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| author | Ricardo Garcia <[email protected]> | 2008-07-22 22:52:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Ricardo Garcia <[email protected]> | 2010-10-31 11:23:30 +0100 |
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diff --git a/index.html.in b/index.html.in new file mode 100644 index 000000000..999c8e9bc --- /dev/null +++ b/index.html.in @@ -0,0 +1,173 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html + PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> +<head> + <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> + <title>youtube-dl: Download videos from YouTube.com</title> + <style type="text/css"><!-- + body { + font-family: sans-serif; + font-size: small; + } + h1 { + text-align: center; + text-decoration: underline; + color: #006699; + } + h2 { + color: #006699; + } + p { + text-align: justify; + margin-left: 5%; + margin-right: 5%; + } + ul { + margin-left: 5%; + margin-right: 5%; + list-style-type: square; + } + li { + margin-bottom: 0.5ex; + } + #copyright { + font-size: x-small; + text-align: center; + } + --></style> +</head> +<body> +<h1>youtube-dl: Download videos from YouTube.com</h1> + +<h2>What is it?</h2> + +<p><em>youtube-dl</em> is a small command-line program to download videos +from YouTube.com. It requires the <a href="http://www.python.org/">Python +interpreter</a>, version 2.4 or later, and it's not platform specific. +It should work in your Unix box, in Windows or in Mac OS X. The latest version +is <strong>@PROGRAM_VERSION@</strong>. It's licensed under the MIT License, which +means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like +complying with a few simple conditions.</p> + +<p>I'll try to keep it updated if YouTube.com changes the way you access +their videos. After all, it's a simple and short program. However, I can't +guarantee anything. If you detect it stops working, check for new versions +and/or inform me about the problem, indicating the program version you +are using. If the program stops working and I can't solve the problem but +you have a solution, I'd like to know it. If that happens and you feel you +can maintain the program yourself, tell me. My contact information is +at <a href="http://freshmeat.net/~rg3/">freshmeat.net</a>.</p> + +<p>Thanks for all the feedback received so far. I'm glad people find my +program useful.</p> + +<p><strong>Related projects</strong>: +<a href="../metacafe-dl/">metacafe-dl</a> +<a href="../pornotube-dl/">pornotube-dl</a> +</p> + +<h2>Usage instructions</h2> + +<p>In Windows, once you have installed the Python interpreter, save the +program with the <em>.py</em> extension and put it somewhere in the PATH. +Try to follow the +<a href="http://rg03.wordpress.com/youtube-dl-under-windows-xp/">guide to +install youtube-dl under Windows XP</a>.</p> + +<p>In Unix, download it, give it execution permission and copy it to one +of the PATH directories (typically, <em>/usr/local/bin</em>).</p> + +<p>After that, you should be able to call it from the command line as +<em>youtube-dl</em> or <em>youtube-dl.py</em>. I will use <em>youtube-dl</em> +in the following examples. Usage instructions are easy. Use <em>youtube-dl</em> +followed by a video URL or identifier. Example: <em>youtube-dl +"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar"</em>. The video will be saved +to the file <em>foobar.flv</em> in that example. As YouTube.com +videos are in Flash Video format, their extension should be <em>flv</em>. +In Linux and other unices, video players using a recent version of +<em>ffmpeg</em> can play them. That includes MPlayer, VLC, etc. Those two +work under Windows and other platforms, but you could also get a +specific FLV player of your taste.</p> + +<p>If you try to run the program and you receive an error message containing the +keyword <em>SyntaxError</em> near the end, it means your Python interpreter +is too old.</p> + +<h2>More usage tips</h2> + +<ul> + +<li>You can change the file name of the video using the -o option, like in +<em>youtube-dl -o vid.flv "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar"</em>.</li> + +<li>Some videos require an account to be downloaded, mostly because they're +flagged as mature content. You can pass the program a username and password +for a YouTube.com account with the -u and -p options, like <em>youtube-dl +-u myusername -p mypassword "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar"</em>.</li> + +<li>The account data can also be read from the user .netrc file by indicating +the -n or --netrc option. The machine name is <em>youtube</em> in that +case.</li> + +<li>The <em>simulate mode</em> (activated with -s or --simulate) can be used +to just get the real video URL and use it with a download manager if you +prefer that option.</li> + +<li>The <em>quiet mode</em> (activated with -q or --quiet) can be used to +supress all output messages. This allows, in systems featuring /dev/stdout +and other similar special files, outputting the video data to standard output +in order to pipe it to another program without interferences.</li> + +<li>The program can be told to simply print the final video URL to standard +output using the -g or --get-url option.</li> + +<li>Combined with the above option, the -2 or --title-too option tells the +program to print the video title too.</li> + +<li>The default filename is <em>video_id.flv</em>. But you can also use the +video title in the filename with the -t or --title option, or preserve the +literal title in the filename with the -l or --literal option.</li> + +<li>You can make the program append <em>&fmt=something</em> to the URL +by using the -f or --format option. This makes it possible to download high +quality versions of the videos when available.</li> + +<li><em>youtube-dl</em> can attempt to download the best quality version of +a video by using the -b or --best-quality option.</li> + +<li><em>youtube-dl</em> honors the <em>http_proxy</em> environment variable +if you want to use a proxy. Set it to something like +<em>http://proxy.example.com:8080</em>, and do not leave the <em>http://</em> +prefix out.</li> + +<li>You can get the program version by calling it as <em>youtube-dl +-v</em> or <em>youtube-dl --version</em>.</li> + +<li>For usage instructions, use <em>youtube-dl -h</em> or <em>youtube-dl +--help.</em></li> + +<li>You can cancel the program at any time pressing Ctrl+C. It may print +some error lines saying something about <em>KeyboardInterrupt</em>. +That's ok.</li> + +</ul> + +<h2>Download it</h2> + +<p>Note that if you directly click on these hyperlinks, your web browser will +most likely display the program contents. It's usually better to +right-click on it and choose the appropriate option, normally called <em>Save +Target As</em> or <em>Save Link As</em>, depending on the web browser you +are using.</p> + +<p><a href="youtube-dl">@PROGRAM_VERSION@</a></p> +<ul> + <li><strong>MD5</strong>: @PROGRAM_MD5SUM@</li> + <li><strong>SHA1</strong>: @PROGRAM_SHA1SUM@</li> + <li><strong>SHA256</strong>: @PROGRAM_SHA256SUM@</li> +</ul> + +<p id="copyright">Copyright © 2006-2007 Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez</p> +</body> +</html> |