Options and Features

Basic executable options

Get youtube-dl.rb's usable executable's version

YoutubeDL.binary_version # => "2015.09.03"

Extractors

YoutubeDL.extractors 
# => ["1tv",
 "1up.com",
 "220.ro",
 "22tracks:genre",
 "22tracks:track",
 ...
 "YourUpload",
 "youtube",
 "youtube:channel",
 "youtube:favorites",
 "youtube:history",
 "youtube:playlist",
 "youtube:recommended",
 "youtube:search",
 "youtube:search:date",
 "youtube:search_url",
 "youtube:show",
 "youtube:subscriptions",
 "youtube:truncated_id",
 "youtube:truncated_url",
 "youtube:user",
 "youtube:watchlater",
 "Zapiks",
 "ZDF",
 "ZDFChannel",
 "zingmp3:album",
 "zingmp3:song"]

User Agent

Returns the current browser's identification

YoutubeDL.user_agent
# => "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20150101 Firefox/20.0 (Chrome)"

Download Options

The gem supports most of the options in youtube-dl. Just pass the options as a hash. These two do the same thing:

YoutubeDL.download "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f99njZJod2c", output: "NSP - If We Were Gay.mp4", format: 5, continue: false

$ youtube-dl -F 5 --output "NSP - If We Were Gay.mp4" --no-continue "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f99njZJod2c"