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Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

Options:
  General Options:
    -h, --help                       Print this help text and exit
    --version                        Print program version and exit
    -U, --update                     Update this program to latest version. Make sure that you have sufficient permissions (run with sudo if needed)
    -i, --ignore-errors              Continue on download errors, for example to skip unavailable videos in a playlist
    --abort-on-error                 Abort downloading of further videos (in the playlist or the command line) if an error occurs
    --dump-user-agent                Display the current browser identification
    --list-extractors                List all supported extractors
    --extractor-descriptions         Output descriptions of all supported extractors
    --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 youtube-dl "large apple". Use the value "auto"
                                     to let youtube-dl 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                  Do not read configuration files. When given in the global configuration file /etc/youtube-dl.conf: Do not read the user configuration in ~/.config
                                     /youtube-dl/config (%APPDATA%/youtube-dl/config.txt on Windows)
    --flat-playlist                  Do not extract the videos of a playlist, only list them.
    --no-color                       Do not emit color codes in output

  Network Options:
    --proxy URL                      Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS proxy. 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 (experimental)
    -4, --force-ipv4                 Make all connections via IPv4 (experimental)
    -6, --force-ipv6                 Make all connections via IPv6 (experimental)
    --cn-verification-proxy URL      Use this proxy to verify the IP address for some Chinese sites. The default proxy specified by --proxy (or none, if the options is not present) is used
                                     for the actual downloading. (experimental)

  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.
    --match-title REGEX              Download only matching titles (regex or caseless sub-string)
    --reject-title REGEX             Skip download for matching titles (regex or caseless sub-string)
    --max-downloads NUMBER           Abort after downloading NUMBER files
    --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 in this date
    --datebefore DATE                Download only videos uploaded on or before this date (i.e. inclusive)
    --dateafter DATE                 Download only videos uploaded on or after this date (i.e. inclusive)
    --min-views COUNT                Do not download any videos with less than COUNT views
    --max-views COUNT                Do not download any videos with more than COUNT views
    --match-filter FILTER            Generic video filter (experimental). Specify any key (see help for -o for a list of available keys) to match if the key is present, !key to check if the
                                     key is not present,key > NUMBER (like "comment_count > 12", also works with >=, <, <=, !=, =) to compare against a number, and & to require multiple
                                     matches. Values which are not known are excluded unless you put a question mark (?) after the operator.For example, to only match videos that have been
                                     liked more than 100 times and disliked less than 50 times (or the dislike functionality is not available at the given service), but who also have a
                                     description, use --match-filter "like_count > 100 & dislike_count <? 50 & description" .
    --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.
    --include-ads                    Download advertisements as well (experimental)

  Download Options:
    -r, --rate-limit LIMIT           Maximum download rate in bytes per second (e.g. 50K or 4.2M)
    -R, --retries RETRIES            Number of retries (default is 10), or "infinite".
    --buffer-size SIZE               Size of download buffer (e.g. 1024 or 16K) (default is 1024)
    --no-resize-buffer               Do not automatically adjust the buffer size. By default, the buffer size is automatically resized from an initial value of SIZE.
    --playlist-reverse               Download playlist videos in reverse order
    --xattr-set-filesize             Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with expected filesize (experimental)
    --hls-prefer-native              Use the native HLS downloader instead of ffmpeg (experimental)
    --hls-use-mpegts                 Use the mpegts container for HLS videos, allowing to play the video while downloading (some players may not be able to play it)
    --external-downloader COMMAND    Use the specified external downloader. Currently supports aria2c,axel,curl,httpie,wget
    --external-downloader-args ARGS  Give these arguments to the external downloader

  Filesystem Options:
    -a, --batch-file FILE            File containing URLs to download ('-' for stdin)
    --id                             Use only video ID in file name
    -o, --output TEMPLATE            Output filename template. Use %(title)s to get the title, %(uploader)s for the uploader name, %(uploader_id)s for the uploader nickname if different,
                                     %(autonumber)s to get an automatically incremented number, %(ext)s for the filename extension, %(format)s for the format description (like "22 - 1280x720"
                                     or "HD"), %(format_id)s for the unique id of the format (like YouTube's itags: "137"), %(upload_date)s for the upload date (YYYYMMDD), %(extractor)s for