OPTIONS

-h, --help -v, --version -U, --update -i, --ignore-errors -r, --rate-limit LIMIT -R, --retries RETRIES --dump-user-agent --list-extractors print this help text and exit print program version and exit update this program to latest versin continue on download errors download rate limit (e.g. 50k or 44.6m) number of retries (default is 10) display the current browser identification List all supported extractors and the URLs they would handle

Video Selection:
--playlist-start NUMBER --playlist-end NUMBER --match-title REGEX --reject-title REGEX playlist video to start at (default is 1) playlist video to end at (default is last) download only matching titles (regex or caseless sub-string) skip download for matching titles (regex or caseless sub-string)

Filesystem Options:
-t, -l, -A, -o, --title --literal --auto-number --output TEMPLATE use title in file name use literal title in file name number downloaded files starting from 00000 output filename template. Use %(stitle)s to get the title, %(uploader)s for the uploader name, %(autonumber)s to get an automatically incremented number, %(ext)s for the filename extension, and %% for a literal percent file containing URLs to download ('-' for stdin) do not overwrite files resume partially downloaded files do not resume partially downloaded files (restart from beginning) file to read cookies from and dump cookie jar in do not use .part files do not use the Last-modified header to set the file modification time write video description to a .description file write video metadata to a .info.json file

-a, --batch-file FILE -w, --no-overwrites -c, --continue --no-continue --cookies FILE --no-part --no-mtime --write-description --write-info-json

Verbosity / Simulation Options:

-q, --quiet -s, --simulate --skip-download -g, --get-url -e, --get-title --get-thumbnail --get-description --get-filename --get-format --no-progress --console-title activates quiet mode do not download the video and do not write anything to disk do not download the video simulate, quiet but print URL simulate, quiet but print title simulate, quiet but print thumbnail URL simulate, quiet but print video description simulate, quiet but print output filename simulate, quiet but print output format do not print progress bar display progress in console titlebar

Video Format Options:

-f, --format FORMAT --all-formats --max-quality FORMAT -F, --list-formats video format code download all available video formats highest quality format to download list all available formats (currently youtube only)

Authentication Options:
-u, --username USERNAME -p, --password PASSWORD -n, --netrc account username account password use .netrc authentication data

Post-processing Options:
--extract-audio --audio-format FORMAT --audio-quality QUALITY -k, --keep-video convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg and ffprobe) "best", "aac", "vorbis" or "mp3"; best by default ffmpeg audio bitrate specification, 128k by default keeps the video file on disk after the postprocessing; the video is erased by default