NAME

yt-download - Download YouTube videos.

VERSION

Version 0.026

SYNOPSIS

yt-download -h|-?|--help

yt-download

yt-download url|id [url|id ...]

yt-download -f|--file filename

When passing only the id instead of the entire url it is needed to prefix every playlist id with p# and every channel id with c#.

Video ids are passed without any prefix.

The ids/urls can be entered after calling yt-download - this is useful if urls contain shell metacharacters like &.

The ids/urls can also be passed with a file: yt-download -f|--file filename. The urls/id in the file have to be space separated.

DESCRIPTION

Download single YouTube videos or/and choose videos from playlists or/and channels.

When choosing from a channel or list it is possible to filter the displayed items with a regexp.

Before the download the script shows some video info and lets you choose the video quality from the available qualities.

Instead of choosing the quality manually it is possible to set and use preferred qualities.

To set the different options call yt-download -h.

App::YTDL uses youtube-dl to get the data required for the video download.

Legacy encodings

Non mappable characters on the output are replaced with *. In file names they are replaced with &#xNNN; where NNN is the Unicode code point in a decimal number.

Options

HELP

Shows this HELP text.

PATH

Shows the version and the path of the running yt-download and the path of the video directory, of the log file and of the configuration file.

UserAgent

Sets the useragent.

If entered nothing the default useragent (Mozilla/5.0) is used.

Overwrite

If Overwrite is enabled, existing files are overwritten.

If not enabled yt-download appends to partially downloaded file with the same name.

Auto quality mode

Sets the auto quality (fmt) mode:

mode 0: choose always manually
mode 1: keep the first quality chosen for a playlist/channel for all videos of that playlist/channel if possible.
mode 2: keep the first chosen quality for all downloads if possible.
mode 3: use preferred qualities.
mode 4: use always default (best) quality.

Preferred qualities

Sets the preferred qualities (fmts)

Download retries

Sets the number of download retries.

Connection timeout

timeout (seconds) is used as the value for the youtube-dl parameter --socket-timeout. timeout is also used as the value for the LWP::UserAgent option timeout when fetching the data required for the video download.

Logging

Enables info logging.

Max info width

Sets the maximum width of video info output.

Auto width

Increase the info output width automatically if the info text is long.

Max filename length

Sets the maximum length of the filename. Filenames longer as the maximum length are truncated.

Digits for "k/s"

Sets the number of digits allocated for the "kilobyte per seconds" template.

Video directory

Choose an alternative YouTube video directory.

Channel history

How many channels should be saved in the channel history file (channels made sticky don't count). Setting Channel history to "0" disables the channel history.

If no arguments are passed to yt-download the user can choose from the channels saved in the channel history file and channel sticky file.

Channel directory

0 => Don't use channel directories.
1 => Use channel directories if the video is chosen from a channel or a list.
2 => Use always channel directories.

Sort order

If set to "YES" the latest videos from a channel/list are on top of the menu else they are at the end of the menu.

REQUIREMENTS

Perl version

Requires Perl version 5.10.0 or greater.

youtube-dl

youtube-dl is required.

Encoding layer

For a correct output it is required an appropriate encoding layer for STDOUT matching the terminal's character set.

Monospaced font

It is required a terminal that uses a monospaced font which supports the printed characters.

CREDITS