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| author | Philipp Hagemeister <[email protected]> | 2012-11-27 16:06:59 +0100 |
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| committer | Philipp Hagemeister <[email protected]> | 2012-11-27 16:06:59 +0100 |
| commit | 81db2d80400ebefce061fdaf0c7c4fe6e4ee7538 (patch) | |
| tree | 6b0a3330147ce2f249279e57a3d548349231b217 /documentation.html | |
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Document --restrict-filenames, remove stitle
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diff --git a/documentation.html b/documentation.html index b2d6eae89..2caee1ff7 100644 --- a/documentation.html +++ b/documentation.html @@ -90,14 +90,20 @@ Unsupported, see https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/300 <li><em>url</em>: The sequence will be replaced by the video URL.</li> <li><em>uploader</em>: The sequence will be replaced by the nickname of the person who uploaded the video.</li> <li><em>upload_date</em>: The sequence will be replaced by the upload date in YYYYMMDD format.</li> -<li><em>title</em>: The sequence will be replaced by the literal video title.</li> -<li><em>stitle</em>: The sequence will be replaced by a simplified video title, restricted to alphanumeric characters and dashes.</li> +<li><em>title</em>: The sequence will be replaced by the video title.</li> <li><em>ext</em>: The sequence will be replaced by the appropriate extension (like <em>flv</em> or <em>mp4</em>).</li> <li><em>epoch</em>: The sequence will be replaced by the Unix epoch when creating the file.</li> <li><em>autonumber</em>: The sequence will be replaced by a five-digit number that will be increased with each download, starting at zero.</li> </ul> -<p>As you may have guessed, the default template is <em>%(id)s.%(ext)s</em>. When some command line options are used, it's replaced by other templates like <em>%(stitle)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s</em>. You can specify your own.</p> +<p>The current default template is <em>%(id)s.%(ext)s</em>, but that will be switchted to <em>%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s</em> (which can be requested with <code>-t</code> at the moment).</p> + +<p>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 <code>--restrict-filenames</code> flag to get a shorter title:</p> + +<p><code style="white-space: pre;"><span style="color: #888;">$</span> youtube-dl --get-filename -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" BaW_jenozKc +<span style="color: #004;">youtube-dl test video ''_ä↭𝕐.mp4</span> <span style="color: #666;"># All kinds of weird characters</span> +<span style="color: #888;">$</span> youtube-dl --get-filename -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" BaW_jenozKc --restrict-filenames +<span style="color: #004;">youtube-dl_test_video_.mp4</span> <span style="color: #666;"># A simple file name</span></code></p> <h1 id="d8">Configuration</h1> |