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<!DOCTYPE html 
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     PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
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     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
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<head>
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	<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
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	<title>youtube-dl: Download videos from YouTube.com</title>
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	<style type="text/css"><!--
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		body {
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			font-family: sans-serif;
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		h1 {
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			text-align: center;
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			text-decoration: underline;
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			color: #006699;
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		h2 {
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			color: #006699;
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		}
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		p {
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			text-align: justify;
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			margin-left: 5%;
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			margin-right: 5%;
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		}
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		ul {
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			margin-left: 5%;
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			margin-right: 5%;
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			list-style-type: square;
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		}
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		li {
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			margin-bottom: 0.5ex;
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		}
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		#copyright {
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			font-size: x-small;
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			text-align: center;
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		}
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		--></style>
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</head>
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<body>
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<h1>youtube-dl: Download videos from YouTube.com</h1>
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<h2>What is it?</h2>
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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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<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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<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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<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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<h2>Usage instructions</h2>
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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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<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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<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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<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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<h2>More usage tips</h2>
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<ul>
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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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<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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<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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<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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<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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<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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<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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<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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<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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<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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<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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<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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<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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<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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</ul>
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<h2>Download it</h2>
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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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<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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<p id="copyright">Copyright © 2006-2007 Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez</p>
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</body>
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</html>
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