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youtube-dl: Download videos from YouTube.com
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What is it?
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youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos
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from YouTube.com. It requires the Python
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interpreter, 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 2008.01.24. 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.
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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 freshmeat.net.
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Thanks for all the feedback received so far. I'm glad people find my
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program useful.
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Related projects:
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metacafe-dl
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pornotube-dl
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Usage instructions
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In Windows, once you have installed the Python interpreter, save the
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program with the .py extension and put it somewhere in the PATH.
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Try to follow the
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guide to
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install youtube-dl under Windows XP.
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In Unix, download it, give it execution permission and copy it to one
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of the PATH directories (typically, /usr/local/bin).
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After that, you should be able to call it from the command line as
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youtube-dl or youtube-dl.py. I will use youtube-dl
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in the following examples. Usage instructions are easy. Use youtube-dl
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followed by a video URL or identifier. Example: youtube-dl
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"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar". The video will be saved
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to the file foobar.flv in that example. As YouTube.com
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videos are in Flash Video format, their extension should be flv.
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In Linux and other unices, video players using a recent version of
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ffmpeg 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.
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If you try to run the program and you receive an error message containing the
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keyword SyntaxError near the end, it means your Python interpreter
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is too old.
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More usage tips
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You can change the file name of the video using the -o option, like in
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youtube-dl -o vid.flv "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar".
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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 youtube-dl
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-u myusername -p mypassword "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar".
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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 youtube in that
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case.
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The simulate mode (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.
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The quiet mode (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.
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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.
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Combined with the above option, the -2 or --title-too option tells the
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program to print the video title too.
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The default filename is video_id.flv. But you can also use the
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video title in the filename with the -t or --title option.
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youtube-dl honors the http_proxy environment variable
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if you want to use a proxy. Set it to something like
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http://proxy.example.com:8080, and do not leave the http://
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prefix out.
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You can get the program version by calling it as youtube-dl
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-v or youtube-dl --version.
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For usage instructions, use youtube-dl -h or youtube-dl
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--help.
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You can cancel the program at any time pressing Ctrl+C. It may print
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some error lines saying something about KeyboardInterrupt.
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That's ok.
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Download it
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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 Save
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Target As or Save Link As, depending on the web browser you
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are using.
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2008.01.24
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MD5: 48a7df743398bbfdf2710962000886cb
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SHA1: 05ab118a157dbeedf7430d8445963c0340188c04
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SHA256: 6e98f3abfa79a038e578d45441bb6675ac6d4880bae4b801d5125e364e60d5c5
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Copyright © 2006-2007 Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez
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