Defaul Referer

[sirinath]

Is it possible to add a default referer which is the site name. If using you tube it will be youtube.com. If vimeo it will be vimeo.com

[phihag]

Do you really mean an HTTP referer header in the download request? I see little use for that, why would you want one? Note that you can embed the extractor in the filename, simply add an output template with %(extractor)s in it, as in

$ youtube-dl  -o '%(extractor)s-%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s' --get-filename 3r8Rzr08oSU
youtube-Linked List in a File 5 (using Scala)-3r8Rzr08oSU.mp4

[phihag]

I'm closing this issue now since I'm fairly certain that you wanted -o %(extractor)s. Please comment if that is not the case.

[sirinath]

Some sites are defensive if the the referrer is not within the site. So it may be helpful if YTDL mimics a user clicking URLs trough a browser to navigate the site so that some protection mechanism is not triggered.

Items to mimic:

1. Referer
2. User agent
3. Cookies

[phihag]

Sorry, it looks like I completely misunderstood your request. We are already sending the referer, user-agent and cookies headers, since one of the very first versions of youtube-dl. If there is a specific problem, feel free to report it.

[DrMcCoy]

I'd very much like a CLI argument to explictly set the HTTP referer.

Vimeo, for example, has a setting where uploaders can say that a video is only accessible through an embed from a specific domain. They check that by looking at the referer; I often run into problems there because I have referer disabled by default through the Firefox extension RefControl.

[DrMcCoy]

And if you want an example, this video here is where I ran into it just now.

[jaimeMF]

@DrMcCoy Have you tried the --referer option? If that doesn't work, open a new issue.

[DrMcCoy]

Oh, you're right, this is exactly what I asked for. And it works, too. My bad! :)

Seems like my system's manpage for youtube-dl is outdated, and so the option wasn't listed there when I checked.