Support for --referer parameter
AlexFolland opened this issue · comments
youtube-dl has a --referer parameter which is necessary to download videos from some websites. It accepts a URL.
Here's the description from youtube-dl --help:
--referer URL Specify a custom referer, use if the video
access is restricted to one domain
Can you give me an example where the refer switch is used? I don't fully get what they mean by custom referer.
After having done more research, this requires the user to add a second url to the command and is only useful for embedded videos on another website. This is a bit clunky to implement in a gui and it's an option that won't be used enough for me to want to implement it.
Can you give me an example where the refer switch is used? I don't fully get what they mean by custom referer.
An example is a site which requires the --referer to have the same URL as the video page, so the same URL appears twice in the command line to download.
Clunkier is having to copy the URL twice into the youtube-dl command line and use the terminal.
Good point, it may be of some more use than I originally thought. I will think about adding it in the future. It is still low in my list of priorities, sorry.
I understand. Thank you for your tool and your consideration.