yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork based on the now inactive youtube-dlc. The main focus of this project is adding new features and patches while also keeping up to date with the original project
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yt-dlp [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
Options:
General Options:
-h, --help Print this help text and exit
--version Print program version and exit
-U, --update Check if updates are available. You installed yt-dlp with pip or using the wheel from PyPi; Use that to update
--no-update Do not check for updates (default)
-i, --ignore-errors Ignore download and postprocessing errors. The download will be considered successful even if the postprocessing fails
--no-abort-on-error Continue with next video on download errors; e.g. to skip unavailable videos in a playlist (default)
--abort-on-error Abort downloading of further videos if an error occurs (Alias: --no-ignore-errors)
--dump-user-agent Display the current user-agent and exit
--list-extractors List all supported extractors and exit
--extractor-descriptions Output descriptions of all supported extractors and exit
--use-extractors NAMES Extractor names to use separated by commas. You can also use regexes, "all", "default" and "end" (end URL matching); e.g. --ies
"holodex.*,end,youtube". Prefix the name with a "-" to exclude it, e.g. --ies default,-generic. Use --list-extractors for a list of extractor names.
(Alias: --ies)
--default-search PREFIX Use this prefix for unqualified URLs. E.g. "gvsearch2:python" downloads two videos from google videos for the search term "python". Use the value
"auto" to let yt-dlp guess ("auto_warning" to emit a warning when guessing). "error" just throws an error. The default value "fixup_error" repairs
broken URLs, but emits an error if this is not possible instead of searching
--ignore-config Don't load any more configuration files except those given by --config-locations. For backward compatibility, if this option is found inside the system
configuration file, the user configuration is not loaded. (Alias: --no-config)
--no-config-locations Do not load any custom configuration files (default). When given inside a configuration file, ignore all previous --config-locations defined in the
current file
--config-locations PATH Location of the main configuration file; either the path to the config or its containing directory ("-" for stdin). Can be used multiple times and
inside other configuration files
--flat-playlist Do not extract the videos of a playlist, only list them
--no-flat-playlist Extract the videos of a playlist
--live-from-start Download livestreams from the start. Currently only supported for YouTube (Experimental)
--no-live-from-start Download livestreams from the current time (default)
--wait-for-video MIN[-MAX] Wait for scheduled streams to become available. Pass the minimum number of seconds (or range) to wait between retries
--no-wait-for-video Do not wait for scheduled streams (default)
--mark-watched Mark videos watched (even with --simulate)
--no-mark-watched Do not mark videos watched (default)
--no-colors Do not emit color codes in output (Alias: --no-colours)
--compat-options OPTS Options that can help keep compatibility with youtube-dl or youtube-dlc configurations by reverting some of the changes made in yt-dlp. See
"Differences in default behavior" for details
--alias ALIASES OPTIONS Create aliases for an option string. Unless an alias starts with a dash "-", it is prefixed with "--". Arguments are parsed according to the Python
string formatting mini-language. E.g. --alias get-audio,-X "-S=aext:{0},abr -x --audio-format {0}" creates options "--get-audio" and "-X" that takes an
argument (ARG0) and expands to "-S=aext:ARG0,abr -x --audio-format ARG0". All defined aliases are listed in the --help output. Alias options can
trigger more aliases; so be careful to avoid defining recursive options. As a safety measure, each alias may be triggered a maximum of 100 times. This
option can be used multiple times
Network Options:
--proxy URL Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy. To enable SOCKS proxy, specify a proper scheme, e.g. socks5://user:pass@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
-4, --force-ipv4 Make all connections via IPv4
-6, --force-ipv6 Make all connections via IPv6
Geo-restriction:
--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 option is not present)
is used for the actual downloading
--geo-bypass Bypass geographic restriction via faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header (default)
--no-geo-bypass Do not bypass geographic restriction via faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header
--geo-bypass-country CODE Force bypass geographic restriction with explicitly provided two-letter ISO 3166-2 country code
--geo-bypass-ip-block IP_BLOCK Force bypass geographic restriction with explicitly provided IP block in CIDR notation
Video Selection:
-I, --playlist-items ITEM_SPEC Comma separated playlist_index of the videos to download. You can specify a range using "[START]:[STOP][:STEP]". For backward compatibility, START-STOP
is also supported. Use negative indices to count from the right and negative STEP to download in reverse order. E.g. "-I 1:3,7,-5::2" used on a
playlist of size 15 will download the videos at index 1,2,3,7,11,13,15
--min-filesize SIZE Do not download any videos smaller than SIZE, e.g. 50k or 44.6M
--max-filesize SIZE Do not download any videos larger than SIZE, e.g. 50k or 44.6M
--date DATE Download only videos uploaded on this date. The date can be "YYYYMMDD" or in the format [now|today|yesterday][-N[day|week|month|year]]. E.g. --date
today-2weeks
--datebefore DATE Download only videos uploaded on or before this date. The date formats accepted is the same as --date
--dateafter DATE Download only videos uploaded on or after this date. The date formats accepted is the same as --date
--match-filters FILTER Generic video filter. Any "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" field can be compared with a number or a string using the operators defined in "Filtering Formats". You can
also simply specify a field to match if the field is present, use "!field" to check if the field is not present, and "&" to check multiple conditions.
Use a "\" to escape "&" or quotes if needed. If used multiple times, the filter matches if atleast one of the conditions are met. E.g. --match-filter
!is_live --match-filter "like_count>?100 & description~='(?i)\bcats \& dogs\b'" matches only videos that are not live OR those that have a like count
more than 100 (or the like field is not available) and also has a description that contains the phrase "cats & dogs" (caseless). Use "--match-filter -"
to interactively ask whether to download each video
--no-match-filter Do not use generic video filter (default)
--no-playlist Download only the video, if the URL refers to a video and a playlist
--yes-playlist Download the playlist, if the URL refers to a video and a playlist
--age-limit YEARS Download only videos suitable for the given age
--download-archive FILE Download only videos not listed in the archive file. Record the IDs of all downloaded videos in it
--no-download-archive Do not use archive file (default)
--max-downloads NUMBER Abort after downloading NUMBER files
--break-on-existing Stop the download process when encountering a file that is in the archive
--break-on-reject Stop the download process when encountering a file that has been filtered out
--break-per-input --break-on-existing, --break-on-reject, --max-downloads, and autonumber resets per input URL
--no-break-per-input --break-on-existing and similar options terminates the entire download queue
--skip-playlist-after-errors N Number of allowed failures until the rest of the playlist is skipped
Download Options:
-N, --concurrent-fragments N Number of fragments of a dash/hlsnative video that should be downloaded concurrently (default is 1)
-r, --limit-rate RATE Maximum download rate in bytes per second, e.g. 50K or 4.2M
--throttled-rate RATE Minimum download rate in bytes per second below which throttling is assumed and the video data is re-extracted, e.g. 100K
-R, --retries RETRIES Number of retries (default is 10), or "infinite"
--file-access-retries RETRIES Number of times to retry on file access error (default is 3), or "infinite"
--fragment-retries RETRIES Number of retries for a fragment (default is 10), or "infinite" (DASH, hlsnative and ISM)
--retry-sleep [TYPE:]EXPR Time to sleep between retries in seconds (optionally) prefixed by the type of retry (http (default), fragment, file_access, extractor) to apply the
sleep to. EXPR can be a number, linear=START[:END[:STEP=1]] or exp=START[:END[:BASE=2]]. This option can be used multiple times to set the sleep for
the different retry types, e.g. --retry-sleep linear=1::2 --retry-sleep fragment:exp=1:20
--skip-unavailable-fragments Skip unavailable fragments for DASH, hlsnative and ISM downloads (default) (Alias: --no-abort-on-unavailable-fragment)
--abort-on-unavailable-fragment Abort download if a fragment is unavailable (Alias: --no-skip-unavailable-fragments)
--keep-fragments Keep downloaded fragments on disk after downloading is finished
--no-keep-fragments Delete downloaded fragments after downloading is finished (default)
--buffer-size SIZE Size of download buffer, e.g. 1024 or 16K (default is 1024)
--resize-buffer The buffer size is automatically resized from an initial value of --buffer-size (default)
--no-resize-buffer Do not automatically adjust the buffer size
--http-chunk-size SIZE Size of a chunk for chunk-based HTTP downloading, e.g. 10485760 or 10M (default is disabled). May be useful for bypassing bandwidth throttling imposed
by a webserver (experimental)
--playlist-random Download playlist videos in random order
--lazy-playlist Process entries in the playlist as they are received. This disables n_entries, --playlist-random and --playlist-reverse
--no-lazy-playlist Process videos in the playlist only after the entire playlist is parsed (default)
--xattr-set-filesize Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with expected file size
--hls-use-mpegts Use the mpegts container for HLS videos; allowing some players to play the video while downloading, and reducing the chance of file corruption if
download is interrupted. This is enabled by default for live streams
--no-hls-use-mpegts Do not use the mpegts container for HLS videos. This is default when not downloading live streams
--download-sections REGEX Download only chapters whose title matches the given regular expression. Time ranges prefixed by a "*" can also be used in place of chapters to
download the specified range. Needs ffmpeg. This option can be used multiple times to download multiple sections, e.g. --download-sections
"*10:15-15:00" --download-sections "intro"
--downloader [PROTO:]NAME Name or path of the external downloader to use (optionally) prefixed by the protocols (http, ftp, m3u8, dash, rstp, rtmp, mms) to use it for. Currently
supports native, aria2c, avconv, axel, curl, ffmpeg, httpie, wget. You can use this option multiple times to set different downloaders for different
protocols. E.g. --downloader aria2c --downloader "dash,m3u8:native" will use aria2c for http/ftp downloads, and the native downloader for dash/m3u8
downloads (Alias: --external-downloader)
--downloader-args NAME:ARGS Give these arguments to the external downloader. Specify the downloader name and the arguments separated by a colon ":". For ffmpeg, arguments can be
passed to different positions using the same syntax as --postprocessor-args. You can use this option multiple times to give different arguments to
different downloaders (Alias: --external-downloader-args)
Filesystem Options:
-a, --batch-file FILE File containing URLs to download ("-" for stdin), one URL per line. Lines starting with "#", ";" or "]" are considered as comments and ignored
--no-batch-file Do not read URLs from batch file (default)
-P, --paths [TYPES:]PATH The paths where the files should be downloaded. Specify the type of file and the path separated by a colon ":". All the same TYPES as --output are
supported. Additionally, you can also provide "home" (default) and "temp" paths. All intermediary files are first downloaded to the temp path and then
the final files are moved over to the home path after download is finished. This option is ignored if --output is an absolute path
-o, --output [TYPES:]TEMPLATE Output filename template; see "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details
--output-na-placeholder TEXT Placeholder for unavailable fields in "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" (default: "NA")
--restrict-filenames Restrict filenames to only ASCII characters, and avoid "&" and spaces in filenames
--no-restrict-filenames Allow Unicode characters, "&" and spaces in filenames (default)
--windows-filenames Force filenames to be Windows-compatible
--no-windows-filenames Make filenames Windows-compatible only if using Windows (default)
--trim-filenames LENGTH Limit the filename length (excluding extension) to the specified number of characters
-w, --no-overwrites Do not overwrite any files
--force-overwrites Overwrite all video and metadata files. This option includes --no-continue
--no-force-overwrites Do not overwrite the video, but overwrite related files (default)
-c, --continue Resume partially downloaded files/fragments (default)
--no-continue Do not resume partially downloaded fragments. If the file is not fragmented, restart download of the entire file
--part Use .part files instead of writing directly into output file (default)
--no-part Do not use .part files - write directly into output file
--mtime Use the Last-modified header to set the file modification time (default)
--no-mtime Do not use the Last-modified header to set the file modification time
--write-description Write video description to a .description file
--no-write-description Do not write video description (default)
--write-info-json Write video metadata to a .info.json file (this may contain personal information)
--no-write-info-json Do not write video metadata (default)
--write-playlist-metafiles Write playlist metadata in addition to the video metadata when using --write-info-json, --write-description etc. (default)
--no-write-playlist-metafiles Do not write playlist metadata when using --write-info-json, --write-description etc.
--clean-info-json Remove some private fields such as filenames from the infojson. Note that it could still contain some personal information (default)
--no-clean-info-json Write all fields to the infojson
--write-comments Retrieve video comments to be placed in the infojson. The comments are fetched even without this option if the extraction is known to be quick (Alias:
--get-comments)
--no-write-comments Do not retrieve video comments unless the extraction is known to be quick (Alias: --no-get-comments)
--load-info-json FILE JSON file containing the video information (created with the "--write-info-json" option)
--cookies FILE Netscape formatted file to read cookies from and dump cookie jar in
--no-cookies Do not read/dump cookies from/to file (default)
--cookies-from-browser BROWSER[+KEYRING][:PROFILE][::CONTAINER] The name of the browser to load cookies from. Currently supported browsers are: brave, chrome, chromium, edge, firefox, opera, safari, vivaldi.
Optionally, the KEYRING used for decrypting Chromium cookies on Linux, the name/path of the PROFILE to load cookies from, and the CONTAINER name (if
Firefox) ("none" for no container) can be given with their respective seperators. By default, all containers of the most recently accessed profile are
used. Currently supported keyrings are: basictext, gnomekeyring, kwallet
--no-cookies-from-browser Do not load cookies from browser (default)
--cache-dir DIR Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl can store some downloaded information (such as client ids and signatures) permanently. By default
$XDG_CACHE_HOME/yt-dlp or ~/.cache/yt-dlp
--no-cache-dir Disable filesystem caching
--rm-cache-dir Delete all filesystem cache files
Thumbnail Options:
--write-thumbnail Write thumbnail image to disk
--no-write-thumbnail Do not write thumbnail image to disk (default)
--write-all-thumbnails Write all thumbnail image formats to disk
--list-thumbnails List available thumbnails of each video. Simulate unless --no-simulate is used
Internet Shortcut Options:
--write-link Write an internet shortcut file, depending on the current platform (.url, .webloc or .desktop). The URL may be cached by the OS
--write-url-link Write a .url Windows internet shortcut. The OS caches the URL based on the file path
--write-webloc-link Write a .webloc macOS internet shortcut
--write-desktop-link Write a .desktop Linux internet shortcut
Verbosity and Simulation Options:
-q, --quiet Activate quiet mode. If used with --verbose, print the log to stderr
--no-warnings Ignore warnings
-s, --simulate Do not download the video and do not write anything to disk
--no-simulate Download the video even if printing/listing options are used
--ignore-no-formats-error Ignore "No video formats" error. Useful for extracting metadata even if the videos are not actually available for download (experimental)
--no-ignore-no-formats-error Throw error when no downloadable video formats are found (default)
--skip-download Do not download the video but write all related files (Alias: --no-download)
-O, --print [WHEN:]TEMPLATE Field name or output template to print to screen, optionally prefixed with when to print it, separated by a ":". Supported values of "WHEN" are the
same as that of --use-postprocessor, and "video" (default). Implies --quiet. Implies --simulate unless --no-simulate or later stages of WHEN are used.
This option can be used multiple times
--print-to-file [WHEN:]TEMPLATE FILE Append given template to the file. The values of WHEN and TEMPLATE are same as that of --print. FILE uses the same syntax as the output template. This
option can be used multiple times
-j, --dump-json Quiet, but print JSON information for each video. Simulate unless --no-simulate is used. See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for a description of available keys
-J, --dump-single-json Quiet, but print JSON information for each url or infojson passed. Simulate unless --no-simulate is used. If the URL refers to a playlist, the whole
playlist information is dumped in a single line
--force-write-archive Force download archive entries to be written as far as no errors occur, even if -s or another simulation option is used (Alias: --force-download-
archive)
--newline Output progress bar as new lines
--no-progress Do not print progress bar
--progress Show progress bar, even if in quiet mode
--console-title Display progress in console titlebar
--progress-template [TYPES:]TEMPLATE Template for progress outputs, optionally prefixed with one of "download:" (default), "download-title:" (the console title), "postprocess:", or
"postprocess-title:". The video's fields are accessible under the "info" key and the progress attributes are accessible under "progress" key. E.g.
--console-title --progress-template "download-title:%(info.id)s-%(progress.eta)s"
-v, --verbose Print various debugging information
--dump-pages Print downloaded pages encoded using base64 to debug problems (very verbose)
--write-pages Write downloaded intermediary pages to files in the current directory to debug problems
--print-traffic Display sent and read HTTP traffic
Workarounds:
--encoding ENCODING Force the specified encoding (experimental)
--legacy-server-connect Explicitly allow HTTPS connection to servers that do not support RFC 5746 secure renegotiation
--no-check-certificates Suppress HTTPS certificate validation
--prefer-insecure Use an unencrypted connection to retrieve information about the video (Currently supported only for YouTube)
--add-header FIELD:VALUE Specify a custom HTTP header and its value, separated by a colon ":". You can use this option multiple times
--bidi-workaround Work around terminals that lack bidirectional text support. Requires bidiv or fribidi executable in PATH
--sleep-requests SECONDS Number of seconds to sleep between requests during data extraction
--sleep-interval SECONDS Number of seconds to sleep before each download. This is the minimum time to sleep when used along with --max-sleep-interval (Alias: --min-sleep-
interval)
--max-sleep-interval SECONDS Maximum number of seconds to sleep. Can only be used along with --min-sleep-interval
--sleep-subtitles SECONDS Number of seconds to sleep before each subtitle download
Video Format Options:
-f, --format FORMAT Video format code, see "FORMAT SELECTION" for more details
-S, --format-sort SORTORDER Sort the formats by the fields given, see "Sorting Formats" for more details
--format-sort-force Force user specified sort order to have precedence over all fields, see "Sorting Formats" for more details (Alias: --S-force)
--no-format-sort-force Some fields have precedence over the user specified sort order (default)
--video-multistreams Allow multiple video streams to be merged into a single file
--no-video-multistreams Only one video stream is downloaded for each output file (default)
--audio-multistreams Allow multiple audio streams to be merged into a single file
--no-audio-multistreams Only one audio stream is downloaded for each output file (default)
--prefer-free-formats Prefer video formats with free containers over non-free ones of same quality. Use with "-S ext" to strictly prefer free containers irrespective of
quality
--no-prefer-free-formats Don't give any special preference to free containers (default)
--check-formats Make sure formats are selected only from those that are actually downloadable
--check-all-formats Check all formats for whether they are actually downloadable
--no-check-formats Do not check that the formats are actually downloadable
-F, --list-formats List available formats of each video. Simulate unless --no-simulate is used
--merge-output-format FORMAT Containers that may be used when merging formats, separated by "/", e.g. "mp4/mkv". Ignored if no merge is required. (currently supported: avi, flv,
mkv, mov, mp4, webm)
Subtitle Options:
--write-subs Write subtitle file
--no-write-subs Do not write subtitle file (default)
--write-auto-subs Write automatically generated subtitle file (Alias: --write-automatic-subs)
--no-write-auto-subs Do not write auto-generated subtitles (default) (Alias: --no-write-automatic-subs)
--list-subs List available subtitles of each video. Simulate unless --no-simulate is used
--sub-format FORMAT Subtitle format; accepts formats preference, e.g. "srt" or "ass/srt/best"
--sub-langs LANGS Languages of the subtitles to download (can be regex) or "all" separated by commas, e.g. --sub-langs "en.*,ja". You can prefix the language code with a
"-" to exclude it from the requested languages, e.g. --sub-langs all,-live_chat. Use --list-subs for a list of available language tags
Authentication Options:
-u, --username USERNAME Login with this account ID
-p, --password PASSWORD Account password. If this option is left out, yt-dlp will ask interactively
-2, --twofactor TWOFACTOR Two-factor authentication code
-n, --netrc Use .netrc authentication data
--netrc-location PATH Location of .netrc authentication data; either the path or its containing directory. Defaults to ~/.netrc
--video-password PASSWORD Video password (vimeo, youku)
--ap-mso MSO Adobe Pass multiple-system operator (TV provider) identifier, use --ap-list-mso for a list of available MSOs
--ap-username USERNAME Multiple-system operator account login
--ap-password PASSWORD Multiple-system operator account password. If this option is left out, yt-dlp will ask interactively
--ap-list-mso List all supported multiple-system operators
--client-certificate CERTFILE Path to client certificate file in PEM format. May include the private key
--client-certificate-key KEYFILE Path to private key file for client certificate
--client-certificate-password PASSWORD Password for client certificate private key, if encrypted. If not provided, and the key is encrypted, yt-dlp will ask interactively
Post-Processing Options:
-x, --extract-audio Convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg and ffprobe)
--audio-format FORMAT Format to convert the audio to when -x is used. (currently supported: best (default), aac, alac, flac, m4a, mp3, opus, vorbis, wav). You can specify
multiple rules using similar syntax as --remux-video
--audio-quality QUALITY Specify ffmpeg audio quality to use when converting the audio with -x. Insert a value between 0 (best) and 10 (worst) for VBR or a specific bitrate
like 128K (default 5)
--remux-video FORMAT Remux the video into another container if necessary (currently supported: avi, flv, mkv, mov, mp4, webm, aac, aiff, alac, flac, m4a, mka, mp3, ogg,
opus, vorbis, wav). If target container does not support the video/audio codec, remuxing will fail. You can specify multiple rules; e.g.
"aac>m4a/mov>mp4/mkv" will remux aac to m4a, mov to mp4 and anything else to mkv
--recode-video FORMAT Re-encode the video into another format if necessary. The syntax and supported formats are the same as --remux-video
--postprocessor-args NAME:ARGS Give these arguments to the postprocessors. Specify the postprocessor/executable name and the arguments separated by a colon ":" to give the argument
to the specified postprocessor/executable. Supported PP are: Merger, ModifyChapters, SplitChapters, ExtractAudio, VideoRemuxer, VideoConvertor,
Metadata, EmbedSubtitle, EmbedThumbnail, SubtitlesConvertor, ThumbnailsConvertor, FixupStretched, FixupM4a, FixupM3u8, FixupTimestamp and
FixupDuration. The supported executables are: AtomicParsley, FFmpeg and FFprobe. You can also specify "PP+EXE:ARGS" to give the arguments to the
specified executable only when being used by the specified postprocessor. Additionally, for ffmpeg/ffprobe, "_i"/"_o" can be appended to the prefix
optionally followed by a number to pass the argument before the specified input/output file, e.g. --ppa "Merger+ffmpeg_i1:-v quiet". You can use this
option multiple times to give different arguments to different postprocessors. (Alias: --ppa)
-k, --keep-video Keep the intermediate video file on disk after post-processing
--no-keep-video Delete the intermediate video file after post-processing (default)
--post-overwrites Overwrite post-processed files (default)
--no-post-overwrites Do not overwrite post-processed files
--embed-subs Embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4, webm and mkv videos)
--no-embed-subs Do not embed subtitles (default)
--embed-thumbnail Embed thumbnail in the video as cover art
--no-embed-thumbnail Do not embed thumbnail (default)
--embed-metadata Embed metadata to the video file. Also embeds chapters/infojson if present unless --no-embed-chapters/--no-embed-info-json are used (Alias: --add-
metadata)
--no-embed-metadata Do not add metadata to file (default) (Alias: --no-add-metadata)
--embed-chapters Add chapter markers to the video file (Alias: --add-chapters)
--no-embed-chapters Do not add chapter markers (default) (Alias: --no-add-chapters)
--embed-info-json Embed the infojson as an attachment to mkv/mka video files
--no-embed-info-json Do not embed the infojson as an attachment to the video file
--parse-metadata FROM:TO Parse additional metadata like title/artist from other fields; see "MODIFYING METADATA" for details
--replace-in-metadata FIELDS REGEX REPLACE Replace text in a metadata field using the given regex. This option can be used multiple times
--xattrs Write metadata to the video file's xattrs (using dublin core and xdg standards)
--concat-playlist POLICY Concatenate videos in a playlist. One of "never", "always", or "multi_video" (default; only when the videos form a single show). All the video files
must have same codecs and number of streams to be concatable. The "pl_video:" prefix can be used with "--paths" and "--output" to set the output
filename for the concatenated files. See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details
--fixup POLICY Automatically correct known faults of the file. One of never (do nothing), warn (only emit a warning), detect_or_warn (the default; fix file if we can,
warn otherwise), force (try fixing even if file already exists)
--ffmpeg-location PATH Location of the ffmpeg binary; either the path to the binary or its containing directory
--exec [WHEN:]CMD Execute a command, optionally prefixed with when to execute it (after_move if unspecified), separated by a ":". Supported values of "WHEN" are the same
as that of --use-postprocessor. Same syntax as the output template can be used to pass any field as arguments to the command. After download, an
additional field "filepath" that contains the final path of the downloaded file is also available, and if no fields are passed, %(filepath)q is
appended to the end of the command. This option can be used multiple times
--no-exec Remove any previously defined --exec
--convert-subs FORMAT Convert the subtitles to another format (currently supported: ass, lrc, srt, vtt) (Alias: --convert-subtitles)
--convert-thumbnails FORMAT Convert the thumbnails to another format (currently supported: jpg, png, webp). You can specify multiple rules using similar syntax as --remux-video
--split-chapters Split video into multiple files based on internal chapters. The "chapter:" prefix can be used with "--paths" and "--output" to set the output filename
for the split files. See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details
--no-split-chapters Do not split video based on chapters (default)
--remove-chapters REGEX Remove chapters whose title matches the given regular expression. The syntax is the same as --download-sections. This option can be used multiple times
--no-remove-chapters Do not remove any chapters from the file (default)
--force-keyframes-at-cuts Force keyframes at cuts when downloading/splitting/removing sections. This is slow due to needing a re-encode, but the resulting video may have fewer
artifacts around the cuts
--no-force-keyframes-at-cuts Do not force keyframes around the chapters when cutting/splitting (default)
--use-postprocessor NAME[:ARGS] The (case sensitive) name of plugin postprocessors to be enabled, and (optionally) arguments to be passed to it, separated by a colon ":". ARGS are a
semicolon ";" delimited list of NAME=VALUE. The "when" argument determines when the postprocessor is invoked. It can be one of "pre_process" (after
video extraction), "after_filter" (after video passes filter), "before_dl" (before each video download), "post_process" (after each video download;
default), "after_move" (after moving video file to it's final locations), "after_video" (after downloading and processing all formats of a video), or
"playlist" (at end of playlist). This option can be used multiple times to add different postprocessors
SponsorBlock Options:
Make chapter entries for, or remove various segments (sponsor, introductions, etc.) from downloaded YouTube videos using the SponsorBlock API (https://sponsor.ajay.app)
--sponsorblock-mark CATS SponsorBlock categories to create chapters for, separated by commas. Available categories are sponsor, intro, outro, selfpromo, preview, filler,
interaction, music_offtopic, poi_highlight, all and default (=all). You can prefix the category with a "-" to exclude it. See [1] for description of
the categories. E.g. --sponsorblock-mark all,-preview [1] https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/w/Segment_Categories
--sponsorblock-remove CATS SponsorBlock categories to be removed from the video file, separated by commas. If a category is present in both mark and remove, remove takes
precedence. The syntax and available categories are the same as for --sponsorblock-mark except that "default" refers to "all,-filler" and poi_highlight
is not available
--sponsorblock-chapter-title TEMPLATE An output template for the title of the SponsorBlock chapters created by --sponsorblock-mark. The only available fields are start_time, end_time,
category, categories, name, category_names. Defaults to "[SponsorBlock]: %(category_names)l"
--no-sponsorblock Disable both --sponsorblock-mark and --sponsorblock-remove
--sponsorblock-api URL SponsorBlock API location, defaults to https://sponsor.ajay.app
Extractor Options:
--extractor-retries RETRIES Number of retries for known extractor errors (default is 3), or "infinite"
--allow-dynamic-mpd Process dynamic DASH manifests (default) (Alias: --no-ignore-dynamic-mpd)
--ignore-dynamic-mpd Do not process dynamic DASH manifests (Alias: --no-allow-dynamic-mpd)
--hls-split-discontinuity Split HLS playlists to different formats at discontinuities such as ad breaks
--no-hls-split-discontinuity Do not split HLS playlists to different formats at discontinuities such as ad breaks (default)
--extractor-args KEY:ARGS Pass these arguments to the extractor. See "EXTRACTOR ARGUMENTS" for details. You can use this option multiple times to give arguments for different
extractors
See full documentation at https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#readme
$ yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=uVQx6Frqfx8
[youtube] uVQx6Frqfx8: Downloading webpage
[youtube] uVQx6Frqfx8: Downloading android player API JSON
[info] uVQx6Frqfx8: Downloading 1 format(s): 22
[download] Destination: 'CARIBBEAN QUEEN' (BILLY OCEAN) cover by HSCC [uVQx6Frqfx8].mp4
[download] 100% of 36.13MiB in 00:02 at 17.15MiB/s