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<li>You can change the file name of the video using the -o option, like in
<em>youtube-dl -o vid.flv "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar"</em>.
Read the <em>Output template</em> section for more details on this.</li>
Read the <a href="#otpl">Output template</a> section for more details on
this.</li>
<li>Some videos require an account to be downloaded, mostly because they're
flagged as mature content. You can pass the program a username and password
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by using the -f or --format option. This makes it possible to download high
quality versions of the videos when available.</li>
<li><em>youtube-dl</em> can attempt to download the best quality version of
a video by using the -b or --best-quality option.</li>
<li>The -b or --best-quality option is an alias for -f 18.</li>
<li><em>youtube-dl</em> can attempt to download the mobile quality version of
a video by using the -m or --mobile-version option.</li>
<li>The -m or --mobile-version option is an alias for -f 17.</li>
<li>Normally, the program will stop on the first error, but you can tell it
to attempt to download every video with the -i or --ignore-errors option.</li>
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<h2>Download it</h2>
<h2 id="otpl">Download it</h2>
<p>Note that if you directly click on these hyperlinks, your web browser will
most likely display the program contents. It's usually better to
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<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.</li>
title, restricted to alphanumeric characters and dashes.</li>
<li><em>ext</em>: The sequence will be replaced by the appropriate
extension.</li>
extension (like <em>flv</em> or <em>mp4</em>).</li>
</ul>
<p>As you may have guessed, the default template is <em>%(id)s.%(ext)s</em>.