help='Display sent and read HTTP traffic')
- filesystem.add_option('-t', '--title',
- action='store_true', dest='usetitle', help='use title in file name (default)', default=False)
+ filesystem.add_option('-a', '--batch-file',
+ dest='batchfile', metavar='FILE', help='file containing URLs to download (\'-\' for stdin)')
filesystem.add_option('--id',
action='store_true', dest='useid', help='use only video ID in file name', default=False)
- filesystem.add_option('-l', '--literal',
- action='store_true', dest='usetitle', help='[deprecated] alias of --title', default=False)
filesystem.add_option('-A', '--auto-number',
action='store_true', dest='autonumber',
help='number downloaded files starting from 00000', default=False)
filesystem.add_option('--restrict-filenames',
action='store_true', dest='restrictfilenames',
help='Restrict filenames to only ASCII characters, and avoid "&" and spaces in filenames', default=False)
- filesystem.add_option('-a', '--batch-file',
- dest='batchfile', metavar='FILE', help='file containing URLs to download (\'-\' for stdin)')
- filesystem.add_option('--load-info',
- dest='load_info_filename', metavar='FILE',
- help='json file containing the video information (created with the "--write-json" option)')
+ filesystem.add_option('-t', '--title',
+ action='store_true', dest='usetitle', help='use title in file name (default)', default=False)
+ filesystem.add_option('-l', '--literal',
+ action='store_true', dest='usetitle', help='[deprecated] alias of --title', default=False)
filesystem.add_option('-w', '--no-overwrites',
action='store_true', dest='nooverwrites', help='do not overwrite files', default=False)
filesystem.add_option('-c', '--continue',
filesystem.add_option('--no-continue',
action='store_false', dest='continue_dl',
help='do not resume partially downloaded files (restart from beginning)')
- filesystem.add_option('--cookies',
- dest='cookiefile', metavar='FILE', help='file to read cookies from and dump cookie jar in')
filesystem.add_option('--no-part',
action='store_true', dest='nopart', help='do not use .part files', default=False)
filesystem.add_option('--no-mtime',
filesystem.add_option('--write-thumbnail',
action='store_true', dest='writethumbnail',
help='write thumbnail image to disk', default=False)
+ filesystem.add_option('--load-info',
+ dest='load_info_filename', metavar='FILE',
+ help='json file containing the video information (created with the "--write-json" option)')
+ filesystem.add_option('--cookies',
+ dest='cookiefile', metavar='FILE', help='file to read cookies from and dump cookie jar in')
filesystem.add_option(
'--cache-dir', dest='cachedir', default=get_cachedir(), metavar='DIR',
help='Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl can store some downloaded information permanently. By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/youtube-dl or ~/.cache/youtube-dl . At the moment, only YouTube player files (for videos with obfuscated signatures) are cached, but that may change.')