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+<h1>youtube-dl: Download videos from YouTube.com</h1>
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+
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+<h2>What is it?</h2>
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+
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+<p><em>youtube-dl</em> is a small command-line program to download videos
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+from YouTube.com. It requires the <a href="http://www.python.org/">Python
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+interpreter</a>, version 2.4 or later, and it's not platform specific.
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+It should work in your Unix box, in Windows or in Mac OS X. The latest version
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+is <strong>@PROGRAM_VERSION@</strong>. It's licensed under the MIT License, which
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+means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like
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+complying with a few simple conditions.</p>
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+
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+<p>I'll try to keep it updated if YouTube.com changes the way you access
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+their videos. After all, it's a simple and short program. However, I can't
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+guarantee anything. If you detect it stops working, check for new versions
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+and/or inform me about the problem, indicating the program version you
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+are using. If the program stops working and I can't solve the problem but
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+you have a solution, I'd like to know it. If that happens and you feel you
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+can maintain the program yourself, tell me. My contact information is
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+at <a href="http://freshmeat.net/~rg3/">freshmeat.net</a>.</p>
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+
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+<p>Thanks for all the feedback received so far. I'm glad people find my
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+program useful.</p>
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+
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+<p><strong>Related projects</strong>:
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+<a href="../metacafe-dl/">metacafe-dl</a>
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+<a href="../pornotube-dl/">pornotube-dl</a>
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+</p>
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+
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+<h2>Usage instructions</h2>
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+
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+<p>In Windows, once you have installed the Python interpreter, save the
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+program with the <em>.py</em> extension and put it somewhere in the PATH.
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+Try to follow the
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+<a href="http://rg03.wordpress.com/youtube-dl-under-windows-xp/">guide to
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+install youtube-dl under Windows XP</a>.</p>
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+
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+<p>In Unix, download it, give it execution permission and copy it to one
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+of the PATH directories (typically, <em>/usr/local/bin</em>).</p>
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+
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+<p>After that, you should be able to call it from the command line as
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+<em>youtube-dl</em> or <em>youtube-dl.py</em>. I will use <em>youtube-dl</em>
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+in the following examples. Usage instructions are easy. Use <em>youtube-dl</em>
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+followed by a video URL or identifier. Example: <em>youtube-dl
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+"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar"</em>. The video will be saved
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+to the file <em>foobar.flv</em> in that example. As YouTube.com
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+videos are in Flash Video format, their extension should be <em>flv</em>.
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+In Linux and other unices, video players using a recent version of
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+<em>ffmpeg</em> can play them. That includes MPlayer, VLC, etc. Those two
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+work under Windows and other platforms, but you could also get a
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+specific FLV player of your taste.</p>
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+
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+<p>If you try to run the program and you receive an error message containing the
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+keyword <em>SyntaxError</em> near the end, it means your Python interpreter
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+is too old.</p>
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+
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+<h2>More usage tips</h2>
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+
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+<ul>
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+
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+<li>You can change the file name of the video using the -o option, like in
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+<em>youtube-dl -o vid.flv "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar"</em>.</li>
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+
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+<li>Some videos require an account to be downloaded, mostly because they're
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+flagged as mature content. You can pass the program a username and password
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+for a YouTube.com account with the -u and -p options, like <em>youtube-dl
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+-u myusername -p mypassword "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar"</em>.</li>
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+
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+<li>The account data can also be read from the user .netrc file by indicating
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+the -n or --netrc option. The machine name is <em>youtube</em> in that
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+case.</li>
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+
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+<li>The <em>simulate mode</em> (activated with -s or --simulate) can be used
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+to just get the real video URL and use it with a download manager if you
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+prefer that option.</li>
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+
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+<li>The <em>quiet mode</em> (activated with -q or --quiet) can be used to
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+supress all output messages. This allows, in systems featuring /dev/stdout
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+and other similar special files, outputting the video data to standard output
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+in order to pipe it to another program without interferences.</li>
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+
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+<li>The program can be told to simply print the final video URL to standard
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+output using the -g or --get-url option.</li>
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+
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+<li>Combined with the above option, the -2 or --title-too option tells the
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+program to print the video title too.</li>
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+
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+<li>The default filename is <em>video_id.flv</em>. But you can also use the
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+video title in the filename with the -t or --title option, or preserve the
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+literal title in the filename with the -l or --literal option.</li>
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+
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+<li>You can make the program append <em>&fmt=something</em> to the URL
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+by using the -f or --format option. This makes it possible to download high
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+quality versions of the videos when available.</li>
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+
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+<li><em>youtube-dl</em> can attempt to download the best quality version of
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+a video by using the -b or --best-quality option.</li>
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+
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+<li><em>youtube-dl</em> honors the <em>http_proxy</em> environment variable
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+if you want to use a proxy. Set it to something like
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+<em>http://proxy.example.com:8080</em>, and do not leave the <em>http://</em>
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+prefix out.</li>
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+
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+<li>You can get the program version by calling it as <em>youtube-dl
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+-v</em> or <em>youtube-dl --version</em>.</li>
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+
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+<li>For usage instructions, use <em>youtube-dl -h</em> or <em>youtube-dl
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+--help.</em></li>
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+
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+<li>You can cancel the program at any time pressing Ctrl+C. It may print
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+some error lines saying something about <em>KeyboardInterrupt</em>.
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+That's ok.</li>
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+
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+</ul>
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+
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+<h2>Download it</h2>
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+
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+<p>Note that if you directly click on these hyperlinks, your web browser will
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+most likely display the program contents. It's usually better to
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+right-click on it and choose the appropriate option, normally called <em>Save
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+Target As</em> or <em>Save Link As</em>, depending on the web browser you
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+are using.</p>
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+
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+<p><a href="youtube-dl">@PROGRAM_VERSION@</a></p>
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+<ul>
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+ <li><strong>MD5</strong>: @PROGRAM_MD5SUM@</li>
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+ <li><strong>SHA1</strong>: @PROGRAM_SHA1SUM@</li>
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+ <li><strong>SHA256</strong>: @PROGRAM_SHA256SUM@</li>
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+</ul>
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+
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+<p id="copyright">Copyright © 2006-2007 Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez</p>
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+</body>
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+</html>
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Ricardo Garcia