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NAME

yt-download - Download YouTube videos.

VERSION

Version 0.002

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 option -f/--file expects as its value a filename. This file should contain a list of space separated urls respectively ids.

DESCRIPTION

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

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.

It is assumed UTF-8 as the console output encoding except for MSWin32 OS where the output encoding is detected automatically. But it is recommended also for MSWin32 OS to work with an UTF encoding since non mappable characters on the output or in filenames might break the execution of the script.

Options

HELP

Show this HELP text.

PATH

Show the path of the executed yt-download, of the log file and of the config file.

UserAgent

Set the useragent.

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

If entered "" the useragent is set to an empty string.

If entered a single space, the default LWP::UserAgent is used.

Overwrite

If enabled existing files are overwritten.

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

Set auto quality

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

Preferred qualities

Sets the preferred qualities (fmts)

Download retries

Sets the number of download retries.

Enable logging

Enables info logging.

Max info width

Sets the maximum width of video info output.

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" output.

AUTHOR

Kuerbis <cuer2s@gmail.com>

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2013-2014 Kuerbis.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.