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diff --git a/network/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.1 b/network/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.1 index 2b5c7d90a8..ad5aa906d7 100644 --- a/network/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.1 +++ b/network/youtube-dl/youtube-dl.1 @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ Write video annotations to a .annotations.xml file .RS .RE .TP -.B \-\-load\-info \f[I]FILE\f[] +.B \-\-load\-info\-json \f[I]FILE\f[] JSON file containing the video information (created with the "\-\-write\-info\-json" option) .RS @@ -1037,6 +1037,10 @@ download, starting at zero .IP \[bu] 2 \f[C]playlist_index\f[]: Index of the video in the playlist padded with leading zeros according to the total length of the playlist +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]playlist_id\f[]: Playlist identifier +.IP \[bu] 2 +\f[C]playlist_title\f[]: Playlist title .PP Available for the video that belongs to some logical chapter or section: \- \f[C]chapter\f[]: Name or title of the chapter the video belongs to @@ -1670,6 +1674,27 @@ to a video or unsupported. You can find out which by examining the output (if you run youtube\-dl on the console) or catching an \f[C]UnsupportedError\f[] exception if you run it from a Python program. +.SH Why do I need to go through that much red tape when filing bugs? +.PP +Before we had the issue template, despite our extensive bug reporting +instructions (#bugs), about 80% of the issue reports we got were +useless, for instance because people used ancient versions hundreds of +releases old, because of simple syntactic errors (not in youtube\-dl but +in general shell usage), because the problem was alrady reported +multiple times before, because people did not actually read an error +message, even if it said "please install ffmpeg", because people did not +mention the URL they were trying to download and many more simple, +easy\-to\-avoid problems, many of whom were totally unrelated to +youtube\-dl. +.PP +youtube\-dl is an open\-source project manned by too few volunteers, so +we\[aq]d rather spend time fixing bugs where we are certain none of +those simple problems apply, and where we can be reasonably confident to +be able to reproduce the issue without asking the reporter repeatedly. +As such, the output of \f[C]youtube\-dl\ \-v\ YOUR_URL_HERE\f[] is +really all that\[aq]s required to file an issue. +The issue template also guides you through some basic steps you can do, +such as checking that your version of youtube\-dl is current. .SH DEVELOPER INSTRUCTIONS .PP Most users do not need to build youtube\-dl and can download the |