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authorPhilipp Hagemeister <[email protected]>2014-11-26 10:51:03 +0100
committerPhilipp Hagemeister <[email protected]>2014-11-26 10:51:03 +0100
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parentddfd0f2727797f42c807cfc55c6ffa2b2561343f (diff)
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Clarify --no-playlist documentation (Closes #4309)
Diffstat (limited to 'youtube_dl')
-rwxr-xr-xyoutube_dl/YoutubeDL.py2
-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/options.py2
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index 21c7c298a..6342ae767 100755
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -174,6 +174,8 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
extract_flat: Do not resolve URLs, return the immediate result.
Pass in 'in_playlist' to only show this behavior for
playlist items.
+ no_playlist: If the URL contains both a playlist and a video ID,
+ download the video, not the playlist.
The following parameters are not used by YoutubeDL itself, they are used by
the FileDownloader:
diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py
index da02fb6bb..2e8c71508 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/options.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/options.py
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
selection.add_option(
'--no-playlist',
action='store_true', dest='noplaylist', default=False,
- help='download only the currently playing video')
+ help='If the URL refers to a video and a playlist, download only the video.')
selection.add_option(
'--age-limit',
metavar='YEARS', dest='age_limit', default=None, type=int,