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NAME

       yt-dlp - A youtube-dl fork with additional features and patches

SYNOPSIS

       yt-dlp [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

DESCRIPTION

       yt-dlp  is  a youtube-dl (https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl) fork based on the now inactive youtube-
       dlc (https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc).  The main focus of this project is adding new features and
       patches while also keeping up to date with the original project

OPTIONS

   General Options:
       -h, --help
              Print this help text and exit

       --version
              Print program version and exit

       -i, --ignore-errors
              Ignore download and postprocessing errors.  The download will be considered successful even if the
              postprocessing fails

       --no-abort-on-error
              Continue with next video on download errors; e.g.   to  skip  unavailable  videos  in  a  playlist
              (default)

       --abort-on-error
              Abort downloading of further videos if an error occurs (Alias: --no-ignore-errors)

       --dump-user-agent
              Display the current user-agent and exit

       --list-extractors
              List all supported extractors and exit

       --extractor-descriptions
              Output descriptions of all supported extractors and exit

       --force-generic-extractor
              Force extraction to use the generic extractor

       --default-search PREFIX
              Use  this  prefix for unqualified URLs.  For example "gvsearch2:" downloads two videos from google
              videos  for  the  search  term  "large  apple".   Use  the  value  "auto"  to  let  yt-dlp   guess
              ("auto_warning"  to  emit  a  warning  when guessing).  "error" just throws an error.  The default
              value "fixup_error" repairs broken URLs, but emits an error if this is  not  possible  instead  of
              searching

       --ignore-config
              Don't  load  any  more configuration files except those given by --config-locations.  For backward
              compatibility,  if  this  option  is  found  inside  the  system  configuration  file,  the   user
              configuration is not loaded.  (Alias: --no-config)

       --no-config-locations
              Do  not  load  any  custom configuration files (default).  When given inside a configuration file,
              ignore all previous --config-locations defined in the current file

       --config-locations PATH
              Location of the main configuration  file;  either  the  path  to  the  config  or  its  containing
              directory.  Can be used multiple times and inside other configuration files

       --flat-playlist
              Do not extract the videos of a playlist, only list them

       --no-flat-playlist
              Extract the videos of a playlist

       --live-from-start
              Download livestreams from the start.  Currently only supported for YouTube (Experimental)

       --no-live-from-start
              Download livestreams from the current time (default)

       --wait-for-video MIN[-MAX]
              Wait  for scheduled streams to become available.  Pass the minimum number of seconds (or range) to
              wait between retries

       --no-wait-for-video
              Do not wait for scheduled streams (default)

       --mark-watched
              Mark videos watched (even with --simulate)

       --no-mark-watched
              Do not mark videos watched (default)

       --no-colors
              Do not emit color codes in output

       --compat-options OPTS
              Options that can  help  keep  compatibility  with  youtube-dl  or  youtube-dlc  configurations  by
              reverting some of the changes made in yt-dlp.  See "Differences in default behavior" for details

   Network Options:
       --proxy URL
              Use  the  specified  HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy.  To enable SOCKS proxy, specify a proper scheme.  For
              example socks5://user:pass@127.0.0.1:1080/.  Pass in an  empty  string  (--proxy  "")  for  direct
              connection

       --socket-timeout SECONDS
              Time to wait before giving up, in seconds

       --source-address IP
              Client-side IP address to bind to

       -4, --force-ipv4
              Make all connections via IPv4

       -6, --force-ipv6
              Make all connections via IPv6

   Geo-restriction:
       --geo-verification-proxy URL
              Use  this  proxy  to  verify  the  IP  address  for  some geo-restricted sites.  The default proxy
              specified by --proxy (or none, if the option is not present) is used for the actual downloading

       --geo-bypass
              Bypass geographic restriction via faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header (default)

       --no-geo-bypass
              Do not bypass geographic restriction via faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header

       --geo-bypass-country CODE
              Force bypass geographic restriction with explicitly provided two-letter ISO 3166-2 country code

       --geo-bypass-ip-block IP_BLOCK
              Force bypass geographic restriction with explicitly provided IP block in CIDR notation

   Video Selection:
       --playlist-start NUMBER
              Playlist video to start at (default is 1)

       --playlist-end NUMBER
              Playlist video to end at (default is last)

       --playlist-items ITEM_SPEC
              Playlist video items to download.  Specify indices of the videos  in  the  playlist  separated  by
              commas  like:  "--playlist-items 1,2,5,8" if you want to download videos indexed 1, 2, 5, 8 in the
              playlist.  You can specify range: "--playlist-items 1-3,7,10-13", it will download the  videos  at
              index 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13

       --min-filesize SIZE
              Do not download any videos smaller than SIZE (e.g.  50k or 44.6m)

       --max-filesize SIZE
              Do not download any videos larger than SIZE (e.g.  50k or 44.6m)

       --date DATE
              Download  only  videos  uploaded  on  this  date.   The  date  can  be "YYYYMMDD" or in the format
              "(now|today)[+-][0-9](day|week|month|year)(s)?"

       --datebefore DATE
              Download only videos uploaded on or before this date.  The date formats accepted is  the  same  as
              --date

       --dateafter DATE
              Download  only  videos  uploaded  on or after this date.  The date formats accepted is the same as
              --date

       --match-filters FILTER
              Generic video filter.  Any field (see "OUTPUT TEMPLATE") can be compared with a number or a string
              using  the operators defined in "Filtering formats".  You can also simply specify a field to match
              if the field is present, use "!field" to check if the field is  not  present,  and  "&"  to  check
              multiple  conditions.   Use  a  "" to escape "&" or quotes if needed.  If used multiple times, the
              filter matches if atleast one of the conditions are met.   Eg:  --match-filter  !is_live  --match-
              filter "like_count>?100 & description~='(?i)& dogs" matches only videos that are not live OR those
              that have a like count more than 100 (or  the  like  field  is  not  available)  and  also  has  a
              description that contains the phrase "cats & dogs" (ignoring case)

       --no-match-filter
              Do not use generic video filter (default)

       --no-playlist
              Download only the video, if the URL refers to a video and a playlist

       --yes-playlist
              Download the playlist, if the URL refers to a video and a playlist

       --age-limit YEARS
              Download only videos suitable for the given age

       --download-archive FILE
              Download  only  videos not listed in the archive file.  Record the IDs of all downloaded videos in
              it

       --no-download-archive
              Do not use archive file (default)

       --max-downloads NUMBER
              Abort after downloading NUMBER files

       --break-on-existing
              Stop the download process when encountering a file that is in the archive

       --break-on-reject
              Stop the download process when encountering a file that has been filtered out

       --break-per-input
              Make --break-on-existing and --break-on- reject act only on the current input URL

       --no-break-per-input
              --break-on-existing and --break-on-reject terminates the entire download queue

       --skip-playlist-after-errors N
              Number of allowed failures until the rest of the playlist is skipped

   Download Options:
       -N, --concurrent-fragments N
              Number of fragments of a dash/hlsnative video that should be downloaded concurrently  (default  is
              1)

       -r, --limit-rate RATE
              Maximum download rate in bytes per second (e.g.  50K or 4.2M)

       --throttled-rate RATE
              Minimum  download rate in bytes per second below which throttling is assumed and the video data is
              re-extracted (e.g.  100K)

       -R, --retries RETRIES
              Number of retries (default is 10), or "infinite"

       --file-access-retries RETRIES
              Number of times to retry on file access error (default is 10), or "infinite"

       --fragment-retries RETRIES
              Number of retries for a fragment (default is 10), or "infinite" (DASH, hlsnative and ISM)

       --skip-unavailable-fragments
              Skip  unavailable  fragments  for  DASH,  hlsnative  and  ISM  (default)  (Alias:   --no-abort-on-
              unavailable-fragment)

       --abort-on-unavailable-fragment * Abort downloading if a fragment is unavailable*
              (Alias: --no-skip-unavailable-fragments)

       --keep-fragments
              Keep downloaded fragments on disk after downloading is finished

       --no-keep-fragments
              Delete downloaded fragments after downloading is finished (default)

       --buffer-size SIZE
              Size of download buffer (e.g.  1024 or 16K) (default is 1024)

       --resize-buffer
              The buffer size is automatically resized from an initial value of --buffer-size (default)

       --no-resize-buffer
              Do not automatically adjust the buffer size

       --http-chunk-size SIZE
              Size  of  a  chunk for chunk-based HTTP downloading (e.g.  10485760 or 10M) (default is disabled).
              May be useful for bypassing bandwidth throttling imposed by a webserver (experimental)

       --playlist-reverse
              Download playlist videos in reverse order

       --no-playlist-reverse
              Download playlist videos in default order (default)

       --playlist-random
              Download playlist videos in random order

       --xattr-set-filesize
              Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with expected file size

       --hls-use-mpegts
              Use the mpegts  container  for  HLS  videos;  allowing  some  players  to  play  the  video  while
              downloading,  and  reducing  the  chance  of  file corruption if download is interrupted.  This is
              enabled by default for live streams

       --no-hls-use-mpegts
              Do not use the mpegts container for HLS videos.  This is default when not downloading live streams

       --downloader [PROTO:]NAME
              Name or path of the external downloader to use (optionally) prefixed by the protocols (http,  ftp,
              m3u8,  dash,  rstp,  rtmp,  mms)  to use it for.  Currently supports native, aria2c, avconv, axel,
              curl, ffmpeg, httpie, wget (Recommended: aria2c).  You can use this option multiple times  to  set
              different  downloaders  for  different  protocols.   For example, --downloader aria2c --downloader
              "dash,m3u8:native" will use aria2c for http/ftp downloads, and the native downloader for dash/m3u8
              downloads (Alias: --external-downloader)

       --downloader-args NAME:ARGS
              Give  these  arguments  to the external downloader.  Specify the downloader name and the arguments
              separated by a colon ":".  For ffmpeg, arguments can be passed to different  positions  using  the
              same  syntax  as  --postprocessor-args.   You can use this option multiple times to give different
              arguments to different downloaders (Alias: --external-downloader-args)

   Filesystem Options:
       -a, --batch-file FILE
              File containing URLs to download ("-" for stdin), one URL per line.  Lines starting with "#",  ";"
              or "]" are considered as comments and ignored

       --no-batch-file
              Do not read URLs from batch file (default)

       -P, --paths [TYPES:]PATH
              The  paths  where the files should be downloaded.  Specify the type of file and the path separated
              by a colon ":".  All the same TYPES as --output are supported.  Additionally, you can also provide
              "home"  (default)  and "temp" paths.  All intermediary files are first downloaded to the temp path
              and then the final files are moved over to the home path after download is finished.  This  option
              is ignored if --output is an absolute path

       -o, --output [TYPES:]TEMPLATE
              Output filename template; see "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details

       --output-na-placeholder TEXT
              Placeholder value for unavailable meta fields in output filename template (default: "NA")

       --restrict-filenames
              Restrict filenames to only ASCII characters, and avoid "&" and spaces in filenames

       --no-restrict-filenames
              Allow Unicode characters, "&" and spaces in filenames (default)

       --windows-filenames
              Force filenames to be Windows-compatible

       --no-windows-filenames
              Make filenames Windows-compatible only if using Windows (default)

       --trim-filenames LENGTH
              Limit the filename length (excluding extension) to the specified number of characters

       -w, --no-overwrites
              Do not overwrite any files

       --force-overwrites
              Overwrite all video and metadata files.  This option includes --no-continue

       --no-force-overwrites
              Do not overwrite the video, but overwrite related files (default)

       -c, --continue
              Resume partially downloaded files/fragments (default)

       --no-continue
              Do  not resume partially downloaded fragments.  If the file is not fragmented, restart download of
              the entire file

       --part Use .part files instead of writing directly into output file (default)

       --no-part
              Do not use .part files - write directly into output file

       --mtime
              Use the Last-modified header to set the file modification time (default)

       --no-mtime
              Do not use the Last-modified header to set the file modification time

       --write-description
              Write video description to a .description file

       --no-write-description
              Do not write video description (default)

       --write-info-json
              Write video metadata to a .info.json file (this may contain personal information)

       --no-write-info-json
              Do not write video metadata (default)

       --write-playlist-metafiles
              Write playlist metadata in addition to the video metadata when using  --write-info-json,  --write-
              description etc.  (default)

       --no-write-playlist-metafiles
              Do not write playlist metadata when using --write-info-json, --write-description etc.

       --clean-info-json
              Remove  some private fields such as filenames from the infojson.  Note that it could still contain
              some personal information (default)

       --no-clean-info-json
              Write all fields to the infojson

       --write-comments
              Retrieve video comments to be placed in the infojson.  The comments are fetched even without  this
              option if the extraction is known to be quick (Alias: --get-comments)

       --no-write-comments
              Do  not  retrieve  video  comments  unless  the  extraction is known to be quick (Alias: --no-get-
              comments)

       --load-info-json FILE
              JSON file containing the video information (created with the "--write-info-json" option)

       --cookies FILE
              Netscape formatted file to read cookies from and dump cookie jar in

       --no-cookies
              Do not read/dump cookies from/to file (default)

       --cookies-from-browser BROWSER[+KEYRING][:PROFILE]
              The name of the browser and (optionally) the name/path  of  the  profile  to  load  cookies  from,
              separated  by  a  ":".   Currently supported browsers are: brave, chrome, chromium, edge, firefox,
              opera, safari, vivaldi.  By default, the most recently accessed profile is used.  The keyring used
              for  decrypting  Chromium  cookies  on  Linux can be (optionally) specified after the browser name
              separated by a "+".  Currently supported keyrings are: basictext, gnomekeyring, kwallet

       --no-cookies-from-browser
              Do not load cookies from browser (default)

       --cache-dir DIR
              Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl can store some downloaded information (such as  client
              ids and signatures) permanently.  By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/yt-dlp or ~/.cache/yt-dlp

       --no-cache-dir
              Disable filesystem caching

       --rm-cache-dir
              Delete all filesystem cache files

   Thumbnail Options:
       --write-thumbnail
              Write thumbnail image to disk

       --no-write-thumbnail
              Do not write thumbnail image to disk (default)

       --write-all-thumbnails
              Write all thumbnail image formats to disk

       --list-thumbnails
              List available thumbnails of each video.  Simulate unless --no-simulate is used

   Internet Shortcut Options:
       --write-link
              Write  an  internet  shortcut file, depending on the current platform (.url, .webloc or .desktop).
              The URL may be cached by the OS

       --write-url-link
              Write a .url Windows internet shortcut.  The OS caches the URL based on the file path

       --write-webloc-link
              Write a .webloc macOS internet shortcut

       --write-desktop-link
              Write a .desktop Linux internet shortcut

   Verbosity and Simulation Options:
       -q, --quiet
              Activate quiet mode.  If used with --verbose, print the log to stderr

       --no-warnings
              Ignore warnings

       -s, --simulate
              Do not download the video and do not write anything to disk

       --no-simulate
              Download the video even if printing/listing options are used

       --ignore-no-formats-error
              Ignore "No video formats" error.  Useful for extracting  metadata  even  if  the  videos  are  not
              actually available for download (experimental)

       --no-ignore-no-formats-error
              Throw error when no downloadable video formats are found (default)

       --skip-download
              Do not download the video but write all related files (Alias: --no-download)

       -O, --print [WHEN:]TEMPLATE
              Field  name  or  output  template  to  print to screen, optionally prefixed with when to print it,
              separated by a ":".  Supported values of "WHEN" are the same as that of  --use-postprocessor,  and
              "video"  (default).   Implies  --quiet and --simulate (unless --no-simulate is used).  This option
              can be used multiple times

       --print-to-file [WHEN:]TEMPLATE FILE
              Append given template to the file.  The values of WHEN and TEMPLATE are same as that  of  --print.
              FILE uses the same syntax as the output template.  This option can be used multiple times

       -j, --dump-json
              Quiet,  but  print  JSON  information for each video.  Simulate unless --no-simulate is used.  See
              "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for a description of available keys

       -J, --dump-single-json
              Quiet, but print JSON information for each url or infojson passed.  Simulate unless  --no-simulate
              is  used.   If  the URL refers to a playlist, the whole playlist information is dumped in a single
              line

       --force-write-archive
              Force download archive entries to be written as far as no errors occur,  even  if  -s  or  another
              simulation option is used (Alias: --force-download-archive)

       --newline
              Output progress bar as new lines

       --no-progress
              Do not print progress bar

       --progress
              Show progress bar, even if in quiet mode

       --console-title
              Display progress in console titlebar

       --progress-template [TYPES:]TEMPLATE
              Template  for  progress outputs, optionally prefixed with one of "download:" (default), "download-
              title:" (the console title), "postprocess:", or  "postprocess-title:".   The  video's  fields  are
              accessible  under  the "info" key and the progress attributes are accessible under "progress" key.
              E.g.: --console-title --progress-template "download-title:%(info.id)s-%(progress.eta)s"

       -v, --verbose
              Print various debugging information

       --dump-pages
              Print downloaded pages encoded using base64 to debug problems (very verbose)

       --write-pages
              Write downloaded intermediary pages to files in the current directory to debug problems

       --print-traffic
              Display sent and read HTTP traffic

   Workarounds:
       --encoding ENCODING
              Force the specified encoding (experimental)

       --legacy-server-connect
              Explicitly allow HTTPS connection to servers that do not support RFC 5746 secure renegotiation

       --no-check-certificates
              Suppress HTTPS certificate validation

       --prefer-insecure
              Use an unencrypted connection to retrieve information about the video  (Currently  supported  only
              for YouTube)

       --add-header FIELD:VALUE
              Specify  a  custom  HTTP  header and its value, separated by a colon ":".  You can use this option
              multiple times

       --bidi-workaround
              Work around terminals that lack bidirectional text support.  Requires bidiv or fribidi  executable
              in PATH

       --sleep-requests SECONDS
              Number of seconds to sleep between requests during data extraction

       --sleep-interval SECONDS
              Number  of  seconds  to  sleep  before each download.  This is the minimum time to sleep when used
              along with --max-sleep-interval (Alias: --min-sleep-interval)

       --max-sleep-interval SECONDS
              Maximum number of seconds to sleep.  Can only be used along with --min-sleep-interval

       --sleep-subtitles SECONDS
              Number of seconds to sleep before each subtitle download

   Video Format Options:
       -f, --format FORMAT
              Video format code, see "FORMAT SELECTION" for more details

       -S, --format-sort SORTORDER
              Sort the formats by the fields given, see "Sorting Formats" for more details

       --S-force, --format-sort-force
              Force user specified sort order to have precedence over all fields, see "Sorting Formats" for more
              details

       --no-format-sort-force
              Some  fields  have  precedence over the user specified sort order (default), see "Sorting Formats"
              for more details

       --video-multistreams
              Allow multiple video streams to be merged into a single file

       --no-video-multistreams
              Only one video stream is downloaded for each output file (default)

       --audio-multistreams
              Allow multiple audio streams to be merged into a single file

       --no-audio-multistreams
              Only one audio stream is downloaded for each output file (default)

       --prefer-free-formats
              Prefer video formats with free containers over non-free ones of same quality.  Use with  "-S  ext"
              to strictly prefer free containers irrespective of quality

       --no-prefer-free-formats
              Don't give any special preference to free containers (default)

       --check-formats
              Make sure formats are selected only from those that are actually downloadable

       --check-all-formats
              Check all formats for whether they are actually downloadable

       --no-check-formats
              Do not check that the formats are actually downloadable

       -F, --list-formats
              List available formats of each video.  Simulate unless --no-simulate is used

       --merge-output-format FORMAT
              If a merge is required (e.g.  bestvideo+bestaudio), output to given container format.  One of mkv,
              mp4, ogg, webm, flv.  Ignored if no merge is required

   Subtitle Options:
       --write-subs
              Write subtitle file

       --no-write-subs
              Do not write subtitle file (default)

       --write-auto-subs
              Write automatically generated subtitle file (Alias: --write-automatic-subs)

       --no-write-auto-subs
              Do not write auto-generated subtitles (default) (Alias: --no-write-automatic-subs)

       --list-subs
              List available subtitles of each video.  Simulate unless --no-simulate is used

       --sub-format FORMAT
              Subtitle format, accepts formats preference, for example: "srt" or "ass/srt/best"

       --sub-langs LANGS
              Languages of the subtitles to download (can be regex) or "all" separated by commas.   (Eg:  --sub-
              langs  "en.*,ja")  You  can  prefix  the  language code with a "-" to exempt it from the requested
              languages.  (Eg: --sub-langs all,-live_chat) Use --list-subs for a list of available language tags

   Authentication Options:
       -u, --username USERNAME
              Login with this account ID

       -p, --password PASSWORD
              Account password.  If this option is left out, yt-dlp will ask interactively

       -2, --twofactor TWOFACTOR
              Two-factor authentication code

       -n, --netrc
              Use .netrc authentication data

       --netrc-location PATH
              Location of .netrc authentication data; either the path or its containing directory.  Defaults  to
              ~/.netrc

       --video-password PASSWORD
              Video password (vimeo, youku)

       --ap-mso MSO
              Adobe  Pass  multiple-system  operator  (TV  provider) identifier, use --ap-list-mso for a list of
              available MSOs

       --ap-username USERNAME
              Multiple-system operator account login

       --ap-password PASSWORD
              Multiple-system operator  account  password.   If  this  option  is  left  out,  yt-dlp  will  ask
              interactively

       --ap-list-mso
              List all supported multiple-system operators

   Post-Processing Options:
       -x, --extract-audio
              Convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg and ffprobe)

       --audio-format FORMAT
              Specify  audio  format  to convert the audio to when -x is used.  Currently supported formats are:
              best (default) or one of aac, flac, mp3, m4a, opus, vorbis, wav, alac

       --audio-quality QUALITY
              Specify ffmpeg audio quality to use when converting the audio with -x.  Insert a value  between  0
              (best) and 10 (worst) for VBR or a specific bitrate like 128K (default 5)

       --remux-video FORMAT
              Remux  the  video  into  another container if necessary (currently supported: mp4, mkv, flv, webm,
              mov, avi, mka, ogg, aac, flac, mp3, m4a, opus, vorbis, wav, alac).  If target container  does  not
              support  the  video/audio  codec,  remuxing  will  fail.   You  can  specify  multiple  rules; Eg.
              "aac>m4a/mov>mp4/mkv" will remux aac to m4a, mov to mp4 and anything else to mkv.

       --recode-video FORMAT
              Re-encode the video into another format if re-encoding is necessary.   The  syntax  and  supported
              formats are the same as --remux-video

       --postprocessor-args NAME:ARGS
              Give  these  arguments  to  the postprocessors.  Specify the postprocessor/executable name and the
              arguments separated by a colon ":" to give the argument to the specified postprocessor/executable.
              Supported   PP   are:   Merger,   ModifyChapters,   SplitChapters,   ExtractAudio,   VideoRemuxer,
              VideoConvertor, Metadata, EmbedSubtitle, EmbedThumbnail, SubtitlesConvertor,  ThumbnailsConvertor,
              FixupStretched,  FixupM4a, FixupM3u8, FixupTimestamp and FixupDuration.  The supported executables
              are: AtomicParsley, FFmpeg and FFprobe.  You can also specify "PP+EXE:ARGS" to give the  arguments
              to  the  specified  executable only when being used by the specified postprocessor.  Additionally,
              for ffmpeg/ffprobe, "_i"/"_o" can be appended to the prefix optionally followed  by  a  number  to
              pass  the argument before the specified input/output file.  Eg: --ppa "Merger+ffmpeg_i1:-v quiet".
              You can use this option multiple times to give different arguments  to  different  postprocessors.
              (Alias: --ppa)

       -k, --keep-video
              Keep the intermediate video file on disk after post-processing

       --no-keep-video
              Delete the intermediate video file after post-processing (default)

       --post-overwrites
              Overwrite post-processed files (default)

       --no-post-overwrites
              Do not overwrite post-processed files

       --embed-subs
              Embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4, webm and mkv videos)

       --no-embed-subs
              Do not embed subtitles (default)

       --embed-thumbnail
              Embed thumbnail in the video as cover art

       --no-embed-thumbnail
              Do not embed thumbnail (default)

       --embed-metadata
              Embed  metadata  to  the  video file.  Also embeds chapters/infojson if present unless --no-embed-
              chapters/--no-embed-info-json are used (Alias: --add-metadata)

       --no-embed-metadata
              Do not add metadata to file (default) (Alias: --no-add-metadata)

       --embed-chapters
              Add chapter markers to the video file (Alias: --add-chapters)

       --no-embed-chapters
              Do not add chapter markers (default) (Alias: --no-add-chapters)

       --embed-info-json
              Embed the infojson as an attachment to mkv/mka video files

       --no-embed-info-json
              Do not embed the infojson as an attachment to the video file

       --parse-metadata FROM:TO
              Parse additional metadata like title/artist  from  other  fields;  see  "MODIFYING  METADATA"  for
              details

       --replace-in-metadata FIELDS REGEX REPLACE
              Replace text in a metadata field using the given regex.  This option can be used multiple times

       --xattrs
              Write metadata to the video file's xattrs (using dublin core and xdg standards)

       --concat-playlist POLICY
              Concatenate  videos in a playlist.  One of "never", "always", or "multi_video" (default; only when
              the videos form a single show).  All the video files must have same codecs and number  of  streams
              to  be  concatable.   The  "pl_video:" prefix can be used with "--paths" and "--output" to set the
              output filename for the split files.  See "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details

       --fixup POLICY
              Automatically correct known faults of the file.  One of never (do  nothing),  warn  (only  emit  a
              warning), detect_or_warn (the default; fix file if we can, warn otherwise), force (try fixing even
              if file already exists)

       --ffmpeg-location PATH
              Location of the ffmpeg binary; either the path to the binary or its containing directory

       --exec [WHEN:]CMD
              Execute a command, optionally prefixed with  when  to  execute  it  (after_move  if  unspecified),
              separated by a ":".  Supported values of "WHEN" are the same as that of --use-postprocessor.  Same
              syntax as the output template can be used to pass any field as arguments to  the  command.   After
              download,  an  additional  field "filepath" that contains the final path of the downloaded file is
              also available, and if no fields are passed, %(filepath)q is appended to the end of  the  command.
              This option can be used multiple times

       --no-exec
              Remove any previously defined --exec

       --convert-subs FORMAT
              Convert  the  subtitles  to  another  format  (currently  supported:  srt,  vtt, ass, lrc) (Alias:
              --convert-subtitles)

       --convert-thumbnails FORMAT
              Convert the thumbnails to another format (currently supported: jpg, png, webp)

       --split-chapters
              Split video into multiple files based on internal chapters.  The "chapter:"  prefix  can  be  used
              with  "--paths"  and  "--output"  to  set  the  output  filename for the split files.  See "OUTPUT
              TEMPLATE" for details

       --no-split-chapters
              Do not split video based on chapters (default)

       --remove-chapters REGEX
              Remove chapters whose title matches the given regular expression.  Time ranges prefixed  by  a  ""
              can  also  be  used  in  place  of  chapters  to remove the specified range. Eg: --remove-chapters
              "10:15-15:00" --remove-chapters "intro".  This option can be used multiple times

       --no-remove-chapters
              Do not remove any chapters from the file (default)

       --force-keyframes-at-cuts
              Force keyframes around the chapters before removing/splitting them.  Requires a re-encode and thus
              is very slow, but the resulting video may have fewer artifacts around the cuts

       --no-force-keyframes-at-cuts
              Do not force keyframes around the chapters when cutting/splitting (default)

       --use-postprocessor NAME[:ARGS]
              The (case sensitive) name of plugin postprocessors to be enabled, and (optionally) arguments to be
              passed to it, separated by a colon ":".  ARGS are a semicolon ";" delimited  list  of  NAME=VALUE.
              The  "when" argument determines when the postprocessor is invoked.  It can be one of "pre_process"
              (after video extraction), "after_filter" (after video passes  filter),  "before_dl"  (before  each
              video  download),  "post_process" (after each video download; default), "after_move" (after moving
              video file to it's final locations), "after_video" (after downloading and processing  all  formats
              of  a  video),  or "playlist" (at end of playlist).  This option can be used multiple times to add
              different postprocessors

   SponsorBlock Options:
       Make chapter entries for, or remove various  segments  (sponsor,  introductions,  etc.)  from  downloaded
       YouTube videos using the SponsorBlock API (https://sponsor.ajay.app)

       --sponsorblock-mark CATS
              SponsorBlock  categories  to  create  chapters for, separated by commas.  Available categories are
              all,  default(=all),   sponsor,   intro,   outro,   selfpromo,   preview,   filler,   interaction,
              music_offtopic,  poi_highlight.  You can prefix the category with a "-" to exempt it.  See [1] for
              description    of    the     categories.      Eg:     --sponsorblock-mark     all,-preview     [1]
              https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/w/Segment_Categories

       --sponsorblock-remove CATS
              SponsorBlock  categories to be removed from the video file, separated by commas.  If a category is
              present in both mark and remove, remove takes precedence.  The syntax and available categories are
              the   same   as  for  --sponsorblock-mark  except  that  "default"  refers  to  "all,-filler"  and
              poi_highlight is not available

       --sponsorblock-chapter-title TEMPLATE
              The title template for SponsorBlock chapters created by --sponsorblock-mark.  The same  syntax  as
              the  output  template  is  used, but the only available fields are start_time, end_time, category,
              categories, name, category_names.  Defaults to "[SponsorBlock]: %(category_names)l"

       --no-sponsorblock
              Disable both --sponsorblock-mark and --sponsorblock-remove

       --sponsorblock-api URL
              SponsorBlock API location, defaults to https://sponsor.ajay.app

   Extractor Options:
       --extractor-retries RETRIES
              Number of retries for known extractor errors (default is 3), or "infinite"

       --allow-dynamic-mpd
              Process dynamic DASH manifests (default) (Alias: --no-ignore-dynamic-mpd)

       --ignore-dynamic-mpd
              Do not process dynamic DASH manifests (Alias: --no-allow-dynamic-mpd)

       --hls-split-discontinuity
              Split HLS playlists to different formats at discontinuities such as ad breaks

       --no-hls-split-discontinuity
              Do not split HLS playlists to different formats at discontinuities such as ad breaks (default)

       --extractor-args KEY:ARGS
              Pass these arguments to the extractor.  See "EXTRACTOR ARGUMENTS" for details.  You can  use  this
              option multiple times to give arguments for different extractors

CONFIGURATION

       You  can  configure  yt-dlp  by  placing  any supported command line option to a configuration file.  The
       configuration is loaded from the following locations:

       1. Main Configuration: The file given by --config-location

       2. Portable Configuration: yt-dlp.conf in the same directory as the bundled binary.  If you  are  running
          from source-code (<root dir>/yt_dlp/__main__.py), the root directory is used instead.

       3. Home  Configuration:  yt-dlp.conf in the home path given by -P, or in the current directory if no such
          path is given

       4. User Configuration:

           • %XDG_CONFIG_HOME%/yt-dlp/config (recommended on Linux/macOS)

           • %XDG_CONFIG_HOME%/yt-dlp.conf

           • %APPDATA%/yt-dlp/config (recommended on Windows)

           • %APPDATA%/yt-dlp/config.txt

           • ~/yt-dlp.conf~/yt-dlp.conf.txt %XDG_CONFIG_HOME% defaults to ~/.config  if  undefined.   On  windows,  %APPDATA%
             generally  points  to  C:\Users\<user  name>\AppData\Roaming  and  ~  points  to %HOME% if present,
             %USERPROFILE% (generally C:\Users\<user name>), or %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%

       5. System Configuration: /etc/yt-dlp.conf

       For example, with the following configuration file yt-dlp will always extract the  audio,  not  copy  the
       mtime, use a proxy and save all videos under YouTube directory in your home directory:

              # Lines starting with # are comments

              # Always extract audio
              -x

              # Do not copy the mtime
              --no-mtime

              # Use this proxy
              --proxy 127.0.0.1:3128

              # Save all videos under YouTube directory in your home directory
              -o ~/YouTube/%(title)s.%(ext)s

       Note  that  options  in configuration file are just the same options aka switches used in regular command
       line calls; thus there must be no whitespace after - or --, e.g.  -o or --proxy but not - o or -- proxy.

       You can use --ignore-config if you want to disable all configuration files for a particular  yt-dlp  run.
       If  --ignore-config is found inside any configuration file, no further configuration will be loaded.  For
       example, having the option in the portable configuration file prevents loading of home, user, and  system
       configurations.  Additionally, (for backward compatibility) if --ignore-config is found inside the system
       configuration file, the user configuration is not loaded.

   Authentication with .netrc file
       You may also want to configure automatic credentials storage for extractors that  support  authentication
       (by  providing  login  and  password  with --username and --password) in order not to pass credentials as
       command line arguments on every yt-dlp execution and prevent tracking plain text passwords in  the  shell
       command  history.   You can achieve this using a .netrc file (https://stackoverflow.com/tags/.netrc/info)
       on a per extractor basis.  For that you will need  to  create  a  .netrc  file  in  --netrc-location  and
       restrict permissions to read/write by only you:

              touch $HOME/.netrc
              chmod a-rwx,u+rw $HOME/.netrc

       After  that you can add credentials for an extractor in the following format, where extractor is the name
       of the extractor in lowercase:

              machine <extractor> login <username> password <password>

       For example:

              machine youtube login myaccount@gmail.com password my_youtube_password
              machine twitch login my_twitch_account_name password my_twitch_password

       To activate authentication with the .netrc file you should pass --netrc to yt-dlp  or  place  it  in  the
       configuration file.

       The  default  location  of  the  .netrc  file is $HOME (~) in UNIX.  On Windows, it is %HOME% if present,
       %USERPROFILE% (generally C:\Users\<user name>) or %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%

OUTPUT TEMPLATE

       The -o option is used to indicate a template for the output file names while -P option is used to specify
       the path each type of file should be saved to.

       The simplest usage of -o is not to set any template arguments when downloading a single file, like in yt-
       dlp -o funny_video.flv "https://some/video" (hard-coding file extension like this is not recommended  and
       could break some post-processing).

       It  may  however  also  contain special sequences that will be replaced when downloading each video.  The
       special   sequences   may   be   formatted   according   to   Python   string    formatting    operations
       (https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#printf-style-string-formatting).   For example, %(NAME)s
       or %(NAME)05d.  To clarify, that is a percent symbol followed by  a  name  in  parentheses,  followed  by
       formatting operations.

       The  field  names  themselves (the part inside the parenthesis) can also have some special formatting: 1.
       Object traversal: The dictionaries and lists available in metadata can be traversed by using  a  .  (dot)
       separator.    You  can  also  do  python  slicing  using  :.   Eg:  %(tags.0)s,  %(subtitles.en.-1.ext)s,
       %(id.3:7:-1)s, %(formats.:.format_id)s.  %()s refers to the entire infodict.  Note that  all  the  fields
       that become available using this method are not listed below.  Use -j to see such fields

       1. Addition:  Addition  and  subtraction  of  numeric fields can be done using + and - respectively.  Eg:
          %(playlist_index+10)03d, %(n_entries+1-playlist_index)d

       2. Date/time  Formatting:  Date/time  fields  can  be  formatted   according   to   strftime   formatting
          (https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-format-codes)  by specifying it
          separated from the  field  name  using  a  >.   Eg:  %(duration>%H-%M-%S)s,  %(upload_date>%Y-%m-%d)s,
          %(epoch-3600>%H-%M-%S)s

       3. Alternatives:    Alternate    fields    can    be    specified    separated    with    a    ,.     Eg:
          %(release_date>%Y,upload_date>%Y|Unknown)s

       4. Replacement: A replacement value can specified using a & separator.  If the field is not  empty,  this
          replacement  value  will  be  used  instead of the actual field content.  This is done after alternate
          fields are considered; thus the replacement is used if any of the alternative fields is not empty.

       5. Default: A literal default value can be specified for when the field is empty  using  a  |  separator.
          This overrides --output-na-template.  Eg: %(uploader|Unknown)s

       6. More Conversions: In addition to the normal format types diouxXeEfFgGcrs, B, j, l, q, D, S can be used
          for converting to Bytes, json (flag # for pretty-printing), a comma separated  list  (flag  #  for  \n
          newline-separated),  a  string  quoted  for  the  terminal  (flag  #  to  split  a list into different
          arguments), to add Decimal suffixes (Eg: 10M) (flag # to use 1024  as  factor),  and  to  Sanitize  as
          filename (flag # for restricted), respectively

       7. Unicode   normalization:   The   format   type   U   can   be   used  for  NFC  unicode  normalization
          (https://docs.python.org/3/library/unicodedata.html#unicodedata.normalize).  The alternate  form  flag
          (#) changes the normalization to NFD and the conversion flag + can be used for NFKC/NFKD compatibility
          equivalence normalization.  Eg: %(title)+.100U is NFKC

       To summarize, the general syntax for a field is:

              %(name[.keys][addition][>strf][,alternate][&replacement][|default])[flags][width][.precision][length]type

       Additionally, you can set different output templates for the various metadata files separately  from  the
       general  output  template by specifying the type of file followed by the template separated by a colon :.
       The different file  types  supported  are  subtitle,  thumbnail,  description,  annotation  (deprecated),
       infojson,   link,   pl_thumbnail,  pl_description,  pl_infojson,  chapter,  pl_video.   For  example,  -o
       "%(title)s.%(ext)s" -o "thumbnail:%(title)s\%(title)s.%(ext)s" will put the thumbnails in a  folder  with
       the  same  name  as  the video.  If any of the templates is empty, that type of file will not be written.
       Eg: --write-thumbnail -o "thumbnail:" will write thumbnails only for playlists and not for video.

       The available fields are:

       • id (string): Video identifier

       • title (string): Video title

       • fulltitle (string): Video title ignoring live timestamp and generic title

       • url (string): Video URL

       • ext (string): Video filename extension

       • alt_title (string): A secondary title of the video

       • description (string): The description of the video

       • display_id (string): An alternative identifier for the video

       • uploader (string): Full name of the video uploader

       • license (string): License name the video is licensed under

       • creator (string): The creator of the video

       • timestamp (numeric): UNIX timestamp of the moment the video became available

       • upload_date (string): Video upload date in UTC (YYYYMMDD)

       • release_timestamp (numeric): UNIX timestamp of the moment the video was released

       • release_date (string): The date (YYYYMMDD) when the video was released in UTC

       • modified_timestamp (numeric): UNIX timestamp of the moment the video was last modified

       • modified_date (string): The date (YYYYMMDD) when the video was last modified in UTC

       • uploader_id (string): Nickname or id of the video uploader

       • channel (string): Full name of the channel the video is uploaded on

       • channel_id (string): Id of the channel

       • channel_follower_count (numeric): Number of followers of the channel

       • location (string): Physical location where the video was filmed

       • duration (numeric): Length of the video in seconds

       • duration_string (string): Length of the video (HH:mm:ss)

       • view_count (numeric): How many users have watched the video on the platform

       • like_count (numeric): Number of positive ratings of the video

       • dislike_count (numeric): Number of negative ratings of the video

       • repost_count (numeric): Number of reposts of the video

       • average_rating (numeric): Average rating give by users, the scale used depends on the webpage

       • comment_count (numeric): Number of comments on the  video  (For  some  extractors,  comments  are  only
         downloaded at the end, and so this field cannot be used)

       • age_limit (numeric): Age restriction for the video (years)

       • live_status (string): One of "is_live", "was_live", "is_upcoming", "not_live"

       • is_live (boolean): Whether this video is a live stream or a fixed-length video

       • was_live (boolean): Whether this video was originally a live stream

       • playable_in_embed (string): Whether this video is allowed to play in embedded players on other sites

       • availability (string): Whether the video is "private", "premium_only", "subscriber_only", "needs_auth",
         "unlisted" or "public"

       • start_time (numeric): Time in seconds where the reproduction should start, as specified in the URL

       • end_time (numeric): Time in seconds where the reproduction should end, as specified in the URL

       • format (string): A human-readable description of the format

       • format_id (string): Format code specified by --format

       • format_note (string): Additional info about the format

       • width (numeric): Width of the video

       • height (numeric): Height of the video

       • resolution (string): Textual description of width and height

       • tbr (numeric): Average bitrate of audio and video in KBit/s

       • abr (numeric): Average audio bitrate in KBit/s

       • acodec (string): Name of the audio codec in use

       • asr (numeric): Audio sampling rate in Hertz

       • vbr (numeric): Average video bitrate in KBit/s

       • fps (numeric): Frame rate

       • dynamic_range (string): The dynamic range of the video

       • vcodec (string): Name of the video codec in use

       • container (string): Name of the container format

       • filesize (numeric): The number of bytes, if known in advance

       • filesize_approx (numeric): An estimate for the number of bytes

       • protocol (string): The protocol that will be used for the actual download

       • extractor (string): Name of the extractor

       • extractor_key (string): Key name of the extractor

       • epoch (numeric): Unix epoch of when the information extraction was completed

       • autonumber (numeric): Number that will be increased with each download, starting at --autonumber-start

       • video_autonumber (numeric): Number that will be increased with each video

       • n_entries (numeric): Total number of extracted items in the playlist

       • playlist_id (string): Identifier of the playlist that contains the video

       • playlist_title (string): Name of the playlist that contains the video

       • playlist (string): playlist_id or playlist_title

       • playlist_count (numeric): Total number of items in the playlist.  May not be known if  entire  playlist
         is not extracted

       • playlist_index  (numeric):  Index  of the video in the playlist padded with leading zeros according the
         final index

       • playlist_autonumber (numeric): Position of the video in the playlist download queue padded with leading
         zeros according to the total length of the playlist

       • playlist_uploader (string): Full name of the playlist uploader

       • playlist_uploader_id (string): Nickname or id of the playlist uploader

       • webpage_url  (string): A URL to the video webpage which if given to yt-dlp should allow to get the same
         result again

       • webpage_url_basename (string): The basename of the webpage URL

       • webpage_url_domain (string): The domain of the webpage URL

       • original_url (string): The URL given by the user (or same as webpage_url for playlist entries)

       Available for the video that belongs to some logical chapter or section:

       • chapter (string): Name or title of the chapter the video belongs to

       • chapter_number (numeric): Number of the chapter the video belongs to

       • chapter_id (string): Id of the chapter the video belongs to

       Available for the video that is an episode of some series or programme:

       • series (string): Title of the series or programme the video episode belongs to

       • season (string): Title of the season the video episode belongs to

       • season_number (numeric): Number of the season the video episode belongs to

       • season_id (string): Id of the season the video episode belongs to

       • episode (string): Title of the video episode

       • episode_number (numeric): Number of the video episode within a season

       • episode_id (string): Id of the video episode

       Available for the media that is a track or a part of a music album:

       • track (string): Title of the track

       • track_number (numeric): Number of the track within an album or a disc

       • track_id (string): Id of the track

       • artist (string): Artist(s) of the track

       • genre (string): Genre(s) of the track

       • album (string): Title of the album the track belongs to

       • album_type (string): Type of the album

       • album_artist (string): List of all artists appeared on the album

       • disc_number (numeric): Number of the disc or other physical medium the track belongs to

       • release_year (numeric): Year (YYYY) when the album was released

       Available for chapter: prefix when using --split-chapters for videos with internal chapters:

       • section_title (string): Title of the chapter

       • section_number (numeric): Number of the chapter within the file

       • section_start (numeric): Start time of the chapter in seconds

       • section_end (numeric): End time of the chapter in seconds

       Available only when used in --print:

       • urls (string): The URLs of all requested formats, one in each line

       • filename (string): Name of the video file.  Note that the actual filename may be different due to post-
         processing.  Use --exec echo to get the name after all postprocessing is complete

       • formats_table (table): The video format table as printed by --list-formats

       • thumbnails_table (table): The thumbnail format table as printed by --list-thumbnails

       • subtitles_table (table): The subtitle format table as printed by --list-subs

       • automatic_captions_table (table): The automatic subtitle format table as printed by --list-subs

       Available only in --sponsorblock-chapter-title:

       • start_time (numeric): Start time of the chapter in seconds

       • end_time (numeric): End time of the chapter in seconds

       • categories (list): The SponsorBlock categories the chapter belongs to

       • category (string): The smallest SponsorBlock category the chapter belongs to

       • category_names (list): Friendly names of the categories

       • name (string): Friendly name of the smallest category

       Each  aforementioned  sequence when referenced in an output template will be replaced by the actual value
       corresponding to the sequence name.  For example for -o %(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s and an  mp4  video  with
       title  yt-dlp test video and id BaW_jenozKc, this will result in a yt-dlp test video-BaW_jenozKc.mp4 file
       created in the current directory.

       Note that some of the sequences are not guaranteed to be  present  since  they  depend  on  the  metadata
       obtained by a particular extractor.  Such sequences will be replaced with placeholder value provided with
       --output-na-placeholder (NA by default).

       Tip: Look at the -j output to identify which fields are available for the particular URL

       For      numeric      sequences      you       can       use       numeric       related       formatting
       (https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#printf-style-string-formatting),       for      example,
       %(view_count)05d will result in a string with view count padded with zeros up to 5  characters,  like  in
       00042.

       Output  templates can also contain arbitrary hierarchical path, e.g.  -o "%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s
       - %(title)s.%(ext)s" which will result in downloading each video in a  directory  corresponding  to  this
       path template.  Any missing directory will be automatically created for you.

       To use percent literals in an output template use %%.  To output to stdout use -o -.

       The current default template is %(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s.

       In  some cases, you don't want special characters such as 中, spaces, or &, such as when transferring the
       downloaded filename to a Windows system or the filename through an 8bit-unsafe channel.  In these  cases,
       add the --restrict-filenames flag to get a shorter title.

   Output template examples
              $ yt-dlp --get-filename -o "test video.%(ext)s" BaW_jenozKc
              test video.webm    # Literal name with correct extension

              $ yt-dlp --get-filename -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" BaW_jenozKc
              youtube-dl test video ''_ä↭𝕐.webm    # All kinds of weird characters

              $ yt-dlp --get-filename -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" BaW_jenozKc --restrict-filenames
              youtube-dl_test_video_.webm    # Restricted file name

              # Download YouTube playlist videos in separate directory indexed by video order in a playlist
              $ yt-dlp -o "%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re"

              # Download YouTube playlist videos in separate directories according to their uploaded year
              $ yt-dlp -o "%(upload_date>%Y)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re"

              # Prefix playlist index with " - " separator, but only if it is available
              $ yt-dlp -o '%(playlist_index|)s%(playlist_index& - |)s%(title)s.%(ext)s' BaW_jenozKc "https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLinuxFoundation/playlists"

              # Download all playlists of YouTube channel/user keeping each playlist in separate directory:
              $ yt-dlp -o "%(uploader)s/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLinuxFoundation/playlists"

              # Download Udemy course keeping each chapter in separate directory under MyVideos directory in your home
              $ yt-dlp -u user -p password -P "~/MyVideos" -o "%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.udemy.com/java-tutorial"

              # Download entire series season keeping each series and each season in separate directory under C:/MyVideos
              $ yt-dlp -P "C:/MyVideos" -o "%(series)s/%(season_number)s - %(season)s/%(episode_number)s - %(episode)s.%(ext)s" "https://videomore.ru/kino_v_detalayah/5_sezon/367617"

              # Download video as "C:\MyVideos\uploader\title.ext", subtitles as "C:\MyVideos\subs\uploader\title.ext"
              # and put all temporary files in "C:\MyVideos\tmp"
              $ yt-dlp -P "C:/MyVideos" -P "temp:tmp" -P "subtitle:subs" -o "%(uploader)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" BaW_jenoz --write-subs

              # Download video as "C:\MyVideos\uploader\title.ext" and subtitles as "C:\MyVideos\uploader\subs\title.ext"
              $ yt-dlp -P "C:/MyVideos" -o "%(uploader)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" -o "subtitle:%(uploader)s/subs/%(title)s.%(ext)s" BaW_jenozKc --write-subs

              # Stream the video being downloaded to stdout
              $ yt-dlp -o - BaW_jenozKc

FORMAT SELECTION

       By  default,  yt-dlp tries to download the best available quality if you don't pass any options.  This is
       generally equivalent to using -f bestvideo*+bestaudio/best.  However, if multiple audiostreams is enabled
       (--audio-multistreams),  the default format changes to -f bestvideo+bestaudio/best.  Similarly, if ffmpeg
       is  unavailable,  or  if  you  use  yt-dlp  to  stream  to  stdout  (-o  -),  the  default   becomes   -f
       best/bestvideo+bestaudio.

       Deprecation  warning:  Latest versions of yt-dlp can stream multiple formats to the stdout simultaneously
       using ffmpeg.  So, in future versions, the default for this will be set to -f bv*+ba/b similar to  normal
       downloads.  If you want to preserve the -f b/bv+ba setting, it is recommended to explicitly specify it in
       the configuration options.

       The general syntax for format selection is -f FORMAT (or --format FORMAT)  where  FORMAT  is  a  selector
       expression, i.e.  an expression that describes format or formats you would like to download.

       The  simplest  case  is  requesting a specific format, for example with -f 22 you can download the format
       with format code equal to 22.  You can get the list of available format codes for particular video  using
       --list-formats or -F.  Note that these format codes are extractor specific.

       You  can also use a file extension (currently 3gp, aac, flv, m4a, mp3, mp4, ogg, wav, webm are supported)
       to download the best quality format of a particular file extension served as a single file, e.g.  -f webm
       will download the best quality format with the webm extension served as a single file.

       You can use -f - to interactively provide the format selector for each video

       You can also use special names to select particular edge case formats:

       • all: Select all formats separately

       • mergeall: Select and merge all formats (Must be used with --audio-multistreams, --video-multistreams or
         both)

       • b*, best*: Select the best quality format that contains either a video or an audio

       • b, best:  Select  the  best  quality  format  that  contains  both  video  and  audio.   Equivalent  to
         best*[vcodec!=none][acodec!=none]

       • bv, bestvideo: Select the best quality video-only format.  Equivalent to best*[acodec=none]

       • bv*,  bestvideo*:  Select  the  best  quality  format  that contains video.  It may also contain audio.
         Equivalent to best*[vcodec!=none]

       • ba, bestaudio: Select the best quality audio-only format.  Equivalent to best*[vcodec=none]

       • ba*, bestaudio*: Select the best quality format that  contains  audio.   It  may  also  contain  video.
         Equivalent      to      best*[acodec!=none]     (Do     not     use!     (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-
         dlp/issues/979#issuecomment-919629354))

       • w*, worst*: Select the worst quality format that contains either a video or an audio

       • w, worst: Select the  worst  quality  format  that  contains  both  video  and  audio.   Equivalent  to
         worst*[vcodec!=none][acodec!=none]

       • wv, worstvideo: Select the worst quality video-only format.  Equivalent to worst*[acodec=none]

       • wv*,  worstvideo*:  Select  the  worst  quality format that contains video.  It may also contain audio.
         Equivalent to worst*[vcodec!=none]

       • wa, worstaudio: Select the worst quality audio-only format.  Equivalent to worst*[vcodec=none]

       • wa*, worstaudio*: Select the worst quality format that contains audio.   It  may  also  contain  video.
         Equivalent to worst*[acodec!=none]

       For  example,  to  download the worst quality video-only format you can use -f worstvideo.  It is however
       recommended not to use worst and related options.  When your format selector is worst, the  format  which
       is  worst  in  all  respects is selected.  Most of the time, what you actually want is the video with the
       smallest filesize instead.   So  it  is  generally  better  to  use  -S  +size  or  more  rigorously,  -S
       +size,+br,+res,+fps instead of -f worst.  See sorting formats for more details.

       You  can  select the n'th best format of a type by using best<type>.<n>.  For example, best.2 will select
       the 2nd best combined format.  Similarly, bv*.3 will select the 3rd best format  that  contains  a  video
       stream.

       If  you  want to download multiple videos and they don't have the same formats available, you can specify
       the order of preference using slashes.  Note that formats on  the  left  hand  side  are  preferred,  for
       example  -f  22/17/18  will download format 22 if it's available, otherwise it will download format 17 if
       it's available, otherwise it will download format 18 if it's available, otherwise it will  complain  that
       no suitable formats are available for download.

       If  you  want to download several formats of the same video use a comma as a separator, e.g.  -f 22,17,18
       will download all these three formats, of course if they are available.  Or a more sophisticated  example
       combined with the precedence feature: -f 136/137/mp4/bestvideo,140/m4a/bestaudio.

       You can merge the video and audio of multiple formats into a single file using -f <format1>+<format2>+...
       (requires ffmpeg installed), for example -f bestvideo+bestaudio will download the best video-only format,
       the best audio-only format and mux them together with ffmpeg.

       Deprecation  warning:  Since  the below described behavior is complex and counter-intuitive, this will be
       removed and multistreams will be enabled by default in the future.  A new operator will be instead  added
       to limit formats to single audio/video

       Unless  --video-multistreams  is  used, all formats with a video stream except the first one are ignored.
       Similarly, unless --audio-multistreams is used, all formats with an audio stream except the first one are
       ignored.    For  example,  -f  bestvideo+best+bestaudio  --video-multistreams  --audio-multistreams  will
       download and merge all 3 given formats.  The resulting file  will  have  2  video  streams  and  2  audio
       streams.   But -f bestvideo+best+bestaudio --no-video-multistreams will download and merge only bestvideo
       and bestaudio.  best is ignored since another format containing a video stream  (bestvideo)  has  already
       been  selected.   The  order  of  the  formats  is  therefore  important.   -f best+bestaudio --no-audio-
       multistreams will download and merge both formats while -f  bestaudio+best  --no-audio-multistreams  will
       ignore best and download only bestaudio.

   Filtering Formats
       You can also filter the video formats by putting a condition in brackets, as in -f "best[height=720]" (or
       -f "[filesize>10M]").

       The following numeric meta fields can be used with comparisons <, <=, >, >=, = (equals), != (not equals):

       • filesize: The number of bytes, if known in advance

       • width: Width of the video, if known

       • height: Height of the video, if known

       • tbr: Average bitrate of audio and video in KBit/s

       • abr: Average audio bitrate in KBit/s

       • vbr: Average video bitrate in KBit/s

       • asr: Audio sampling rate in Hertz

       • fps: Frame rate

       Also filtering work for comparisons = (equals), ^= (starts with),  $=  (ends  with),  *=  (contains),  ~=
       (matches regex) and following string meta fields:

       • ext: File extension

       • acodec: Name of the audio codec in use

       • vcodec: Name of the video codec in use

       • container: Name of the container format

       • protocol:  The protocol that will be used for the actual download, lower-case (http, https, rtsp, rtmp,
         rtmpe, mms, f4m, ism, http_dash_segments, m3u8, or m3u8_native)

       • format_id: A short description of the format

       • language: Language code

       Any string comparison may be prefixed with negation ! in order to produce an  opposite  comparison,  e.g.
       !*=  (does  not  contain).  The comparand of a string comparison needs to be quoted with either double or
       single quotes if it contains spaces or special characters other than ._-.

       Note that none of the aforementioned meta fields are guaranteed to be present since this  solely  depends
       on  the  metadata obtained by particular extractor, i.e.  the metadata offered by the website.  Any other
       field made available by the extractor can also be used for filtering.

       Formats for which the value is not known are excluded unless you  put  a  question  mark  (?)  after  the
       operator.   You can combine format filters, so -f "[height<=?720][tbr>500]" selects up to 720p videos (or
       videos where the height is not known) with a bitrate of at least  500  KBit/s.   You  can  also  use  the
       filters  with  all  to  download all formats that satisfy the filter.  For example, -f "all[vcodec=none]"
       selects all audio-only formats.

       Format selectors can also be grouped using parentheses, for example if you want to download the best pre-
       merged mp4 and webm formats with a height lower than 480 you can use -f "(mp4,webm)[height<480]".

   Sorting Formats
       You  can  change  the  criteria  for  being considered the best by using -S (--format-sort).  The general
       format for this is --format-sort field1,field2....

       The available fields are:

       • hasvid: Gives priority to formats that has a video stream

       • hasaud: Gives priority to formats that has a audio stream

       • ie_pref: The format preference

       • lang: The language preference

       • quality: The quality of the format

       • source: The preference of the source

       • proto: Protocol used for download (https/ftps  >  http/ftp  >  m3u8_native/m3u8  >  http_dash_segments>
         websocket_frag > mms/rtsp > f4f/f4m)

       • vcodec: Video Codec (av01 > vp9.2 > vp9 > h265 > h264 > vp8 > h263 > theora > other)

       • acodec:  Audio  Codec  (flac/alac  >  wav/aiff  > opus > vorbis > aac > mp4a > mp3 > eac3 > ac3 > dts >
         other)

       • codec: Equivalent to vcodec,acodec

       • vext: Video Extension (mp4 > webm > flv > other).  If --prefer-free-formats is used, webm is preferred.

       • aext: Audio Extension (m4a > aac > mp3 > ogg > opus > webm > other).  If --prefer-free-formats is used,
         the order changes to opus > ogg > webm > m4a > mp3 > aac.

       • ext: Equivalent to vext,aext

       • filesize: Exact filesize, if known in advance

       • fs_approx: Approximate filesize calculated from the manifests

       • size: Exact filesize if available, otherwise approximate filesize

       • height: Height of video

       • width: Width of video

       • res: Video resolution, calculated as the smallest dimension.

       • fps: Framerate of video

       • hdr: The dynamic range of the video (DV > HDR12 > HDR10+ > HDR10 > HLG > SDR)

       • tbr: Total average bitrate in KBit/s

       • vbr: Average video bitrate in KBit/s

       • abr: Average audio bitrate in KBit/s

       • br: Equivalent to using tbr,vbr,abr

       • asr: Audio sample rate in Hz

       Deprecation warning: Many of these fields have (currently undocumented) aliases, that may be removed in a
       future version.  It is recommended to use only the documented field names.

       All fields, unless specified otherwise, are sorted in descending order.   To  reverse  this,  prefix  the
       field  with  a  +.  Eg: +res prefers format with the smallest resolution.  Additionally, you can suffix a
       preferred value for the fields, separated by a :.  Eg: res:720 prefers larger videos, but no larger  than
       720p  and  the  smallest video if there are no videos less than 720p.  For codec and ext, you can provide
       two preferred values, the first for video and the second for audio.  Eg:  +codec:avc:m4a  (equivalent  to
       +vcodec:avc,+acodec:m4a) sets the video codec preference to h264 > h265 > vp9 > vp9.2 > av01 > vp8 > h263
       > theora and audio codec preference to mp4a > aac > vorbis > opus > mp3 > ac3 > dts.  You can  also  make
       the  sorting  prefer  the  nearest  values  to the provided by using ~ as the delimiter.  Eg: filesize~1G
       prefers the format with filesize closest to 1 GiB.

       The fields hasvid and ie_pref are always given highest priority in sorting,  irrespective  of  the  user-
       defined  order.   This  behaviour  can  be  changed  by using --format-sort-force.  Apart from these, the
       default order  used  is:  lang,quality,res,fps,hdr:12,codec:vp9.2,size,br,asr,proto,ext,hasaud,source,id.
       The extractors may override this default order, but they cannot override the user-provided order.

       Note  that  the  default  has codec:vp9.2; i.e.  av1 is not preferred.  Similarly, the default for hdr is
       hdr:12; i.e.  dolby vision is not preferred.  These choices are made since DV and AV1 formats are not yet
       fully  compatible with most devices.  This may be changed in the future as more devices become capable of
       smoothly playing back these formats.

       If your format selector is worst, the last item is selected after sorting.  This means it will select the
       format  that  is  worst  in all respects.  Most of the time, what you actually want is the video with the
       smallest filesize instead.  So it is generally better to use -f best -S +size,+br,+res,+fps.

       Tip: You can use the -v -F to see how the formats have been sorted (worst to best).

   Format Selection examples
              # Download and merge the best video-only format and the best audio-only format,
              # or download the best combined format if video-only format is not available
              $ yt-dlp -f "bv+ba/b"

              # Download best format that contains video,
              # and if it doesn't already have an audio stream, merge it with best audio-only format
              $ yt-dlp -f "bv*+ba/b"

              # Same as above
              $ yt-dlp

              # Download the best video-only format and the best audio-only format without merging them
              # For this case, an output template should be used since
              # by default, bestvideo and bestaudio will have the same file name.
              $ yt-dlp -f "bv,ba" -o "%(title)s.f%(format_id)s.%(ext)s"

              # Download and merge the best format that has a video stream,
              # and all audio-only formats into one file
              $ yt-dlp -f "bv*+mergeall[vcodec=none]" --audio-multistreams

              # Download and merge the best format that has a video stream,
              # and the best 2 audio-only formats into one file
              $ yt-dlp -f "bv*+ba+ba.2" --audio-multistreams

              # The following examples show the old method (without -S) of format selection
              # and how to use -S to achieve a similar but (generally) better result

              # Download the worst video available (old method)
              $ yt-dlp -f "wv*+wa/w"

              # Download the best video available but with the smallest resolution
              $ yt-dlp -S "+res"

              # Download the smallest video available
              $ yt-dlp -S "+size,+br"

              # Download the best mp4 video available, or the best video if no mp4 available
              $ yt-dlp -f "bv*[ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[ext=mp4] / bv*+ba/b"

              # Download the best video with the best extension
              # (For video, mp4 > webm > flv. For audio, m4a > aac > mp3 ...)
              $ yt-dlp -S "ext"

              # Download the best video available but no better than 480p,
              # or the worst video if there is no video under 480p
              $ yt-dlp -f "bv*[height<=480]+ba/b[height<=480] / wv*+ba/w"

              # Download the best video available with the largest height but no better than 480p,
              # or the best video with the smallest resolution if there is no video under 480p
              $ yt-dlp -S "height:480"

              # Download the best video available with the largest resolution but no better than 480p,
              # or the best video with the smallest resolution if there is no video under 480p
              # Resolution is determined by using the smallest dimension.
              # So this works correctly for vertical videos as well
              $ yt-dlp -S "res:480"

              # Download the best video (that also has audio) but no bigger than 50 MB,
              # or the worst video (that also has audio) if there is no video under 50 MB
              $ yt-dlp -f "b[filesize<50M] / w"

              # Download largest video (that also has audio) but no bigger than 50 MB,
              # or the smallest video (that also has audio) if there is no video under 50 MB
              $ yt-dlp -f "b" -S "filesize:50M"

              # Download best video (that also has audio) that is closest in size to 50 MB
              $ yt-dlp -f "b" -S "filesize~50M"

              # Download best video available via direct link over HTTP/HTTPS protocol,
              # or the best video available via any protocol if there is no such video
              $ yt-dlp -f "(bv*+ba/b)[protocol^=http][protocol!*=dash] / (bv*+ba/b)"

              # Download best video available via the best protocol
              # (https/ftps > http/ftp > m3u8_native > m3u8 > http_dash_segments ...)
              $ yt-dlp -S "proto"

              # Download the best video with either h264 or h265 codec,
              # or the best video if there is no such video
              $ yt-dlp -f "(bv*[vcodec~='^((he|a)vc|h26[45])']+ba) / (bv*+ba/b)"

              # Download the best video with best codec no better than h264,
              # or the best video with worst codec if there is no such video
              $ yt-dlp -S "codec:h264"

              # Download the best video with worst codec no worse than h264,
              # or the best video with best codec if there is no such video
              $ yt-dlp -S "+codec:h264"

              # More complex examples

              # Download the best video no better than 720p preferring framerate greater than 30,
              # or the worst video (still preferring framerate greater than 30) if there is no such video
              $ yt-dlp -f "((bv*[fps>30]/bv*)[height<=720]/(wv*[fps>30]/wv*)) + ba / (b[fps>30]/b)[height<=720]/(w[fps>30]/w)"

              # Download the video with the largest resolution no better than 720p,
              # or the video with the smallest resolution available if there is no such video,
              # preferring larger framerate for formats with the same resolution
              $ yt-dlp -S "res:720,fps"

              # Download the video with smallest resolution no worse than 480p,
              # or the video with the largest resolution available if there is no such video,
              # preferring better codec and then larger total bitrate for the same resolution
              $ yt-dlp -S "+res:480,codec,br"

MODIFYING METADATA

       The metadata obtained by the extractors can be  modified  by  using  --parse-metadata  and  --replace-in-
       metadata

       --replace-in-metadata  FIELDS  REGEX  REPLACE  is used to replace text in any metadata field using python
       regular expression (https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax).  Backreferences
       (https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html?highlight=backreferences#re.sub)  can  be  used in the replace
       string for advanced use.

       The general syntax of --parse-metadata FROM:TO is to give the name of a field or an  output  template  to
       extract  data  from,  and the format to interpret it as, separated by a colon :.  Either a python regular
       expression  (https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax)  with   named   capture
       groups  or  a  similar syntax to the output template (only %(field)s formatting is supported) can be used
       for TO.  The option can be used multiple times to parse and modify various fields.

       Note that any field created by this can be used in the output template and will  also  affect  the  media
       file's metadata added when using --add-metadata.

       This  option  also  has a few special uses: * You can download an additional URL based on the metadata of
       the currently downloaded video.  To do this, set the field additional_urls to the URL that  you  want  to
       download.    Eg:   --parse-metadata  "description:(?P<additional_urls>https?://www\.vimeo\.com/\d+)  will
       download the first vimeo video found in the description * You can use this to change the metadata that is
       embedded  in  the  media file.  To do this, set the value of the corresponding field with a meta_ prefix.
       For example, any value you set to meta_description field will be added to the description  field  in  the
       file.   For  example,  you  can  use this to set a different "description" and "synopsis".  To modify the
       metadata of individual streams, use the meta<n>_ prefix (Eg: meta1_language).  Any value set to the meta_
       field will overwrite all default values.

       Note:  Metadata  modification  happens before format selection, post-extraction and other post-processing
       operations.  Some fields may be added or changed during these steps, overriding your changes.

       For reference, these are the fields yt-dlp adds by default to the file metadata:

       Metadata fields           From
       ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
       title                     track or title
       date                      upload_date
       description, synopsis     description
       purl, comment             webpage_url
       track                     track_number
       artist                    artist,    creator,    uploader    or
                                 uploader_id
       genre                     genre

       album                     album
       album_artist              album_artist
       disc                      disc_number
       show                      series
       season_number             season_number
       episode_id                episode or episode_id
       episode_sort              episode_number
       language of each stream   the format's language

       Note: The file format may not support some of these fields

   Modifying metadata examples
              # Interpret the title as "Artist - Title"
              $ yt-dlp --parse-metadata "title:%(artist)s - %(title)s"

              # Regex example
              $ yt-dlp --parse-metadata "description:Artist - (?P<artist>.+)"

              # Set title as "Series name S01E05"
              $ yt-dlp --parse-metadata "%(series)s S%(season_number)02dE%(episode_number)02d:%(title)s"

              # Prioritize uploader as the "artist" field in video metadata
              $ yt-dlp --parse-metadata "%(uploader|)s:%(meta_artist)s" --add-metadata

              # Set "comment" field in video metadata using description instead of webpage_url,
              # handling multiple lines correctly
              $ yt-dlp --parse-metadata "description:(?s)(?P<meta_comment>.+)" --add-metadata

              # Remove "formats" field from the infojson by setting it to an empty string
              $ yt-dlp --parse-metadata ":(?P<formats>)" -j

              # Replace all spaces and "_" in title and uploader with a `-`
              $ yt-dlp --replace-in-metadata "title,uploader" "[ _]" "-"

EXTRACTOR ARGUMENTS

       Some extractors accept additional arguments which can be passed using --extractor-args KEY:ARGS.  ARGS is
       a  ;  (semicolon)   separated   string   of   ARG=VAL1,VAL2.    Eg:   --extractor-args   "youtube:player-
       client=android_embedded,web;include_live_dash" --extractor-args "funimation:version=uncut"

       The following extractors use this feature:

   youtube
       • skip:  One  or  more  of  hls,  dash  or translated_subs to skip extraction of the m3u8 manifests, dash
         manifests and auto-translated subtitles respectively

       • player_client: Clients to extract video data from.  The main clients are  web,  android  and  ios  with
         variants  _music,  _embedded,  _embedscreen,  _creator  (Eg:  web_embedded);  and  mweb and tv_embedded
         (agegate bypass) with no variants.  By default,  android,web  is  used,  but  tv_embedded  and  creator
         variants  are  added  as  required  for  age-gated  videos.  Similarly the music variants are added for
         music.youtube.com urls.  You can use all to use all the clients, and default for the default clients.

       • player_skip: Skip some network requests that are generally needed for robust extraction.  One  or  more
         of  configs  (skip  client  configs), webpage (skip initial webpage), js (skip js player).  While these
         options can help reduce the number of requests needed or avoid some  rate-limiting,  they  could  cause
         some issues.  See #860 (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/860) for more details

       • include_live_dash:  Include  live  dash  formats  even  without  --live-from-start (These formats don't
         download properly)

       • comment_sort: top or new (default) - choose comment sorting mode (on YouTube's side)

       • max_comments: Limit the amount of comments to gather.  Comma-separated list  of  integers  representing
         max-comments,max-parents,max-replies,max-replies-per-thread.  Default is all,all,all,all

         • E.g.   all,all,1000,10  will  get  a maximum of 1000 replies total, with up to 10 replies per thread.
           1000,all,100 will get a maximum of 1000 comments, with a maximum of 100 replies total

   youtubetab (YouTube playlists, channels, feeds, etc.)
       • skip: One or more of webpage  (skip  initial  webpage  download),  authcheck  (allow  the  download  of
         playlists  requiring  authentication  when  no  initial webpage is downloaded.  This may cause unwanted
         behavior, see #1122 (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/1122) for more details)

       • approximate_date: Extract approximate upload_date in flat-playlist.  This may cause date-based  filters
         to be slightly off

   funimation
       • language: Languages to extract.  Eg: funimation:language=english,japanese

       • version: The video version to extract - uncut or simulcast

   crunchyroll
       • language: Languages to extract.  Eg: crunchyroll:language=jaJp

       • hardsub: Which hard-sub versions to extract.  Eg: crunchyroll:hardsub=None,enUS

   crunchyrollbeta
       • format:     Which     stream     type(s)     to     extract.      Default     is    adaptive_hls    Eg:
         crunchyrollbeta:format=vo_adaptive_hls

         • Potentially useful values include  adaptive_hls,  adaptive_dash,  vo_adaptive_hls,  vo_adaptive_dash,
           download_hls, trailer_hls, trailer_dash

       • hardsub:  Preference  order for which hardsub versions to extract.  Default is None (no hardsubs).  Eg:
         crunchyrollbeta:hardsub=en-US,None

   vikichannel
       • video_types: Types of videos to download - one or more of episodes, movies, clips, trailers

   niconico
       • segment_duration: Segment duration in milliseconds for HLS-DMC formats.  Use it at your own risk  since
         this feature may result in your account termination.

   youtubewebarchive
       • check_all: Try to check more at the cost of more requests.  One or more of thumbnails, captures

   gamejolt
       • comment_sort:  hot  (default),  you  (cookies  needed),  top,  new  -  choose  comment sorting mode (on
         GameJolt's side)

   hotstar
       • res: resolution to ignore - one or more of sd, hd, fhd

       • vcodec: vcodec to ignore - one or more of h264, h265, dvh265

       • dr: dynamic range to ignore - one or more of sdr, hdr10, dv

   tiktok
       • app_version: App version to call mobile APIs with - should  be  set  along  with  manifest_app_version.
         (e.g.  20.2.1)

       • manifest_app_version: Numeric app version to call mobile APIs with.  (e.g.  221)

   rokfinchannel
       • tab:   Which   tab   to  download.   One  of  new,  top,  videos,  podcasts,  streams,  stacks.   (E.g.
         rokfinchannel:tab=streams)

       NOTE: These options may be changed/removed in the future without concern for backward compatibility

INSTALLATION

       You can install yt-dlp using one of the following methods:

   Using the release binary
       You can simply download the correct binary file for your OS

       Note:  The  manpages,  shell   completion   files   etc.    are   available   in   the   source   tarball
       (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp.tar.gz)

       In UNIX-like OSes (MacOS, Linux, BSD), you can also install the same in one of the following ways:

              sudo curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
              sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

              sudo wget https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -O /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
              sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

              sudo aria2c https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp --dir /usr/local/bin -o yt-dlp
              sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

   With PIP (https://pypi.org/project/pip)
       You can install the PyPI package (https://pypi.org/project/yt-dlp) with:

              python3 -m pip install -U yt-dlp

       You can install without any of the optional dependencies using:

              python3 -m pip install --no-deps -U yt-dlp

       If you want to be on the cutting edge, you can also install the master branch with:

              python3 -m pip install --force-reinstall https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.tar.gz

       Note that on some systems, you may need to use py or python instead of python3

   With Homebrew (https://brew.sh)
       macOS or Linux users that are using Homebrew can also install it by:

              brew install yt-dlp/taps/yt-dlp

   UPDATE
       You can use yt-dlp -U to update if you are using the provided release

       If you installed with pip, simply re-run the same command that was used to install the program

       If you installed using Homebrew, run brew upgrade yt-dlp/taps/yt-dlp

   DEPENDENCIES
       Python versions 3.6+ (CPython and PyPy) are supported.  Other versions and implementations may or may not
       work correctly.

       While all the other dependencies are optional, ffmpeg and ffprobe are highly recommended

       • ffmpeg and ffprobe (https://www.ffmpeg.org) - Required for merging separate video and  audio  files  as
         well     as    for    various    post-processing    tasks.     License    depends    on    the    build
         (https://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html)

       • mutagen (https://github.com/quodlibet/mutagen)* - For embedding thumbnail in certain formats.  Licensed
         under GPLv2+ (https://github.com/quodlibet/mutagen/blob/master/COPYING)

       • pycryptodomex  (https://github.com/Legrandin/pycryptodome)*  -  For  decrypting AES-128 HLS streams and
         various            other            data.             Licensed            under            BSD-2-Clause
         (https://github.com/Legrandin/pycryptodome/blob/master/LICENSE.rst)

       • websockets (https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets)* - For downloading over websocket.  Licensed under
         BSD-3-Clause (https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets/blob/main/LICENSE)

       • secretstorage (https://github.com/mitya57/secretstorage)* -  For  accessing  the  Gnome  keyring  while
         decrypting    cookies   of   Chromium-based   browsers   on   Linux.    Licensed   under   BSD-3-Clause
         (https://github.com/mitya57/secretstorage/blob/master/LICENSE)

       • brotli (https://github.com/google/brotli)* or brotlicffi (https://github.com/python-hyper/brotlicffi) -
         Brotli  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotli)  content  encoding  support.   Both licensed under MIT 1
         (https://github.com/google/brotli/blob/master/LICENSE)          2           (https://github.com/python-
         hyper/brotlicffi/blob/master/LICENSE)

       • certifi  (https://github.com/certifi/python-certifi)*  -  Provides  Mozilla's  root certificate bundle.
         Licensed under MPLv2 (https://github.com/certifi/python-certifi/blob/master/LICENSE)

       • AtomicParsley  (https://github.com/wez/atomicparsley)  -  For  embedding  thumbnail   in   mp4/m4a   if
         mutagen/ffmpeg                cannot.                 Licensed               under               GPLv2+
         (https://github.com/wez/atomicparsley/blob/master/COPYING)

       • rtmpdump (http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu) - For downloading rtmp streams.   ffmpeg  will  be  used  as  a
         fallback.  Licensed under GPLv2+ (http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu)

       • mplayer (http://mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html) or mpv (https://mpv.io) - For downloading rstp streams.
         ffmpeg   will   be   used   as   a   fallback.    Licensed   under   GPLv2+    (https://github.com/mpv-
         player/mpv/blob/master/Copyright)

       • phantomjs  (https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs)  - Used in extractors where javascript needs to be run.
         Licensed under BSD-3-Clause (https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/blob/master/LICENSE.BSD)

       • sponskrub (https://github.com/faissaloo/SponSkrub) - For using the now  deprecated  sponskrub  options.
         Licensed under GPLv3+ (https://github.com/faissaloo/SponSkrub/blob/master/LICENCE.md)

       • Any external downloader that you want to use with --downloader

       To use or redistribute the dependencies, you must agree to their respective licensing terms.

       The  Windows  and MacOS standalone release binaries are already built with the python interpreter and all
       optional python packages (marked with *) included.

       Note: There are some regressions in newer ffmpeg versions that causes various issues when used  alongside
       yt-dlp.   Since  ffmpeg is such an important dependency, we provide custom builds (https://github.com/yt-
       dlp/FFmpeg-Builds#ffmpeg-static-auto-builds)  with  patches  for  these  issues  at  yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds
       (https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds).     See    the    readme    (https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-
       Builds#patches-applied) for details on the specific issues solved by these builds

   COMPILE
       For Windows: To build the Windows executable, you must have pyinstaller (and  any  of  yt-dlp's  optional
       dependencies if needed).  Once you have all the necessary dependencies installed, (optionally) build lazy
       extractors using devscripts/make_lazy_extractors.py, and then just run pyinst.py.  The executable will be
       built for the same architecture (32/64 bit) as the python used to build it.

              py -m pip install -U pyinstaller -r requirements.txt
              py devscripts/make_lazy_extractors.py
              py pyinst.py

       Note  that  pyinstaller  does  not  support (https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller#requirements-and-
       tested-platforms) Python installed from the Windows store without using a virtual environment

       For Unix: You will need the required build tools: python, make (GNU), pandoc, zip, pytest
       Then simply run make.  You can also run make yt-dlp instead to compile only the binary  without  updating
       any of the additional files

       Note:  In  either  platform, devscripts/update-version.py can be used to automatically update the version
       number

       You can also fork the project on github and run your fork's  build  workflow  to  automatically  build  a
       release

PLUGINS

       Plugins are loaded from <root-dir>/ytdlp_plugins/<type>/__init__.py; where <root-dir> is the directory of
       the binary (<root-dir>/yt-dlp), or the root directory of the module if  you  are  running  directly  from
       source-code (<root dir>/yt_dlp/__main__.py).  Plugins are currently not supported for the pip version

       Plugins  can  be of <type>s extractor or postprocessor.  Extractor plugins do not need to be enabled from
       the CLI and are automatically invoked when the input URL is suitable for it.  Postprocessor  plugins  can
       be invoked using --use-postprocessor NAME.

       See ytdlp_plugins for example plugins.

       Note  that all plugins are imported even if not invoked, and that there are no checks performed on plugin
       code.  Use plugins at your own risk and only if you trust the code

       If you are a plugin author, add ytdlp-plugins (https://github.com/topics/ytdlp-plugins)  as  a  topic  to
       your repository for discoverability

EMBEDDING YT-DLP

       yt-dlp  makes  the  best  effort  to be a good command-line program, and thus should be callable from any
       programming language.

       Your program should avoid parsing the normal stdout since they may change in  future  versions.   Instead
       they  should  use  options  such as -J, --print, --progress-template, --exec etc to create console output
       that you can reliably reproduce and parse.

       From a Python program, you can embed yt-dlp in a more powerful fashion, like this:

              from yt_dlp import YoutubeDL

              ydl_opts = {'format': 'bestaudio'}
              with YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
                  ydl.download(['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc'])

       Most likely, you'll want to use various options.  For a  list  of  options  available,  have  a  look  at
       yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py.

       Here's a more complete example demonstrating various functionality:

              import json
              import yt_dlp

              class MyLogger:
                  def debug(self, msg):
                      # For compatibility with youtube-dl, both debug and info are passed into debug
                      # You can distinguish them by the prefix '[debug] '
                      if msg.startswith('[debug] '):
                          pass
                      else:
                          self.info(msg)

                  def info(self, msg):
                      pass

                  def warning(self, msg):
                      pass

                  def error(self, msg):
                      print(msg)

              # ℹ️ See the docstring of yt_dlp.postprocessor.common.PostProcessor
              class MyCustomPP(yt_dlp.postprocessor.PostProcessor):
                  # ℹ️ See docstring of yt_dlp.postprocessor.common.PostProcessor.run
                  def run(self, info):
                      self.to_screen('Doing stuff')
                      return [], info

              # ℹ️ See "progress_hooks" in the docstring of yt_dlp.YoutubeDL
              def my_hook(d):
                  if d['status'] == 'finished':
                      print('Done downloading, now converting ...')

              def format_selector(ctx):
                  """ Select the best video and the best audio that won't result in an mkv.
                  This is just an example and does not handle all cases """

                  # formats are already sorted worst to best
                  formats = ctx.get('formats')[::-1]

                  # acodec='none' means there is no audio
                  best_video = next(f for f in formats
                                    if f['vcodec'] != 'none' and f['acodec'] == 'none')

                  # find compatible audio extension
                  audio_ext = {'mp4': 'm4a', 'webm': 'webm'}[best_video['ext']]
                  # vcodec='none' means there is no video
                  best_audio = next(f for f in formats if (
                      f['acodec'] != 'none' and f['vcodec'] == 'none' and f['ext'] == audio_ext))

                  yield {
                      # These are the minimum required fields for a merged format
                      'format_id': f'{best_video["format_id"]}+{best_audio["format_id"]}',
                      'ext': best_video['ext'],
                      'requested_formats': [best_video, best_audio],
                      # Must be + separated list of protocols
                      'protocol': f'{best_video["protocol"]}+{best_audio["protocol"]}'
                  }

              # ℹ️ See docstring of yt_dlp.YoutubeDL for a description of the options
              ydl_opts = {
                  'format': format_selector,
                  'postprocessors': [{
                      # Embed metadata in video using ffmpeg.
                      # ℹ️ See yt_dlp.postprocessor.FFmpegMetadataPP for the arguments it accepts
                      'key': 'FFmpegMetadata',
                      'add_chapters': True,
                      'add_metadata': True,
                  }],
                  'logger': MyLogger(),
                  'progress_hooks': [my_hook],
                  # Add custom headers
                  'http_headers': {'Referer': 'https://www.google.com'}
              }

              # ℹ️ See the public functions in yt_dlp.YoutubeDL for for other available functions.
              # Eg: "ydl.download", "ydl.download_with_info_file"
              with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
                  ydl.add_post_processor(MyCustomPP())
                  info = ydl.extract_info('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc')

                  # ℹ️ ydl.sanitize_info makes the info json-serializable
                  print(json.dumps(ydl.sanitize_info(info)))

       Tip:  If you are porting your code from youtube-dl to yt-dlp, one important point to look out for is that
       we do not guarantee the return value of YoutubeDL.extract_info to be json  serializable,  or  even  be  a
       dictionary.   It will be dictionary-like, but if you want to ensure it is a serializable dictionary, pass
       it through YoutubeDL.sanitize_info as shown in the example above

NEW FEATURES

       • Based     on     youtube-dl     2021.12.17     commit/6508688     (https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-
         dl/commit/6508688e88c83bb811653083db9351702cd39a6a)      (exceptions     (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-
         dlp/issues/21))  and  youtube-dlc  2020.11.11-3  commit/f9401f2   (https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-
         dlc/commit/f9401f2a91987068139c5f757b12fc711d4c0cee):  You get all the features and patches of youtube-
         dlc    (https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc)    in    addition    to    the    latest    youtube-dl
         (https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl)

       • SponsorBlock  Integration:  You  can  mark/remove  sponsor  sections in youtube videos by utilizing the
         SponsorBlock (https://sponsor.ajay.app) API

       • Format Sorting: The default format sorting options have been changed  so  that  higher  resolution  and
         better  codecs  will be now preferred instead of simply using larger bitrate.  Furthermore, you can now
         specify the sort order using -S.  This allows for much easier format selection than what is possible by
         simply using --format (examples)

       • Merged   with   animelover1984/youtube-dl:   You  get  most  of  the  features  and  improvements  from
         animelover1984/youtube-dl  (https://github.com/animelover1984/youtube-dl)  including  --write-comments,
         BiliBiliSearch, BilibiliChannel, Embedding thumbnail in mp4/ogg/opus, playlist infojson etc.  Note that
         the NicoNico livestreams are not available.   See  #31  (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/31)  for
         details.

       • Youtube improvements:

         • All  Feeds  (:ytfav,  :ytwatchlater,  :ytsubs,  :ythistory,  :ytrec)  and  private playlists supports
           downloading multiple pages of content

         • Search (ytsearch:, ytsearchdate:), search URLs and in-channel search works

         • Mixes supports downloading multiple pages of content

         • Some (but not all) age-gated content can be downloaded without cookies

         • Fix for n-sig based throttling (https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326)

         • Redirect channel's home URL automatically to /video to preserve the old behaviour

         • 255kbps audio is extracted (if available) from youtube music when premium cookies are given

         • Youtube   music   Albums,   channels   etc   can   be   downloaded   (except   self-uploaded    music
           (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/723))

         • Download livestreams from the start using --live-from-start (experimental)

       • Cookies  from  browser:  Cookies  can  be  automatically  extracted  from  all major web browsers using
         --cookies-from-browser BROWSER[+KEYRING][:PROFILE]

       • Split video by chapters: Videos can be split into multiple  files  based  on  chapters  using  --split-
         chapters

       • Multi-threaded  fragment  downloads:  Download  multiple fragments of m3u8/mpd videos in parallel.  Use
         --concurrent-fragments (-N) option to set the number of threads used

       • Aria2c with HLS/DASH: You can use aria2c as the external downloader for DASH(mpd) and HLS(m3u8) formats

       • New and fixed extractors: Many new extractors have been added and a lot  of  existing  ones  have  been
         fixed.  See the changelog or the list of supported sites

       • New MSOs: Philo, Spectrum, SlingTV, Cablevision, RCN

       • Subtitle  extraction  from  manifests:  Subtitles can be extracted from streaming media manifests.  See
         commit/be6202f  (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/be6202f12b97858b9d716e608394b51065d0419f)  for
         details

       • Multiple  paths  and  output  templates: You can give different output templates and download paths for
         different types of files.  You can also set a temporary path where intermediary files are downloaded to
         using --paths (-P)

       • Portable   Configuration:  Configuration  files  are  automatically  loaded  from  the  home  and  root
         directories.  See configuration for details

       • Output template improvements: Output templates can now  have  date-time  formatting,  numeric  offsets,
         object traversal etc.  See output template for details.  Even more advanced operations can also be done
         with the help of --parse-metadata and --replace-in-metadata

       • Other new options: Many new options have been added such  as  --concat-playlist,  --print,  --wait-for-
         video,   --sleep-requests,   --convert-thumbnails,   --write-link,  --force-download-archive,  --force-
         overwrites, --break-on-reject etc

       • Improvements: Regex and other operators in --format/--match-filter, multiple  --postprocessor-args  and
         --downloader-args,  faster  archive  checking,  more format selection options, merge multi-video/audio,
         multiple --config-locations, --exec at different stages, etc

       • Plugins: Extractors and PostProcessors can be loaded from an external file.  See plugins for details

       • Self-updater: The releases can be updated using yt-dlp -U

       See changelog or commits (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commits) for the full list of changes

   Differences in default behavior
       Some of yt-dlp's default options are different from that of youtube-dl and youtube-dlc:

       • The options --auto-number (-A), --title (-t) and --literal (-l), no longer work.  See  removed  options
         for details

       • avconv is not supported as an alternative to ffmpeg

       • yt-dlp stores config files in slightly different locations to youtube-dl.  See configuration for a list
         of correct locations

       • The default output template is %(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s.  There is no real reason  for  this  change.
         This  was  changed  before  yt-dlp was ever made public and now there are no plans to change it back to
         %(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s.  Instead, you may use --compat-options filename

       • The default format sorting is different from youtube-dl and prefers higher resolution and better codecs
         rather  than  higher  bitrates.   You  can use the --format-sort option to change this to any order you
         prefer, or use --compat-options format-sort to use youtube-dl's sorting order

       • The default format selector is bv*+ba/b.  This means that if a combined video + audio  format  that  is
         better  than  the  best  video-only  format  is found, the former will be preferred.  Use -f bv+ba/b or
         --compat-options format-spec to revert this

       • Unlike youtube-dlc, yt-dlp does not allow merging multiple audio/video streams into one file by default
         (since  this  conflicts  with  the  use  of  -f bv*+ba).  If needed, this feature must be enabled using
         --audio-multistreams and --video-multistreams.  You  can  also  use  --compat-options  multistreams  to
         enable both

       • --no-abort-on-error  is enabled by default.  Use --abort-on-error or --compat-options abort-on-error to
         abort on errors instead

       • When writing metadata files such as thumbnails, description  or  infojson,  the  same  information  (if
         available)  is  also  written for playlists.  Use --no-write-playlist-metafiles or --compat-options no-
         playlist-metafiles to not write these files

       • --add-metadata attaches the infojson to mkv files in addition to writing the metadata  when  used  with
         --write-info-json.  Use --no-embed-info-json or --compat-options no-attach-info-json to revert this

       • Some  metadata  are embedded into different fields when using --add-metadata as compared to youtube-dl.
         Most notably, comment field contains the webpage_url and synopsis contains the  description.   You  can
         use  --parse-metadata  to  modify  this to your liking or use --compat-options embed-metadata to revert
         this

       • playlist_index behaves differently when used with options like --playlist-reverse and --playlist-items.
         See  #302  (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/302)  for  details.   You  can use --compat-options
         playlist-index if you want to keep the earlier behavior

       • The output of -F is listed in a new format.  Use --compat-options list-formats to revert this

       • All experiences of a funimation episode are  considered  as  a  single  video.   This  behavior  breaks
         existing  archives.   Use --compat-options seperate-video-versions to extract information from only the
         default player

       • Youtube live chat (if available) is considered  as  a  subtitle.   Use  --sub-langs  all,-live_chat  to
         download  all  subtitles  except  live chat.  You can also use --compat-options no-live-chat to prevent
         live chat from downloading

       • Youtube channel URLs are automatically redirected to /video.  Append a /featured to the URL to download
         only  the  videos  in the home page.  If the channel does not have a videos tab, we try to download the
         equivalent UU playlist instead.  For all other tabs, if the channel does not show the requested tab, an
         error  will be raised.  Also, /live URLs raise an error if there are no live videos instead of silently
         downloading the entire channel.  You may use --compat-options no-youtube-channel-redirect to revert all
         these redirections

       • Unavailable videos are also listed for youtube playlists.  Use --compat-options no-youtube-unavailable-
         videos to remove this

       • If ffmpeg is used as the downloader, the downloading and merging of formats happen  in  a  single  step
         when possible.  Use --compat-options no-direct-merge to revert this

       • Thumbnail  embedding  in  mp4  is done with mutagen if possible.  Use --compat-options embed-thumbnail-
         atomicparsley to force the use of AtomicParsley instead

       • Some private fields such as filenames are removed  by  default  from  the  infojson.   Use  --no-clean-
         infojson or --compat-options no-clean-infojson to revert this

       • When  --embed-subs  and  --write-subs  are  used  together,  the subtitles are written to disk and also
         embedded in the media file.  You can use just --embed-subs to embed the subs and  automatically  delete
         the       separate       file.        See       #630      (comment)      (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-
         dlp/issues/630#issuecomment-893659460) for more info.  --compat-options no-keep-subs  can  be  used  to
         revert this

       • certifi  will  be used for SSL root certificates, if installed.  If you want to use system certificates
         (e.g.  self-signed), use --compat-options no-certifi

       • youtube-dl tries to remove some superfluous punctuations from filenames.  While this can  sometimes  be
         helpfull,  it  is  often  undesirable.  So yt-dlp tries to keep the fields in the filenames as close to
         their original values as possible.  You can use --compat-options  filename-sanitization  to  revert  to
         youtube-dl's behavior

       For  ease of use, a few more compat options are available: * --compat-options all: Use all compat options
       * --compat-options youtube-dl: Same as --compat-options all,-multistreams * --compat-options youtube-dlc:
       Same as --compat-options all,-no-live-chat,-no-youtube-channel-redirect

DEPRECATED OPTIONS

       These are all the deprecated options and the current alternative to achieve the same effect

   Almost redundant options
       While  these  options  are  almost  the  same  as their new counterparts, there are some differences that
       prevents them being redundant

              -j, --dump-json                  --print "%()j"
              -F, --list-formats               --print formats_table
              --list-thumbnails                --print thumbnails_table --print playlist:thumbnails_table
              --list-subs                      --print automatic_captions_table --print subtitles_table

   Redundant options
       While these options are redundant, they are still expected to be used due to their ease of use

              --get-description                --print description
              --get-duration                   --print duration_string
              --get-filename                   --print filename
              --get-format                     --print format
              --get-id                         --print id
              --get-thumbnail                  --print thumbnail
              -e, --get-title                  --print title
              -g, --get-url                    --print urls
              --match-title REGEX              --match-filter "title ~= (?i)REGEX"
              --reject-title REGEX             --match-filter "title !~= (?i)REGEX"
              --min-views COUNT                --match-filter "view_count >=? COUNT"
              --max-views COUNT                --match-filter "view_count <=? COUNT"
              --user-agent UA                  --add-header "User-Agent:UA"
              --referer URL                    --add-header "Referer:URL"

   Not recommended
       While these options still work, their use is not  recommended  since  there  are  other  alternatives  to
       achieve the same

              --exec-before-download CMD       --exec "before_dl:CMD"
              --no-exec-before-download        --no-exec
              --all-formats                    -f all
              --all-subs                       --sub-langs all --write-subs
              --print-json                     -j --no-simulate
              --autonumber-size NUMBER         Use string formatting. Eg: %(autonumber)03d
              --autonumber-start NUMBER        Use internal field formatting like %(autonumber+NUMBER)s
              --id                             -o "%(id)s.%(ext)s"
              --metadata-from-title FORMAT     --parse-metadata "%(title)s:FORMAT"
              --hls-prefer-native              --downloader "m3u8:native"
              --hls-prefer-ffmpeg              --downloader "m3u8:ffmpeg"
              --list-formats-old               --compat-options list-formats (Alias: --no-list-formats-as-table)
              --list-formats-as-table          --compat-options -list-formats [Default] (Alias: --no-list-formats-old)
              --youtube-skip-dash-manifest     --extractor-args "youtube:skip=dash" (Alias: --no-youtube-include-dash-manifest)
              --youtube-skip-hls-manifest      --extractor-args "youtube:skip=hls" (Alias: --no-youtube-include-hls-manifest)
              --youtube-include-dash-manifest  Default (Alias: --no-youtube-skip-dash-manifest)
              --youtube-include-hls-manifest   Default (Alias: --no-youtube-skip-hls-manifest)

   Developer options
       These options are not intended to be used by the end-user

              --test                           Download only part of video for testing extractors
              --youtube-print-sig-code         For testing youtube signatures
              --allow-unplayable-formats       List unplayable formats also
              --no-allow-unplayable-formats    Default

   Old aliases
       These are aliases that are no longer documented for various reasons

              --avconv-location                --ffmpeg-location
              --clean-infojson                 --clean-info-json
              --cn-verification-proxy URL      --geo-verification-proxy URL
              --dump-headers                   --print-traffic
              --dump-intermediate-pages        --dump-pages
              --force-write-download-archive   --force-write-archive
              --load-info                      --load-info-json
              --no-clean-infojson              --no-clean-info-json
              --no-split-tracks                --no-split-chapters
              --no-write-srt                   --no-write-subs
              --prefer-unsecure                --prefer-insecure
              --rate-limit RATE                --limit-rate RATE
              --split-tracks                   --split-chapters
              --srt-lang LANGS                 --sub-langs LANGS
              --trim-file-names LENGTH         --trim-filenames LENGTH
              --write-srt                      --write-subs
              --yes-overwrites                 --force-overwrites

   Sponskrub Options
       Support  for  SponSkrub  (https://github.com/faissaloo/SponSkrub)  has  been  deprecated  in favor of the
       --sponsorblock options

              --sponskrub                      --sponsorblock-mark all
              --no-sponskrub                   --no-sponsorblock
              --sponskrub-cut                  --sponsorblock-remove all
              --no-sponskrub-cut               --sponsorblock-remove -all
              --sponskrub-force                Not applicable
              --no-sponskrub-force             Not applicable
              --sponskrub-location             Not applicable
              --sponskrub-args                 Not applicable

   No longer supported
       These options may no longer work as intended

              --prefer-avconv                  avconv is not officially supported by yt-dlp (Alias: --no-prefer-ffmpeg)
              --prefer-ffmpeg                  Default (Alias: --no-prefer-avconv)
              -C, --call-home                  Not implemented
              --no-call-home                   Default
              --include-ads                    No longer supported
              --no-include-ads                 Default
              --write-annotations              No supported site has annotations now
              --no-write-annotations           Default

   Removed
       These options were deprecated since 2014 and have now been entirely removed

              -A, --auto-number                -o "%(autonumber)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"
              -t, --title                      -o "%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s"
              -l, --literal                    -o accepts literal names

CONTRIBUTING

       See CONTRIBUTING.md for instructions on Opening an Issue and Contributing code to the project

MORE

       For FAQ see the youtube-dl README (https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#faq)

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