From 0f21dfa943e1b9985912dfe4e2f3f514cfefc09d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dimitris Zlatanidis Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 15:17:16 +0300 Subject: network/youtube-dl: Updated for version 2016.06.03. Signed-off-by: Dimitris Zlatanidis --- network/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.1 | 534 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------ network/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.SlackBuild | 2 +- network/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.info | 6 +- 3 files changed, 447 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-) diff --git a/network/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.1 b/network/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.1 index 853a8dda3e..2b5c7d90a8 100644 --- a/network/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.1 +++ b/network/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.1 @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ if this is not possible instead of searching. .TP .B \-\-ignore\-config Do not read configuration files. -When given in the global configuration file /etc /youtube\-dl.conf: Do +When given 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) .RS @@ -89,6 +89,16 @@ Do not extract the videos of a playlist, only list them. .RS .RE .TP +.B \-\-mark\-watched +Mark videos watched (YouTube only) +.RS +.RE +.TP +.B \-\-no\-mark\-watched +Do not mark videos watched (YouTube only) +.RS +.RE +.TP .B \-\-no\-color Do not emit color codes in output .RS @@ -96,7 +106,9 @@ Do not emit color codes in output .SS Network Options: .TP .B \-\-proxy \f[I]URL\f[] -Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS proxy. +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 .RS .RE @@ -247,7 +259,7 @@ Download advertisements as well (experimental) .RE .SS Download Options: .TP -.B \-r, \-\-rate\-limit \f[I]LIMIT\f[] +.B \-r, \-\-limit\-rate \f[I]RATE\f[] Maximum download rate in bytes per second (e.g. 50K or 4.2M) .RS @@ -258,6 +270,12 @@ Number of retries (default is 10), or "infinite". .RS .RE .TP +.B \-\-fragment\-retries \f[I]RETRIES\f[] +Number of retries for a fragment (default is 10), or "infinite" (DASH +only) +.RS +.RE +.TP .B \-\-buffer\-size \f[I]SIZE\f[] Size of download buffer (e.g. 1024 or 16K) (default is 1024) @@ -282,13 +300,24 @@ Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with expected filesize (experimental) .RE .TP .B \-\-hls\-prefer\-native -Use the native HLS downloader instead of ffmpeg (experimental) +Use the native HLS downloader instead of ffmpeg +.RS +.RE +.TP +.B \-\-hls\-prefer\-ffmpeg +Use ffmpeg instead of the native HLS downloader +.RS +.RE +.TP +.B \-\-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) .RS .RE .TP .B \-\-external\-downloader \f[I]COMMAND\f[] Use the specified external downloader. -Currently supports aria2c,axel,curl,httpie,wget +Currently supports aria2c,avconv,axel,curl,ffmpeg,httpie,wget .RS .RE .TP @@ -413,7 +442,7 @@ File to read cookies from and dump cookie jar in .B \-\-cache\-dir \f[I]DIR\f[] Location in the filesystem where youtube\-dl can store some downloaded information permanently. -By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME /youtube\-dl or ~/.cache/youtube\-dl . +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. .RS @@ -636,7 +665,7 @@ Prefer free video formats unless a specific one is requested .RE .TP .B \-F, \-\-list\-formats -List all available formats +List all available formats of requested videos .RS .RE .TP @@ -660,7 +689,7 @@ Write subtitle file .RE .TP .B \-\-write\-auto\-sub -Write automatic subtitle file (YouTube only) +Write automatically generated subtitle file (YouTube only) .RS .RE .TP @@ -682,7 +711,7 @@ Subtitle format, accepts formats preference, for example: "srt" or .TP .B \-\-sub\-lang \f[I]LANGS\f[] Languages of the subtitles to download (optional) separated by commas, -use IETF language tags like \[aq]en,pt\[aq] +use \-\-list\- subs for available language tags .RS .RE .SS Authentication Options: @@ -756,7 +785,7 @@ overwritten by default .RE .TP .B \-\-embed\-subs -Embed subtitles in the video (only for mkv and mp4 videos) +Embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4, webm and mkv videos) .RS .RE .TP @@ -816,7 +845,7 @@ Example: \-\-exec \[aq]adb push {} /sdcard/Music/ && rm {}\[aq] .RS .RE .TP -.B \-\-convert\-subtitles \f[I]FORMAT\f[] +.B \-\-convert\-subs \f[I]FORMAT\f[] Convert the subtitles to other format (currently supported: srt|ass|vtt) .RS .RE @@ -824,23 +853,32 @@ Convert the subtitles to other format (currently supported: srt|ass|vtt) .PP 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 +On Linux and OS X, the system wide configuration file is located at \f[C]/etc/youtube\-dl.conf\f[] and the user wide configuration file at \f[C]~/.config/youtube\-dl/config\f[]. On Windows, the user wide configuration file locations are \f[C]%APPDATA%\\youtube\-dl\\config.txt\f[] or \f[C]C:\\Users\\\\youtube\-dl.conf\f[]. +.PP For example, with the following configuration file youtube\-dl will -always extract the audio, not copy the mtime and use a proxy: +always extract the audio, not copy the mtime, use a proxy and save all +videos under \f[C]Movies\f[] directory in your home directory: .IP .nf \f[C] -\-\-extract\-audio +\-x \-\-no\-mtime \-\-proxy\ 127.0.0.1:3128 +\-o\ ~/Movies/%(title)s.%(ext)s \f[] .fi .PP +Note that options in configuration file are just the same options aka +switches used in regular command line calls thus there \f[B]must be no +whitespace\f[] after \f[C]\-\f[] or \f[C]\-\-\f[], e.g. +\f[C]\-o\f[] or \f[C]\-\-proxy\f[] but not \f[C]\-\ o\f[] or +\f[C]\-\-\ proxy\f[]. +.PP You can use \f[C]\-\-ignore\-config\f[] if you want to disable the configuration file for a particular youtube\-dl run. .SS Authentication with \f[C]\&.netrc\f[] file @@ -853,7 +891,7 @@ execution and prevent tracking plain text passwords in the shell command history. You can achieve this using a \f[C]\&.netrc\f[] file (http://stackoverflow.com/tags/.netrc/info) on per extractor basis. -For that you will need to create a\f[C]\&.netrc\f[] file in your +For that you will need to create a \f[C]\&.netrc\f[] file in your \f[C]$HOME\f[] and restrict permissions to read/write by you only: .IP .nf @@ -891,6 +929,9 @@ variable manually. .PP The \f[C]\-o\f[] option allows users to indicate a template for the output file names. +.PP +\f[B]tl;dr:\f[] navigate me to examples (#output-template-examples). +.PP The basic usage is not to set any template arguments when downloading a single file, like in \f[C]youtube\-dl\ \-o\ funny_video.flv\ "http://some/video"\f[]. @@ -901,39 +942,147 @@ To clarify, that is a percent symbol followed by a name in parentheses, followed by a lowercase S. Allowed names are: .IP \[bu] 2 -\f[C]id\f[]: The sequence will be replaced by the video identifier. +\f[C]id\f[]: Video identifier +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]title\f[]: Video title +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]url\f[]: Video URL +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]ext\f[]: Video filename extension +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]alt_title\f[]: A secondary title of the video +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]display_id\f[]: An alternative identifier for the video +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]uploader\f[]: Full name of the video uploader +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]license\f[]: License name the video is licensed under +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]creator\f[]: The creator of the video +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]release_date\f[]: The date (YYYYMMDD) when the video was released +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]timestamp\f[]: UNIX timestamp of the moment the video became +available +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]upload_date\f[]: Video upload date (YYYYMMDD) +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]uploader_id\f[]: Nickname or id of the video uploader +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]location\f[]: Physical location where the video was filmed +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]duration\f[]: Length of the video in seconds +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]view_count\f[]: How many users have watched the video on the +platform +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]like_count\f[]: Number of positive ratings of the video +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]dislike_count\f[]: Number of negative ratings of the video +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]repost_count\f[]: Number of reposts of the video +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]average_rating\f[]: Average rating give by users, the scale used +depends on the webpage +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]comment_count\f[]: Number of comments on the video +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]age_limit\f[]: Age restriction for the video (years) +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]format\f[]: A human\-readable description of the format +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]format_id\f[]: Format code specified by \f[C]\-\-format\f[] +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]format_note\f[]: Additional info about the format .IP \[bu] 2 -\f[C]url\f[]: The sequence will be replaced by the video URL. +\f[C]width\f[]: Width of the video .IP \[bu] 2 -\f[C]uploader\f[]: The sequence will be replaced by the nickname of the -person who uploaded the video. +\f[C]height\f[]: Height of the video .IP \[bu] 2 -\f[C]upload_date\f[]: The sequence will be replaced by the upload date -in YYYYMMDD format. +\f[C]resolution\f[]: Textual description of width and height .IP \[bu] 2 -\f[C]title\f[]: The sequence will be replaced by the video title. +\f[C]tbr\f[]: Average bitrate of audio and video in KBit/s .IP \[bu] 2 -\f[C]ext\f[]: The sequence will be replaced by the appropriate extension -(like flv or mp4). +\f[C]abr\f[]: Average audio bitrate in KBit/s .IP \[bu] 2 -\f[C]epoch\f[]: The sequence will be replaced by the Unix epoch when -creating the file. +\f[C]acodec\f[]: Name of the audio codec in use .IP \[bu] 2 -\f[C]autonumber\f[]: The sequence will be replaced by a five\-digit -number that will be increased with each download, starting at zero. +\f[C]asr\f[]: Audio sampling rate in Hertz .IP \[bu] 2 -\f[C]playlist\f[]: The sequence will be replaced by the name or the id -of the playlist that contains the video. +\f[C]vbr\f[]: Average video bitrate in KBit/s .IP \[bu] 2 -\f[C]playlist_index\f[]: 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. +\f[C]fps\f[]: Frame rate .IP \[bu] 2 -\f[C]format_id\f[]: The sequence will be replaced by the format code -specified by \f[C]\-\-format\f[]. +\f[C]vcodec\f[]: Name of the video codec in use .IP \[bu] 2 -\f[C]duration\f[]: The sequence will be replaced by the length of the -video in seconds. +\f[C]container\f[]: Name of the container format +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]filesize\f[]: The number of bytes, if known in advance +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]filesize_approx\f[]: An estimate for the number of bytes +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]protocol\f[]: The protocol that will be used for the actual +download +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]extractor\f[]: Name of the extractor +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]extractor_key\f[]: Key name of the extractor +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]epoch\f[]: Unix epoch when creating the file +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]autonumber\f[]: Five\-digit number that will be increased with each +download, starting at zero +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]playlist\f[]: Name or id of the playlist that contains the video +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]playlist_index\f[]: Index of the video in the playlist padded with +leading zeros according to the total length of the playlist +.PP +Available for the video that belongs to some logical chapter or section: +\- \f[C]chapter\f[]: Name or title of the chapter the video belongs to +\- \f[C]chapter_number\f[]: Number of the chapter the video belongs to +\- \f[C]chapter_id\f[]: Id of the chapter the video belongs to +.PP +Available for the video that is an episode of some series or programme: +\- \f[C]series\f[]: Title of the series or programme the video episode +belongs to \- \f[C]season\f[]: Title of the season the video episode +belongs to \- \f[C]season_number\f[]: Number of the season the video +episode belongs to \- \f[C]season_id\f[]: Id of the season the video +episode belongs to \- \f[C]episode\f[]: Title of the video episode \- +\f[C]episode_number\f[]: Number of the video episode within a season \- +\f[C]episode_id\f[]: Id of the video episode +.PP +Available for the media that is a track or a part of a music album: \- +\f[C]track\f[]: Title of the track \- \f[C]track_number\f[]: Number of +the track within an album or a disc \- \f[C]track_id\f[]: Id of the +track \- \f[C]artist\f[]: Artist(s) of the track \- \f[C]genre\f[]: +Genre(s) of the track \- \f[C]album\f[]: Title of the album the track +belongs to \- \f[C]album_type\f[]: Type of the album \- +\f[C]album_artist\f[]: List of all artists appeared on the album \- +\f[C]disc_number\f[]: Number of the disc or other physical medium the +track belongs to \- \f[C]release_year\f[]: Year (YYYY) when the album +was released +.PP +Each aforementioned sequence when referenced in 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 particular extractor, such +sequences will be replaced with \f[C]NA\f[]. +.PP +For example for \f[C]\-o\ %(title)s\-%(id)s.%(ext)s\f[] and mp4 video +with title \f[C]youtube\-dl\ test\ video\f[] and id +\f[C]BaW_jenozKcj\f[] this will result in a +\f[C]youtube\-dl\ test\ video\-BaW_jenozKcj.mp4\f[] file created in the +current directory. +.PP +Output template can also contain arbitrary hierarchical path, e.g. +\f[C]\-o\ \[aq]%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s\ \-\ %(title)s.%(ext)s\[aq]\f[] +that will result in downloading each video in a directory corresponding +to this path template. +Any missing directory will be automatically created for you. +.PP +To specify percent literal in output template use \f[C]%%\f[]. +To output to stdout use \f[C]\-o\ \-\f[]. .PP The current default template is \f[C]%(title)s\-%(id)s.%(ext)s\f[]. .PP @@ -942,54 +1091,151 @@ 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 \f[C]\-\-restrict\-filenames\f[] flag to get a shorter title: +.SS Output template examples +.PP +Note on Windows you may need to use double quotes instead of single. .IP .nf \f[C] -$\ youtube\-dl\ \-\-get\-filename\ \-o\ "%(title)s.%(ext)s"\ BaW_jenozKc +$\ youtube\-dl\ \-\-get\-filename\ \-o\ \[aq]%(title)s.%(ext)s\[aq]\ BaW_jenozKc youtube\-dl\ test\ video\ \[aq]\[aq]_ä↭𝕐.mp4\ \ \ \ #\ All\ kinds\ of\ weird\ characters -$\ youtube\-dl\ \-\-get\-filename\ \-o\ "%(title)s.%(ext)s"\ BaW_jenozKc\ \-\-restrict\-filenames + +$\ youtube\-dl\ \-\-get\-filename\ \-o\ \[aq]%(title)s.%(ext)s\[aq]\ BaW_jenozKc\ \-\-restrict\-filenames youtube\-dl_test_video_.mp4\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ #\ A\ simple\ file\ name + +#\ Download\ YouTube\ playlist\ videos\ in\ separate\ directory\ indexed\ by\ video\ order\ in\ a\ playlist +$\ youtube\-dl\ \-o\ \[aq]%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s\ \-\ %(title)s.%(ext)s\[aq]\ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re + +#\ Download\ all\ playlists\ of\ YouTube\ channel/user\ keeping\ each\ playlist\ in\ separate\ directory: +$\ youtube\-dl\ \-o\ \[aq]%(uploader)s/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s\ \-\ %(title)s.%(ext)s\[aq]\ https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLinuxFoundation/playlists + +#\ Download\ Udemy\ course\ keeping\ each\ chapter\ in\ separate\ directory\ under\ MyVideos\ directory\ in\ your\ home +$\ youtube\-dl\ \-u\ user\ \-p\ password\ \-o\ \[aq]~/MyVideos/%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s\ \-\ %(chapter)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s\[aq]\ https://www.udemy.com/java\-tutorial/ + +#\ Download\ entire\ series\ season\ keeping\ each\ series\ and\ each\ season\ in\ separate\ directory\ under\ C:/MyVideos +$\ youtube\-dl\ \-o\ "C:/MyVideos/%(series)s/%(season_number)s\ \-\ %(season)s/%(episode_number)s\ \-\ %(episode)s.%(ext)s"\ http://videomore.ru/kino_v_detalayah/5_sezon/367617 + +#\ Stream\ the\ video\ being\ downloaded\ to\ stdout +$\ youtube\-dl\ \-o\ \-\ BaW_jenozKc \f[] .fi .SH FORMAT SELECTION .PP -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[C]\-f\ 22\f[]. -You can get the list of available formats using -\f[C]\-\-list\-formats\f[], you can also use a file extension (currently -it supports aac, m4a, mp3, mp4, ogg, wav, webm) or the special names -\f[C]best\f[], \f[C]bestvideo\f[], \f[C]bestaudio\f[] and -\f[C]worst\f[]. +By default youtube\-dl tries to download the best available quality, +i.e. +if you want the best quality you \f[B]don\[aq]t need\f[] to pass any +special options, youtube\-dl will guess it for you by \f[B]default\f[]. +.PP +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 \f[I]format +selection\f[] based on which you can explicitly specify desired format, +select formats based on some criterion or criteria, setup precedence and +much more. +.PP +The general syntax for format selection is \f[C]\-\-format\ FORMAT\f[] +or shorter \f[C]\-f\ FORMAT\f[] where \f[C]FORMAT\f[] is a \f[I]selector +expression\f[], i.e. +an expression that describes format or formats you would like to +download. +.PP +\f[B]tl;dr:\f[] navigate me to examples (#format-selection-examples). +.PP +The simplest case is requesting a specific format, for example with +\f[C]\-f\ 22\f[] you can download the format with format code equal to +22. +You can get the list of available format codes for particular video +using \f[C]\-\-list\-formats\f[] or \f[C]\-F\f[]. +Note that these format codes are extractor specific. +.PP +You can also use a file extension (currently \f[C]3gp\f[], \f[C]aac\f[], +\f[C]flv\f[], \f[C]m4a\f[], \f[C]mp3\f[], \f[C]mp4\f[], \f[C]ogg\f[], +\f[C]wav\f[], \f[C]webm\f[] are supported) to download best quality +format of particular file extension served as a single file, e.g. +\f[C]\-f\ webm\f[] will download best quality format with \f[C]webm\f[] +extension served as a single file. +.PP +You can also use special names to select particular edge case format: \- +\f[C]best\f[]: Select best quality format represented by single file +with video and audio \- \f[C]worst\f[]: Select worst quality format +represented by single file with video and audio \- \f[C]bestvideo\f[]: +Select best quality video only format (e.g. +DASH video), may not be available \- \f[C]worstvideo\f[]: Select worst +quality video only format, may not be available \- \f[C]bestaudio\f[]: +Select best quality audio only format, may not be available \- +\f[C]worstaudio\f[]: Select worst quality audio only format, may not be +available +.PP +For example, to download worst quality video only format you can use +\f[C]\-f\ worstvideo\f[]. .PP If you want to download multiple videos and they don\[aq]t have the same formats available, you can specify the order of preference using -slashes, as in \f[C]\-f\ 22/17/18\f[]. -You can also filter the video results by putting a condition in +slashes. +Note that slash is left\-associative, i.e. +formats on the left hand side are preferred, for example +\f[C]\-f\ 22/17/18\f[] will download format 22 if it\[aq]s available, +otherwise it will download format 17 if it\[aq]s available, otherwise it +will download format 18 if it\[aq]s available, otherwise it will +complain that no suitable formats are available for download. +.PP +If you want to download several formats of the same video use comma as a +separator, e.g. +\f[C]\-f\ 22,17,18\f[] will download all these three formats, of course +if they are available. +Or more sophisticated example combined with precedence feature +\f[C]\-f\ 136/137/mp4/bestvideo,140/m4a/bestaudio\f[]. +.PP +You can also filter the video formats by putting a condition in brackets, as in \f[C]\-f\ "best[height=720]"\f[] (or \f[C]\-f\ "[filesize>10M]"\f[]). -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 =, != . +.PP +The following numeric meta fields can be used with comparisons +\f[C]<\f[], \f[C]<=\f[], \f[C]>\f[], \f[C]>=\f[], \f[C]=\f[] (equals), +\f[C]!=\f[] (not equals): \- \f[C]filesize\f[]: The number of bytes, if +known in advance \- \f[C]width\f[]: Width of the video, if known \- +\f[C]height\f[]: Height of the video, if known \- \f[C]tbr\f[]: Average +bitrate of audio and video in KBit/s \- \f[C]abr\f[]: Average audio +bitrate in KBit/s \- \f[C]vbr\f[]: Average video bitrate in KBit/s \- +\f[C]asr\f[]: Audio sampling rate in Hertz \- \f[C]fps\f[]: Frame rate +.PP +Also filtering work for comparisons \f[C]=\f[] (equals), \f[C]!=\f[] +(not equals), \f[C]^=\f[] (begins with), \f[C]$=\f[] (ends with), +\f[C]*=\f[] (contains) and following string meta fields: \- +\f[C]ext\f[]: File extension \- \f[C]acodec\f[]: Name of the audio codec +in use \- \f[C]vcodec\f[]: Name of the video codec in use \- +\f[C]container\f[]: Name of the container format \- \f[C]protocol\f[]: +The protocol that will be used for the actual download, lower\-case. +\f[C]http\f[], \f[C]https\f[], \f[C]rtsp\f[], \f[C]rtmp\f[], +\f[C]rtmpe\f[], \f[C]m3u8\f[], or \f[C]m3u8_native\f[] \- +\f[C]format_id\f[]: A short description of the format +.PP +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 video hoster. +.PP Formats for which the value is not known are excluded unless you put a -question mark (?) after the operator. +question mark (\f[C]?\f[]) after the operator. You can combine format filters, so \f[C]\-f\ "[height\ <=?\ 720][tbr>500]"\f[] 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[C]\-f\ 136/137/mp4/bestvideo,140/m4a/bestaudio\f[]. +.PP You can merge the video and audio of two formats into a single file using \f[C]\-f\ +\f[] (requires ffmpeg or -avconv), for example \f[C]\-f\ bestvideo+bestaudio\f[]. +avconv installed), for example \f[C]\-f\ bestvideo+bestaudio\f[] will +download best video only format, best audio only format and mux them +together with ffmpeg/avconv. +.PP 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[C]\-f\ \[aq](mp4,webm)[height<480]\[aq]\f[]. .PP Since the end of April 2015 and version 2015.04.26 youtube\-dl uses \f[C]\-f\ bestvideo+bestaudio/best\f[] as default format selection (see -#5447, #5456). +#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 \f[C]bestvideo\f[] and \f[C]bestaudio\f[] separately and muxing them together into a single file giving the best overall quality available. @@ -998,7 +1244,7 @@ best available quality served as a single file. \f[C]best\f[] is also needed for videos that don\[aq]t come from YouTube because they don\[aq]t provide the audio and video in two different files. -If you want to only download some dash formats (for example if you are +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[C]\-f\ bestvideo[height<=?1080]+bestaudio/best\f[] to your configuration file. @@ -1015,6 +1261,25 @@ you want to download the best available quality media served as a single file, you should explicitly specify your choice with \f[C]\-f\ best\f[]. You may want to add it to the configuration file (#configuration) in order not to type it every time you run youtube\-dl. +.SS Format selection examples +.PP +Note on Windows you may need to use double quotes instead of single. +.IP +.nf +\f[C] +#\ Download\ best\ mp4\ format\ available\ or\ any\ other\ best\ if\ no\ mp4\ available +$\ youtube\-dl\ \-f\ \[aq]bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best\[aq] + +#\ Download\ best\ format\ available\ but\ not\ better\ that\ 480p +$\ youtube\-dl\ \-f\ \[aq]bestvideo[height<=480]+bestaudio/best[height<=480]\[aq] + +#\ Download\ best\ video\ only\ format\ but\ no\ bigger\ that\ 50\ MB +$\ youtube\-dl\ \-f\ \[aq]best[filesize<50M]\[aq] + +#\ Download\ best\ format\ available\ via\ direct\ link\ over\ HTTP/HTTPS\ protocol +$\ youtube\-dl\ \-f\ \[aq](bestvideo+bestaudio/best)[protocol^=http]\[aq] +\f[] +.fi .SH VIDEO SELECTION .PP Videos can be filtered by their upload date using the options @@ -1086,6 +1351,10 @@ hash\ \-r .PP Again, from then on you\[aq]ll be able to update with \f[C]sudo\ youtube\-dl\ \-U\f[]. +.SS youtube\-dl is extremely slow to start on Windows +.PP +Add a file exclusion for \f[C]youtube\-dl.exe\f[] in Windows Defender +settings. .SS I\[aq]m getting an error \f[C]Unable\ to\ extract\ OpenGraph\ title\f[] on YouTube playlists .PP @@ -1104,6 +1373,14 @@ guys (mailto:ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com?subject=outdated%20version%20of%20yout \- all they have to do is update the package to a somewhat recent version. See above for a way to update. +.SS I\[aq]m getting an error when trying to use output template: +\f[C]error:\ using\ output\ template\ conflicts\ with\ using\ title,\ video\ ID\ or\ auto\ number\f[] +.PP +Make sure you are not using \f[C]\-o\f[] with any of these options +\f[C]\-t\f[], \f[C]\-\-title\f[], \f[C]\-\-id\f[], \f[C]\-A\f[] or +\f[C]\-\-auto\-number\f[] set in command line or in a configuration +file. +Remove the latter if any. .SS Do I always have to pass \f[C]\-citw\f[]? .PP By default, youtube\-dl intends to have the best options (incidentally, @@ -1132,10 +1409,25 @@ We\[aq]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. +.SS Do I need any other programs? +.PP +youtube\-dl works fine on its own on most sites. +However, if you want to convert video/audio, you\[aq]ll need +avconv (https://libav.org/) or ffmpeg (https://www.ffmpeg.org/). +On some sites \- most notably YouTube \- videos can be retrieved in a +higher quality format without sound. +youtube\-dl will detect whether avconv/ffmpeg is present and +automatically pick the best option. +.PP +Videos or video formats streamed via RTMP protocol can only be +downloaded when rtmpdump (https://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/) is installed. +Downloading MMS and RTSP videos requires either +mplayer (http://mplayerhq.hu/) or mpv (https://mpv.io/) to be installed. .SS I have downloaded a video but how can I play it? .PP Once the video is fully downloaded, use any video player, such as -vlc (http://www.videolan.org) or mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/). +mpv (https://mpv.io/), vlc (http://www.videolan.org) or +mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/). .SS I extracted a video URL with \f[C]\-g\f[], but it does not play on another machine / in my webbrowser. .PP @@ -1228,17 +1520,18 @@ means you\[aq]re using an outdated version of Python. Please update to Python 2.6 or 2.7. .SS What is this binary file? Where has the code gone? .PP -Since June 2012 (#342) youtube\-dl is packed as an executable zipfile, -simply unzip it (might need renaming to \f[C]youtube\-dl.zip\f[] first -on some systems) or clone the git repository, as laid out above. +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 \f[C]youtube\-dl.zip\f[] 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 \f[C]__main__.py\f[] file. To recompile the executable, run \f[C]make\ youtube\-dl\f[]. -.SS The exe throws a \f[I]Runtime error from Visual C++\f[] +.SS The exe throws an error due to missing \f[C]MSVCR100.dll\f[] .PP -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). .SS On Windows, how should I set up ffmpeg and youtube\-dl? Where should I put the exe files? .PP @@ -1263,7 +1556,7 @@ Use the \f[C]\-o\f[] to specify an output template (#output-template), for example \f[C]\-o\ "/home/user/videos/%(title)s\-%(id)s.%(ext)s"\f[]. If you want this for all of your downloads, put the option into your configuration file (#configuration). -.SS How do I download a video starting with a \f[C]\-\f[] ? +.SS How do I download a video starting with a \f[C]\-\f[]? .PP Either prepend \f[C]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\f[] or separate the ID from the options with \f[C]\-\-\f[]: @@ -1292,6 +1585,10 @@ is a good sign of invalid newline format. .PP 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). .SS Can you add support for this anime video site, or site which shows current movies for free? .PP @@ -1404,7 +1701,7 @@ If you want to create a build of youtube\-dl yourself, you\[aq]ll need .IP \[bu] 2 python .IP \[bu] 2 -make +make (both GNU make and BSD make are supported) .IP \[bu] 2 pandoc .IP \[bu] 2 @@ -1413,8 +1710,15 @@ zip nosetests .SS Adding support for a new site .PP -If you want to add support for a new site, you can follow this quick -list (assuming your service is called \f[C]yourextractor\f[]): +If you want to add support for a new site, first of all \f[B]make +sure\f[] this site is \f[B]not dedicated to copyright +infringement (#can-you-add-support-for-this-anime-video-site-or-site-which-shows-current-movies-for-free)\f[]. +youtube\-dl does \f[B]not support\f[] such sites thus pull requests +adding support for them \f[B]will be rejected\f[]. +.PP +After you have ensured this site is distributing it\[aq]s content +legally, you can follow this quick list (assuming your service is called +\f[C]yourextractor\f[]): .IP " 1." 4 Fork this repository (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/fork) .IP " 2." 4 @@ -1459,12 +1763,13 @@ class\ YourExtractorIE(InfoExtractor): \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ webpage\ =\ self._download_webpage(url,\ video_id) \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ #\ TODO\ more\ code\ goes\ here,\ for\ example\ ... -\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ title\ =\ self._html_search_regex(r\[aq]

(.*?)

\[aq],\ webpage,\ \[aq]title\[aq]) +\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ title\ =\ self._html_search_regex(r\[aq]

(.+?)

\[aq],\ webpage,\ \[aq]title\[aq]) \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ return\ { \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[aq]id\[aq]:\ video_id, \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[aq]title\[aq]:\ title, \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[aq]description\[aq]:\ self._og_search_description(webpage), +\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[aq]uploader\[aq]:\ self._search_regex(r\[aq]]+id="uploader"[^>]*>([^<]+)<\[aq],\ webpage,\ \[aq]uploader\[aq],\ fatal=False), \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ #\ TODO\ more\ properties\ (see\ youtube_dl/extractor/common.py) \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ } \f[] @@ -1472,7 +1777,7 @@ class\ YourExtractorIE(InfoExtractor): .RE .IP " 5." 4 Add an import in -\f[C]youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py\f[] (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py). +\f[C]youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py\f[] (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py). .IP " 6." 4 Run \f[C]python\ test/test_download.py\ TestDownload.test_YourExtractor\f[]. @@ -1488,12 +1793,33 @@ Have a look at \f[C]youtube_dl/extractor/common.py\f[] (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). +return (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/58525c94d547be1c8167d16c298bdd75506db328/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py#L68-L226). Add tests and code for as many as you want. .IP " 8." 4 -If you can, check the code with -flake8 (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/flake8). +Keep in mind that the only mandatory fields in info dict for successful +extraction process are \f[C]id\f[], \f[C]title\f[] and either +\f[C]url\f[] or \f[C]formats\f[], i.e. +these are the critical data the extraction does not make any sense +without. +This means that any +field (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/58525c94d547be1c8167d16c298bdd75506db328/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py#L138-L226) +apart from aforementioned mandatory ones should be treated \f[B]as +optional\f[] and extraction should be \f[B]tolerate\f[] to situations +when sources for these fields can potentially be unavailable (even if +they always available at the moment) and \f[B]future\-proof\f[] in order +not to break the extraction of general purpose mandatory fields. +For example, if you have some intermediate dict \f[C]meta\f[] that is a +source of metadata and it has a key \f[C]summary\f[] that you want to +extract and put into resulting info dict as \f[C]description\f[], you +should be ready that this key may be missing from the \f[C]meta\f[] +dict, i.e. +you should extract it as \f[C]meta.get(\[aq]summary\[aq])\f[] and not +\f[C]meta[\[aq]summary\[aq]]\f[]. +Similarly, you should pass \f[C]fatal=False\f[] when extracting data +from a webpage with \f[C]_search_regex/_html_search_regex\f[]. .IP " 9." 4 +Check the code with flake8 (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/flake8). +.IP "10." 4 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: @@ -1501,14 +1827,14 @@ push (http://git-scm.com/docs/git-push) the result, like this: .IP .nf \f[C] -$\ git\ add\ youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py +$\ git\ add\ youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py $\ git\ add\ youtube_dl/extractor/yourextractor.py $\ git\ commit\ \-m\ \[aq][yourextractor]\ Add\ new\ extractor\[aq] $\ git\ push\ origin\ yourextractor \f[] .fi .RE -.IP "10." 4 +.IP "11." 4 Finally, create a pull request (https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request). We\[aq]ll then review and merge it. @@ -1537,7 +1863,7 @@ with\ youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts)\ as\ ydl: .PP Most likely, you\[aq]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). +\f[C]youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py\f[] (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py#L121-L269). For a start, if you want to intercept youtube\-dl\[aq]s output, set a \f[C]logger\f[] object. .PP @@ -1584,16 +1910,41 @@ with\ youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts)\ as\ ydl: .SH BUGS .PP Bugs and suggestions should be reported at: - . +. 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. +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)). .PP \f[B]Please include the full output of youtube\-dl when run with -\f[C]\-v\f[]\f[]. +\f[C]\-v\f[]\f[], i.e. +\f[B]add\f[] \f[C]\-v\f[] flag to \f[B]your command line\f[], copy the +\f[B]whole\f[] output and post it in the issue body wrapped in ``` for +better formatting. +It should look similar to this: +.IP +.nf +\f[C] +$\ youtube\-dl\ \-v\ +[debug]\ System\ config:\ [] +[debug]\ User\ config:\ [] +[debug]\ Command\-line\ args:\ [u\[aq]\-v\[aq],\ u\[aq]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj\[aq]] +[debug]\ Encodings:\ locale\ cp1251,\ fs\ mbcs,\ out\ cp866,\ pref\ cp1251 +[debug]\ youtube\-dl\ version\ 2015.12.06 +[debug]\ Git\ HEAD:\ 135392e +[debug]\ Python\ version\ 2.6.6\ \-\ Windows\-2003Server\-5.2.3790\-SP2 +[debug]\ exe\ versions:\ ffmpeg\ N\-75573\-g1d0487f,\ ffprobe\ N\-75573\-g1d0487f,\ rtmpdump\ 2.4 +[debug]\ Proxy\ map:\ {} +\&... +\f[] +.fi +.PP +\f[B]Do not post screenshots of verbose log only plain text is +acceptable.\f[] .PP -The output (including the first lines) contain important debugging +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. @@ -1623,7 +1974,7 @@ 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\[aq]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 +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. .PP @@ -1644,11 +1995,11 @@ command\-line) or upload the \f[C]\&.dump\f[] files you get when you add .PP \f[B]Site support requests must contain an example URL\f[]. An example URL is a URL you might want to download, like -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc . +\f[C]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc\f[]. 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 \f[I]not\f[] an example URL. +\f[C]http://www.youtube.com/\f[]) is \f[I]not\f[] an example URL. .SS Are you using the latest version? .PP Before reporting any issue, type \f[C]youtube\-dl\ \-U\f[]. @@ -1660,8 +2011,9 @@ This goes for feature requests as well. .PP Make sure that someone has not already opened the issue you\[aq]re trying to open. -Search at the top of the window or at -https://github.com/rg3/youtube\-dl/search?type=Issues . +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: ...". @@ -1738,6 +2090,6 @@ bug. .PP youtube\-dl is released into the public domain by the copyright holders. .PP -This README file was originally written by Daniel Bolton -() 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. diff --git a/network/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.SlackBuild b/network/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.SlackBuild index 3cad72f903..bf95af2932 100644 --- a/network/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.SlackBuild +++ b/network/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.SlackBuild @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ # ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. PRGNAM=youtube-dl -VERSION=${VERSION:-2016.05.30.2} +VERSION=${VERSION:-2016.06.03} BUILD=${BUILD:-1} TAG=${TAG:-_SBo} diff --git a/network/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.info b/network/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.info index 449b2274d0..8a17dab6f8 100644 --- a/network/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.info +++ b/network/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.info @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ PRGNAM="youtube-dl" -VERSION="2016.05.30.2" +VERSION="2016.06.03" HOMEPAGE="https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl" -DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/archive/2016.05.30.2.tar.gz" -MD5SUM="11ba6076c5cbb75ca6c08654b0524be9" +DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/archive/2016.06.03.tar.gz" +MD5SUM="b7401413b0e97a73e4871951e2857d82" DOWNLOAD_x86_64="" MD5SUM_x86_64="" REQUIRES="" -- cgit v1.2.3