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Diffstat (limited to 'yt_dlp/options.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | yt_dlp/options.py | 20 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/yt_dlp/options.py b/yt_dlp/options.py index 2047ac28e..1057cb643 100644 --- a/yt_dlp/options.py +++ b/yt_dlp/options.py @@ -862,7 +862,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None): callback_kwargs={ 'allowed_keys': '|'.join(OUTTMPL_TYPES.keys()), 'default_key': 'default', 'process': lambda x: x.strip()}, - help='Output filename template, see "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details') + help='Output filename template; see "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for details') filesystem.add_option( '--output-na-placeholder', dest='outtmpl_na_placeholder', metavar='TEXT', default='NA', @@ -1144,22 +1144,10 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None): help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP) postproc.add_option( '--parse-metadata', - metavar='FIELD:FORMAT', dest='metafromfield', action='append', + metavar='FROM:TO', dest='metafromfield', action='append', help=( - 'Parse additional metadata like title/artist from other fields. ' - 'Give a template or field name to extract data from and the ' - 'format to interpret it as, separated by a ":". ' - 'Either regular expression with named capture groups or a ' - 'similar syntax to the output template can be used for the FORMAT. ' - 'Similarly, the syntax for output template can be used for FIELD ' - 'to parse the data from multiple fields. ' - 'The parsed parameters replace any existing values and can be used in output templates. ' - 'This option can be used multiple times. ' - 'Example: --parse-metadata "title:%(artist)s - %(title)s" matches a title like ' - '"Coldplay - Paradise". ' - 'Example: --parse-metadata "%(series)s %(episode_number)s:%(title)s" ' - 'sets the title using series and episode number. ' - 'Example (regex): --parse-metadata "description:Artist - (?P<artist>.+?)"')) + 'Parse additional metadata like title/artist from other fields; ' + 'see "MODIFYING METADATA" for details')) postproc.add_option( '--xattrs', action='store_true', dest='xattrs', default=False, |