Explain a yt-dlp command
Paste a command you found somewhere. Nothing is executed — it is split into parts and each flag is looked up.
What this command does
Nothing to explain yet.
Frequently asked questions
› What does the Explain page do?
Paste any yt-dlp command and it breaks the line into its parts and tells you what each flag does, which ones need ffmpeg, and which have been deprecated. Useful before running something you copied from a forum.
› Is anything executed when I paste a command?
No. The text is split into tokens and looked up in a table. Nothing runs, on your machine or ours.
› How do I know if a flag is out of date?
Deprecated flags are marked in the result along with what replaced them, which is the usual reason an old command from a blog post no longer behaves the way it did.