to switch the downloader if needed.
When youtube-dl knows that one particular downloader works better for a given website, that downloader will be picked. Otherwise, youtube-dl will pick the best downloader for general compatibility, which at the moment happens to be ffmpeg. This choice may change in future versions of youtube-dl, with improvements of the built-in downloader and/or ffmpeg.
In particular, the generic extractor (used when your website is not in the [list of supported sites by youtube-dl](http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html) cannot mandate one specific downloader.
If you put either `--hls-prefer-native` or `--hls-prefer-ffmpeg` into your configuration, a different subset of videos will fail to download correctly. Instead, it is much better to [file an issue](https://yt-dl.org/bug) or a pull request which details why the native or the ffmpeg HLS downloader is a better choice for your use case.
### Can you add support for this anime video site, or site which shows current movies for free?
@@ -657,6 +901,12 @@ It is *not* possible to detect whether a URL is supported or not. That's because
If you want to find out whether a given URL is supported, simply call youtube-dl with it. If you get no videos back, chances are the URL is either not referring to a video or unsupported. You can find out which by examining the output (if you run youtube-dl on the console) or catching an `UnsupportedError` exception if you run it from a Python program.
# Why do I need to go through that much red tape when filing bugs?
Before we had the issue template, despite our extensive [bug reporting instructions](#bugs), about 80% of the issue reports we got were useless, for instance because people used ancient versions hundreds of releases old, because of simple syntactic errors (not in youtube-dl but in general shell usage), because the problem was already reported multiple times before, because people did not actually read an error message, even if it said "please install ffmpeg", because people did not mention the URL they were trying to download and many more simple, easy-to-avoid problems, many of whom were totally unrelated to youtube-dl.
youtube-dl is an open-source project manned by too few volunteers, so we'd rather spend time fixing bugs where we are certain none of those simple problems apply, and where we can be reasonably confident to be able to reproduce the issue without asking the reporter repeatedly. As such, the output of `youtube-dl -v YOUR_URL_HERE` is really all that's required to file an issue. The issue template also guides you through some basic steps you can do, such as checking that your version of youtube-dl is current.
# DEVELOPER INSTRUCTIONS
Most users do not need to build youtube-dl and can [download the builds](http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html) or get them from their distribution.
@@ -674,19 +924,29 @@ To run the test, simply invoke your favorite test runner, or execute a test file
If you want to create a build of youtube-dl yourself, you'll need
* python
* make
* make (only GNU make is supported)
* pandoc
* zip
* nosetests
### Adding support for a new site
If you want to add support for a new site, you can follow this quick list (assuming your service is called `yourextractor`):
If you want to add support for a new site, first of all **make sure** this site is **not dedicated to [copyright infringement](README.md#can-you-add-support-for-this-anime-video-site-or-site-which-shows-current-movies-for-free)**. youtube-dl does **not support** such sites thus pull requests adding support for them **will be rejected**.
After you have ensured this site is distributing its content legally, you can follow this quick list (assuming your service is called `yourextractor`):
1. [Fork this repository](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/fork)
2. Check out the source code with `git clone git@github.com:YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/youtube-dl.git`
3. Start a new git branch with `cd youtube-dl; git checkout -b yourextractor`
4. Start with this simple template and save it to `youtube_dl/extractor/yourextractor.py`:
```python
# coding: utf-8
from __future__ import unicode_literals
@@ -703,7 +963,7 @@ If you want to add support for a new site, you can follow this quick list (assum
'id': '42',
'ext': 'mp4',
'title': 'Video title goes here',
'thumbnail': 're:^https?://.*\.jpg$',
'thumbnail': r're:^https?://.*\.jpg$',
# TODO more properties, either as:
# * A value
# * MD5 checksum; start the string with md5:
@@ -727,13 +987,13 @@ If you want to add support for a new site, you can follow this quick list (assum
# TODO more properties (see youtube_dl/extractor/common.py)
}
```
5. Add an import in [`youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py`](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py).
5. Add an import in [`youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py`](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py).
6. Run `python test/test_download.py TestDownload.test_YourExtractor`. This *should fail* at first, but you can continually re-run it until you're done. If you decide to add more than one test, then rename ``_TEST`` to ``_TESTS`` and make it into a list of dictionaries. The tests will then be named `TestDownload.test_YourExtractor`, `TestDownload.test_YourExtractor_1`, `TestDownload.test_YourExtractor_2`, etc.
7. Have a look at [`youtube_dl/extractor/common.py`](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py) for possible helper methods and a [detailed description of what your extractor should and may return](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py#L62-L200). Add tests and code for as many as you want.
8. If you can, check the code with [flake8](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/flake8).
7. Have a look at [`youtube_dl/extractor/common.py`](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py) for possible helper methods and a [detailed description of what your extractor should and may return](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py#L74-L252). Add tests and code for as many as you want.
8. Make sure your code follows [youtube-dl coding conventions](#youtube-dl-coding-conventions) and check the code with [flake8](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/flake8). Also make sure your code works under all [Python](http://www.python.org/) versions claimed supported by youtube-dl, namely 2.6, 2.7, and 3.2+.
9. When the tests pass, [add](http://git-scm.com/docs/git-add) the new files and [commit](http://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit) them and [push](http://git-scm.com/docs/git-push) the result, like this:
$ git add youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
$ git add youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
$ git add youtube_dl/extractor/yourextractor.py
$ git commit -m '[yourextractor] Add new extractor'
$ git push origin yourextractor
@@ -742,6 +1002,139 @@ If you want to add support for a new site, you can follow this quick list (assum
In any case, thank you very much for your contributions!
## youtube-dl coding conventions
This section introduces a guide lines for writing idiomatic, robust and future-proof extractor code.
Extractors are very fragile by nature since they depend on the layout of the source data provided by 3rd party media hosters out of your control and this layout tends to change. As an extractor implementer your task is not only to write code that will extract media links and metadata correctly but also to minimize dependency on the source's layout and even to make the code foresee potential future changes and be ready for that. This is important because it will allow the extractor not to break on minor layout changes thus keeping old youtube-dl versions working. Even though this breakage issue is easily fixed by emitting a new version of youtube-dl with a fix incorporated, all the previous versions become broken in all repositories and distros' packages that may not be so prompt in fetching the update from us. Needless to say, some non rolling release distros may never receive an update at all.
### Mandatory and optional metafields
For extraction to work youtube-dl relies on metadata your extractor extracts and provides to youtube-dl expressed by an [information dictionary](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py#L75-L257) or simply *info dict*. Only the following meta fields in the *info dict* are considered mandatory for a successful extraction process by youtube-dl:
- `id` (media identifier)
- `title` (media title)
- `url` (media download URL) or `formats`
In fact only the last option is technically mandatory (i.e. if you can't figure out the download location of the media the extraction does not make any sense). But by convention youtube-dl also treats `id` and `title` as mandatory. Thus the aforementioned metafields are the critical data that the extraction does not make any sense without and if any of them fail to be extracted then the extractor is considered completely broken.
[Any field](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py#L149-L257) apart from the aforementioned ones are considered **optional**. That means that extraction should be **tolerant** to situations when sources for these fields can potentially be unavailable (even if they are always available at the moment) and **future-proof** in order not to break the extraction of general purpose mandatory fields.
#### Example
Say you have some source dictionary `meta` that you've fetched as JSON with HTTP request and it has a key `summary`:
```python
meta = self._download_json(url, video_id)
```
Assume at this point `meta`'s layout is:
```python
{
...
"summary": "some fancy summary text",
...
}
```
Assume you want to extract `summary` and put it into the resulting info dict as `description`. Since `description` is an optional meta field you should be ready that this key may be missing from the `meta` dict, so that you should extract it like:
```python
description = meta.get('summary') # correct
```
and not like:
```python
description = meta['summary'] # incorrect
```
The latter will break extraction process with `KeyError` if `summary` disappears from `meta` at some later time but with the former approach extraction will just go ahead with `description` set to `None` which is perfectly fine (remember `None` is equivalent to the absence of data).
Similarly, you should pass `fatal=False` when extracting optional data from a webpage with `_search_regex`, `_html_search_regex` or similar methods, for instance:
```python
description = self._search_regex(
r'<span[^>]+id="title"[^>]*>([^<]+)<',
webpage, 'description', fatal=False)
```
With `fatal` set to `False` if `_search_regex` fails to extract `description` it will emit a warning and continue extraction.
You can also pass `default=<somefallbackvalue>`, for example:
```python
description = self._search_regex(
r'<span[^>]+id="title"[^>]*>([^<]+)<',
webpage, 'description', default=None)
```
On failure this code will silently continue the extraction with `description` set to `None`. That is useful for metafields that may or may not be present.
### Provide fallbacks
When extracting metadata try to do so from multiple sources. For example if `title` is present in several places, try extracting from at least some of them. This makes it more future-proof in case some of the sources become unavailable.
#### Example
Say `meta` from the previous example has a `title` and you are about to extract it. Since `title` is a mandatory meta field you should end up with something like:
```python
title = meta['title']
```
If `title` disappears from `meta` in future due to some changes on the hoster's side the extraction would fail since `title` is mandatory. That's expected.
Assume that you have some another source you can extract `title` from, for example `og:title` HTML meta of a `webpage`. In this case you can provide a fallback scenario:
```python
title = meta.get('title') or self._og_search_title(webpage)
```
This code will try to extract from `meta` first and if it fails it will try extracting `og:title` from a `webpage`.
### Make regular expressions flexible
When using regular expressions try to write them fuzzy and flexible.
#### Example
Say you need to extract `title` from the following HTML code:
Wrap all extracted numeric data into safe functions from `utils`: `int_or_none`, `float_or_none`. Use them for string to number conversions as well.
# EMBEDDING YOUTUBE-DL
youtube-dl makes the best effort to be a good command-line program, and thus should be callable from any programming language. If you encounter any problems parsing its output, feel free to [create a report](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/new).
@@ -757,7 +1150,7 @@ with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
Most likely, you'll want to use various options. For a list of what can be done, have a look at [youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py#L117-L265). For a start, if you want to intercept youtube-dl's output, set a `logger` object.
Most likely, you'll want to use various options. For a list of options available, have a look at [`youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py`](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py#L129-L279). For a start, if you want to intercept youtube-dl's output, set a `logger` object.
Here's a more complete example of a program that outputs only errors (and a short message after the download is finished), and downloads/converts the video to an mp3 file:
@@ -798,9 +1191,23 @@ with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
# BUGS
Bugs and suggestions should be reported at: <https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues>. Unless you were prompted so or there is another pertinent reason (e.g. GitHub fails to accept the bug report), please do not send bug reports via personal email. For discussions, join us in the irc channel #youtube-dl on freenode.
Bugs and suggestions should be reported at: <https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues>. Unless you were prompted to or there is another pertinent reason (e.g. GitHub fails to accept the bug report), please do not send bug reports via personal email. For discussions, join us in the IRC channel [#youtube-dl](irc://chat.freenode.net/#youtube-dl) on freenode ([webchat](http://webchat.freenode.net/?randomnick=1&channels=youtube-dl)).
**Please include the full output of youtube-dl when run with `-v`**.
**Please include the full output of youtube-dl when run with `-v`**, i.e. **add** `-v` flag to **your command line**, copy the **whole** output and post it in the issue body wrapped in \`\`\` for better formatting. It should look similar to this:
**Do not post screenshots of verbose logs; only plain text is acceptable.**
The output (including the first lines) contains important debugging information. Issues without the full output are often not reproducible and therefore do not get solved in short order, if ever.
@@ -816,13 +1223,13 @@ So please elaborate on what feature you are requesting, or what bug you want to
- How it could be fixed
- How your proposed solution would look like
If your report is shorter than two lines, it is almost certainly missing some of these, which makes it hard for us to respond to it. We're often too polite to close the issue outright, but the missing info makes misinterpretation likely. As a commiter myself, I often get frustrated by these issues, since the only possible way for me to move forward on them is to ask for clarification over and over.
If your report is shorter than two lines, it is almost certainly missing some of these, which makes it hard for us to respond to it. We're often too polite to close the issue outright, but the missing info makes misinterpretation likely. As a committer myself, I often get frustrated by these issues, since the only possible way for me to move forward on them is to ask for clarification over and over.
For bug reports, this means that your report should contain the *complete* output of youtube-dl when called with the `-v` flag. The error message you get for (most) bugs even says so, but you would not believe how many of our bug reports do not contain this information.
If your server has multiple IPs or you suspect censorship, adding `--call-home` may be a good idea to get more diagnostics. If the error is `ERROR: Unable to extract ...` and you cannot reproduce it from multiple countries, add `--dump-pages` (warning: this will yield a rather large output, redirect it to the file `log.txt` by adding `>log.txt 2>&1` to your command-line) or upload the `.dump` files you get when you add `--write-pages` [somewhere](https://gist.github.com/).
**Site support requests must contain an example URL**. An example URL is a URL you might want to download, like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc. There should be an obvious video present. Except under very special circumstances, the main page of a video service (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/) is *not* an example URL.
**Site support requests must contain an example URL**. An example URL is a URL you might want to download, like `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc`. There should be an obvious video present. Except under very special circumstances, the main page of a video service (e.g. `http://www.youtube.com/`) is *not* an example URL.
### Are you using the latest version?
@@ -830,11 +1237,11 @@ Before reporting any issue, type `youtube-dl -U`. This should report that you're
### Is the issue already documented?
Make sure that someone has not already opened the issue you're trying to open. Search at the top of the window or at https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/search?type=Issues. If there is an issue, feel free to write something along the lines of "This affects me as well, with version 2015.01.01. Here is some more information on the issue: ...". While some issues may be old, a new post into them often spurs rapid activity.
Make sure that someone has not already opened the issue you're trying to open. Search at the top of the window or browse the [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/search?type=Issues) of this repository. If there is an issue, feel free to write something along the lines of "This affects me as well, with version 2015.01.01. Here is some more information on the issue: ...". While some issues may be old, a new post into them often spurs rapid activity.
### Why are existing options not enough?
Before requesting a new feature, please have a quick peek at [the list of supported options](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#synopsis). Many feature requests are for features that actually exist already! Please, absolutely do show off your work in the issue report and detail how the existing similar options do *not* solve your problem.
Before requesting a new feature, please have a quick peek at [the list of supported options](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#options). Many feature requests are for features that actually exist already! Please, absolutely do show off your work in the issue report and detail how the existing similar options do *not* solve your problem.
### Is there enough context in your bug report?
@@ -846,7 +1253,7 @@ We are then presented with a very complicated request when the original problem
Some of our users seem to think there is a limit of issues they can or should open. There is no limit of issues they can or should open. While it may seem appealing to be able to dump all your issues into one ticket, that means that someone who solves one of your issues cannot mark the issue as closed. Typically, reporting a bunch of issues leads to the ticket lingering since nobody wants to attack that behemoth, until someone mercifully splits the issue into multiple ones.
In particular, every site support request issue should only pertain to services at one site (generally under a common domain, but always using the same backend technology). Do not request support for vimeo user videos, Whitehouse podcasts, and Google Plus pages in the same issue. Also, make sure that you don't post bug reports alongside feature requests. As a rule of thumb, a feature request does not include outputs of youtube-dl that are not immediately related to the feature at hand. Do not post reports of a network error alongside the request for a new video service.
In particular, every site support request issue should only pertain to services at one site (generally under a common domain, but always using the same backend technology). Do not request support for vimeo user videos, Whitehouse podcasts, and Google Plus pages in the same issue. Also, make sure that you don't post bug reports alongside feature requests. As a rule of thumb, a feature request does not include outputs of youtube-dl that are not immediately related to the feature at hand. Do not post reports of a network error alongside the request for a new video service.
### Is anyone going to need the feature?
@@ -854,10 +1261,10 @@ Only post features that you (or an incapacitated friend you can personally talk
### Is your question about youtube-dl?
It may sound strange, but some bug reports we receive are completely unrelated to youtube-dl and relate to a different or even the reporter's own application. Please make sure that you are actually using youtube-dl. If you are using a UI for youtube-dl, report the bug to the maintainer of the actual application providing the UI. On the other hand, if your UI for youtube-dl fails in some way you believe is related to youtube-dl, by all means, go ahead and report the bug.
It may sound strange, but some bug reports we receive are completely unrelated to youtube-dl and relate to a different, or even the reporter's own, application. Please make sure that you are actually using youtube-dl. If you are using a UI for youtube-dl, report the bug to the maintainer of the actual application providing the UI. On the other hand, if your UI for youtube-dl fails in some way you believe is related to youtube-dl, by all means, go ahead and report the bug.
# COPYRIGHT
youtube-dl is released into the public domain by the copyright holders.
This README file was originally written by Daniel Bolton (<https://github.com/dbbolton>) and is likewise released into the public domain.
This README file was originally written by [Daniel Bolton](https://github.com/dbbolton) and is likewise released into the public domain.
self.report_warning('Could not find fribidi executable, ignoring --bidi-workaround . Make sure that fribidi is an executable file in one of the directories in your $PATH.')
else:
raise
@@ -353,6 +380,8 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
forphinself.params.get('progress_hooks',[]):
self.add_progress_hook(ph)
register_socks_protocols()
defwarn_if_short_id(self,argv):
# short YouTube ID starting with dash?
idxs=[
@@ -372,8 +401,9 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
defadd_info_extractor(self,ie):
"""Add an InfoExtractor object to the end of the list."""
self._ies.append(ie)
self._ies_instances[ie.ie_key()]=ie
ie.set_downloader(self)
ifnotisinstance(ie,type):
self._ies_instances[ie.ie_key()]=ie
ie.set_downloader(self)
defget_info_extractor(self,ie_key):
"""
@@ -391,7 +421,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
"""
Add the InfoExtractors returned by gen_extractors to the end of the list
@@ -68,7 +66,7 @@ class AdultSwimIE(InfoExtractor):
'md5':'3e346a2ab0087d687a05e1e7f3b3e529',
'info_dict':{
'id':'sY3cMUR_TbuE4YmdjzbIcQ-0',
'ext':'flv',
'ext':'mp4',
'title':'Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! - Dr. Steve Brule, For Your Wine',
'description':'Dr. Brule reports live from Wine Country with a special report on wines. \r\nWatch Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! episode #20, "Embarrassed" on Adult Swim.\r\n\r\n',
},
@@ -79,6 +77,46 @@ class AdultSwimIE(InfoExtractor):
'title':'Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! - Dr. Steve Brule, For Your Wine',
'description':'Dr. Brule reports live from Wine Country with a special report on wines. \r\nWatch Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! episode #20, "Embarrassed" on Adult Swim.\r\n\r\n',
'description':'Brings together privacy professionals and others interested in privacy at for-profits, non-profits, and NGOs in an effort to contribute to the state of the ecosystem...',
'description':'In denial about his current situation, Marc is reluctantly convinced by his friends to enter rehab. Starring Marc Maron and Constance Zimmer.',
'title':'U.S. Official Warns Of \'Largest Ever\' IRS Phone Scam',
'description':'A major phone scam has cost thousands of taxpayers more than $1 million, with less than a month until income tax returns are due to the IRS.',
@@ -154,11 +174,15 @@ class ARDMediathekIE(InfoExtractor):
webpage=self._download_webpage(url,video_id)
if'>Der gewünschte Beitrag ist nicht mehr verfügbar.<'inwebpage:
raiseExtractorError('Video %s is no longer available'%video_id,expected=True)
ERRORS=(
('>Leider liegt eine Störung vor.','Video %s is unavailable'),
('>Der gewünschte Beitrag ist nicht mehr verfügbar.<',
'Video %s is no longer available'),
)
if'Diese Sendung ist für Jugendliche unter 12 Jahren nicht geeignet. Der Clip ist deshalb nur von 20 bis 6 Uhr verfügbar.'inwebpage:
raiseExtractorError('This program is only suitable for those aged 12 and older. Video %s is therefore only available between 20 pm and 6 am.'%video_id,expected=True)
'title':'Seppelt: "Kokain hat nichts mit klassischem Doping zu tun"',
'thumbnail':'re:^https?://.*\.jpg$',
'description':'Der ARD-Doping Experte Hajo Seppelt gibt seine Einschätzung zum ersten Dopingfall der diesjährigen Tour de France um den Italiener Luca Paolini ab.',
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