Williamyapdownloadyoutube [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
-i, --ignore-errors Continue on download errors, for example to
skip unavailable videos in a playlist
--abort-on-error Abort downloading of further videos (in the
playlist or the command line) if an error
occurs
--dump-user-agent Display the current browser identification
--list-extractors List all supported extractors
--extractor-descriptions Output descriptions of all supported
extractors
--force-generic-extractor Force extraction to use the generic
extractor
--default-search PREFIX Use this prefix for unqualified URLs. For
example "gvsearch2:" downloads two videos
from google videos for Williamyapdownloadyoutube "large
apple". Use the value "auto" to let
Williamyapdownloadyoutube 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 Do not read configuration files. When given
in the global configuration file
/etc/Williamyapdownloadyoutube.conf: Do not read the user
configuration in ~/.config/youtube-
dl/config (%APPDATA%/Williamyapdownloadyoutube/config.txt
on Windows)
--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-x, --extract-audio Convert video files to audio-only files
(requires ffmpeg or avconv and ffprobe or
avprobe)
--audio-format FORMAT Specify audio format: "best", "aac",
"vorbis", "mp3", "m4a", "opus", or "wav";
"best" by default
--audio-quality QUALITY Specify ffmpeg/avconv audio quality, insert
a value between 0 (better) and 9 (worse)
for VBR or a specific bitrate like 128K
(default 5)
--recode-video FORMAT Encode the video to another format if
necessary (currently supported:
mp4|flv|ogg|webm|mkv|avi)
--postprocessor-args ARGS Give these arguments to the postprocessor
-k, --keep-video Keep the video file on disk after the post-
processing; the video is erased by default
--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 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 /
artist from the video title. The format
syntax is the same as --output, the parsed
parameters replace existing values.
Additional templates: %(album)s,
%(artist)s. Example: --metadata-from-title
"%(artist)s - %(title)s" matches a title
like "Coldplay - Paradise"
--xattrs Write metadata to the video file's xattrs
(using dublin core and xdg standards)
--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)
--prefer-avconv Prefer avconv over ffmpeg for running the
postprocessors (default)
--prefer-ffmpeg Prefer ffmpeg over avconv for running the
postprocessors
--ffmpeg-location PATH Location of the ffmpeg/avconv binary;
either the path to the binary or its
containing directory.
--exec CMD Execute a command on the file after
downloading, similar to find's -exec
syntax. Example: --exec 'adb push {}
/sdcard/Music/ && rm {}'
--convert-subs FORMAT Convert the subtitles to other format
(currently supported: srt|ass|vtt)--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)
-4, --force-ipv4 Make all connections via IPv4
(experimental)
-6, --force-ipv6 Make all connections via IPv6
(experimental)
--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)--playlist-start NUMBER Playlist video to start at (default is 1)
--playlist-end NUMBER Playlist video to end at (default is last)
--playlist-items ITEM_SPEC Playlist video items to download. Specify
indices of the videos in the playlist
separated by commas like: "--playlist-items
1,2,5,8" if you want to download videos
indexed 1, 2, 5, 8 in the playlist. You can
specify range: "--playlist-items
1-3,7,10-13", it will download the videos
at index 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13.
--match-title REGEX Download only matching titles (regex or
caseless sub-string)
--reject-title REGEX Skip download for matching titles (regex or
caseless sub-string)
--max-downloads NUMBER Abort after downloading NUMBER files
--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 in this date
--datebefore DATE Download only videos uploaded on or before
this date (i.e. inclusive)
--dateafter DATE Download only videos uploaded on or after
this date (i.e. inclusive)
--min-views COUNT Do not download any videos with less than
COUNT views
--max-views COUNT Do not download any videos with more than
COUNT views
--match-filter FILTER Generic video filter (experimental).
Specify any key (see help for -o for a list
of available keys) to match if the key is
present, !key to check if the key is not
present,key > NUMBER (like "comment_count >
12", also works with >=, <, <=, !=, =) to
compare against a number, and & to require
multiple matches. Values which are not
known are excluded unless you put a
question mark (?) after the operator.For
example, to only match videos that have
been liked more than 100 times and disliked
less than 50 times (or the dislike
functionality is not available at the given
service), but who also have a description,
use --match-filter "like_count > 100 &
dislike_count <? 50 & description" .
--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.
--include-ads Download advertisements as well
(experimental)-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
size. By default, the buffer size is
automatically resized from an initial value
of SIZE.
--playlist-reverse Download playlist videos in reverse order
--xattr-set-filesize Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with
expected filesize (experimental)
--hls-prefer-native Use the native HLS downloader instead of
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,avconv,axel,curl,ffmpeg,httpie,wget
--external-downloader-args ARGS Give these arguments to the external
downloader-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, 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
is given
--restrict-filenames Restrict filenames to only ASCII
characters, and avoid "&" and spaces in
filenames
-A, --auto-number [deprecated; use -o
"%(autonumber)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s" ] Number
downloaded files starting from 00000
-t, --title [deprecated] Use title in file name
(default)
-l, --literal [deprecated] Alias of --title
-w, --no-overwrites Do not overwrite files
-c, --continue Force resume of partially downloaded files.
By default, Williamyapdownloadyoutube will resume
downloads if possible.
--no-continue Do not resume partially downloaded files
(restart from beginning)
--no-part Do not use .part files - write directly
into output file
--no-mtime Do not use the Last-modified header to set
the file modification time
--write-description Write video description to a .description
file
--write-info-json Write video metadata to a .info.json file
--write-annotations Write video annotations to a
.annotations.xml file
--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 Williamyapdownloadyoutube
can store some downloaded information
permanently. By default
$XDG_CACHE_HOME/Williamyapdownloadyoutube or
~/.cache/Williamyapdownloadyoutube . 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--write-thumbnail Write thumbnail image to disk
--write-all-thumbnails Write all thumbnail image formats to disk
--list-thumbnails Simulate and list all available thumbnail
formats-q, --quiet Activate quiet mode
--no-warnings Ignore warnings
-s, --simulate Do not download the video and do not write
anything to disk
--skip-download Do not download the video
-g, --get-url Simulate, quiet but print URL
-e, --get-title Simulate, quiet but print title
--get-id Simulate, quiet but print id
--get-thumbnail Simulate, quiet but print thumbnail URL
--get-description Simulate, quiet but print video description
--get-duration Simulate, quiet but print video length
--get-filename Simulate, quiet but print output filename
--get-format Simulate, quiet but print output format
-j, --dump-json Simulate, quiet but print JSON information.
See --output for a description of available
keys.
-J, --dump-single-json Simulate, quiet but print JSON information
for each command-line argument. If the URL
refers to a playlist, dump the whole
playlist information in a single line.
--print-json Be quiet and print the video information as
JSON (video is still being downloaded).
--newline Output progress bar as new lines
--no-progress Do not print progress bar
--console-title Display progress in console titlebar
-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
-C, --call-home Contact the Williamyapdownloadyoutube server for debugging
--no-call-home Do NOT contact the Williamyapdownloadyoutube server for
debugging--encoding ENCODING Force the specified encoding (experimental)
--no-check-certificate Suppress HTTPS certificate validation
--prefer-insecure Use an unencrypted connection to retrieve
information about the video. (Currently
supported only for YouTube)
--user-agent UA Specify a custom user agent
--referer URL Specify a custom referer, use if the video
access is restricted to one domain
--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-interval SECONDS Number of seconds to sleep before each
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.-f, --format FORMAT Video format code, see the "FORMAT
SELECTION" for all the info
--all-formats Download all available video formats
--prefer-free-formats Prefer free video formats unless a specific
one is requested
-F, --list-formats List all available formats of requested
videos
--youtube-skip-dash-manifest Do not download the DASH manifests and
related data on YouTube videos
--merge-output-format FORMAT If a merge is required (e.g.
bestvideo+bestaudio), output to given
container format. One of mkv, mp4, ogg,
webm, flv. Ignored if no merge is required--write-sub Write subtitle file
--write-auto-sub Write automatically generated subtitle file
(YouTube only)
--all-subs Download all the available subtitles of the
video
--list-subs List all available subtitles for the video
--sub-format FORMAT Subtitle format, accepts formats
preference, for example: "srt" or
"ass/srt/best"
--sub-lang LANGS Languages of the subtitles to download
(optional) separated by commas, use --list-
subs for available language tags-u, --username USERNAME Login with this account ID
-p, --password PASSWORD Account password. If this option is left
out, Williamyapdownloadyoutube will ask interactively.
-2, --twofactor TWOFACTOR Two-factor auth code
-n, --netrc Use .netrc authentication data
--video-password PASSWORD Video password (vimeo, smotri, 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, Williamyapdownloadyoutube will
ask interactively.
--ap-list-mso List all supported multiple-system
operators-x, --extract-audio Convert video files to audio-only files
(requires ffmpeg or avconv and ffprobe or
avprobe)
--audio-format FORMAT Specify audio format: "best", "aac",
"vorbis", "mp3", "m4a", "opus", or "wav";
"best" by default
--audio-quality QUALITY Specify ffmpeg/avconv audio quality, insert
a value between 0 (better) and 9 (worse)
for VBR or a specific bitrate like 128K
(default 5)
--recode-video FORMAT Encode the video to another format if
necessary (currently supported:
mp4|flv|ogg|webm|mkv|avi)
--postprocessor-args ARGS Give these arguments to the postprocessor
-k, --keep-video Keep the video file on disk after the post-
processing; the video is erased by default
--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 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 /
artist from the video title. The format
syntax is the same as --output, the parsed
parameters replace existing values.
Additional templates: %(album)s,
%(artist)s. Example: --metadata-from-title
"%(artist)s - %(title)s" matches a title
like "Coldplay - Paradise"
--xattrs Write metadata to the video file's xattrs
(using dublin core and xdg standards)
--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)
--prefer-avconv Prefer avconv over ffmpeg for running the
postprocessors (default)
--prefer-ffmpeg Prefer ffmpeg over avconv for running the
postprocessors
--ffmpeg-location PATH Location of the ffmpeg/avconv binary;
either the path to the binary or its
containing directory.
--exec CMD Execute a command on the file after
downloading, similar to find's -exec
syntax. Example: --exec 'adb push {}
/sdcard/Music/ && rm {}'
--convert-subs FORMAT Convert the subtitles to other format
(currently supported: srt|ass|vtt)
The -o option
allows users to indicate a template for the output file names.
tl;dr: navigate me to examples.
The basic usage is not to set any template arguments when downloading a
single file, like in Williamyapdownloadyoutube
-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 titleAvailable 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 toAvailable 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 episodeAvailable 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
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".
Note on Windows you may need to use double quotes instead of single.
$ Williamyapdownloadyoutube --get-filename -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' BaW_jenozKc
Williamyapdownloadyoutube test video ''_รค↭𝕐.mp4 # All kinds of weird characters
$ Williamyapdownloadyoutube --get-filename -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' BaW_jenozKc --restrict-filenames
Williamyapdownloadyoutube_test_video_.mp4 # A simple file name
# Download YouTube playlist videos in separate directory indexed by video order in a playlist
$ Williamyapdownloadyoutube -o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re
# Download all playlists of YouTube channel/user keeping each playlist in separate directory:
$ Williamyapdownloadyoutube -o '%(uploader)s/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLinuxFoundation/playlists
# Download Udemy course keeping each chapter in separate directory under MyVideos directory in your home
$ Williamyapdownloadyoutube -u user -p password -o '~/MyVideos/%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.udemy.com/java-tutorial/
# Download entire series season keeping each series and each season in separate directory under C:/MyVideos
$ Williamyapdownloadyoutube -o "C:/MyVideos/%(series)s/%(season_number)s - %(season)s/%(episode_number)s - %(episode)s.%(ext)s" http://videomore.ru/kino_v_detalayah/5_sezon/367617
# Stream the video being downloaded to stdout
$ Williamyapdownloadyoutube -o - BaW_jenozKc
By default Williamyapdownloadyoutube tries to download the best available quality, i.e. if you want the best quality you don't need to pass any special options, Williamyapdownloadyoutube will guess it for you by default.
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.
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.
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, m3u8,
or m3u8_native
format_id: A short description of the formatNote 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, Williamyapdownloadyoutube uses -f
bestvideo+bestaudio/best as
the default format selection (see #5447, #5456).
If ffmpeg or avconv are installed this results in downloading bestvideo and bestaudioseparately
and muxing them together into a single file giving the best overall quality
available. Otherwise it falls back to bestand
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 Williamyapdownloadyoutube to stream to stdout(and
most likely to pipe it to your media player then), i.e. you explicitly
specify output template as -o
-, Williamyapdownloadyoutube 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
Williamyapdownloadyoutube 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 in order not to type it
every time you run Williamyapdownloadyoutube.
Note on Windows you may need to use double quotes instead of single.
# Download best mp4 format available or any other best if no mp4 available
$ Williamyapdownloadyoutube -f 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best'
# Download best format available but not better that 480p
$ Williamyapdownloadyoutube -f 'bestvideo[height<=480]+bestaudio/best[height<=480]'
# Download best video only format but no bigger that 50 MB
$ Williamyapdownloadyoutube -f 'best[filesize<50M]'
# Download best format available via direct link over HTTP/HTTPS protocol
$ Williamyapdownloadyoutube -f '(bestvideo+bestaudio/best)[protocol^=http]'
# Download the best video format and the best audio format without merging them
$ Williamyapdownloadyoutube -f 'bestvideo,bestaudio' -o '%(title)s.f%(format_id)s.%(ext)s'
Note that in the last example, an output template is recommended as bestvideo and bestaudio may have the same file name.
Videos can be filtered by their upload date using the options --date, --datebefore or --dateafter.
They accept dates in two formats:
YYYYMMDD.(now|today)[+-][0-9](day|week|month|year)(s)?Examples:
# Download only the videos uploaded in the last 6 months
$ Williamyapdownloadyoutube --dateafter now-6months
# Download only the videos uploaded on January 1, 1970
$ Williamyapdownloadyoutube --date 19700101
$ # Download only the videos uploaded in the 200x decade
$ Williamyapdownloadyoutube --dateafter 20000101 --datebefore 20091231