From 0001fcb586c3ab297cd48c77ddd6f5d40546dac4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pukkandan Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 00:51:40 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Add option `--netrc-location` Closes #792, #963 --- .gitignore | 1 + README.md | 12 ++++++------ yt_dlp/__init__.py | 1 + yt_dlp/extractor/common.py | 6 +++++- yt_dlp/options.py | 4 ++++ 5 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 88a9605f7..bf06c81f0 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ *.spec cookies *cookies.txt +.netrc # Downloaded *.srt diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8ffb20a8c..a2c1cbd82 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -695,6 +695,9 @@ Then simply run `make`. You can also run `make yt-dlp` instead to compile only t out, yt-dlp will ask interactively -2, --twofactor TWOFACTOR Two-factor authentication code -n, --netrc Use .netrc authentication data + --netrc-location PATH Location of .netrc authentication data; + either the path or its containing + directory. Defaults to ~/.netrc --video-password PASSWORD Video password (vimeo, youku) --ap-mso MSO Adobe Pass multiple-system operator (TV provider) identifier, use --ap-list-mso for @@ -923,14 +926,14 @@ You can use `--ignore-config` if you want to disable all configuration files for ### Authentication with `.netrc` file -You may also want to configure automatic credentials storage for extractors that support authentication (by providing login and password with `--username` and `--password`) in order not to pass credentials as command line arguments on every yt-dlp execution and prevent tracking plain text passwords in the shell command history. You can achieve this using a [`.netrc` file](https://stackoverflow.com/tags/.netrc/info) on a per extractor basis. For that you will need to create a `.netrc` file in your `$HOME` and restrict permissions to read/write by only you: +You may also want to configure automatic credentials storage for extractors that support authentication (by providing login and password with `--username` and `--password`) in order not to pass credentials as command line arguments on every yt-dlp execution and prevent tracking plain text passwords in the shell command history. You can achieve this using a [`.netrc` file](https://stackoverflow.com/tags/.netrc/info) on a per extractor basis. For that you will need to create a `.netrc` file in `--netrc-location` and restrict permissions to read/write by only you: ``` touch $HOME/.netrc chmod a-rwx,u+rw $HOME/.netrc ``` After that you can add credentials for an extractor in the following format, where *extractor* is the name of the extractor in lowercase: ``` -machine login password +machine login password ``` For example: ``` @@ -939,10 +942,7 @@ machine twitch login my_twitch_account_name password my_twitch_password ``` To activate authentication with the `.netrc` file you should pass `--netrc` to yt-dlp or place it in the [configuration file](#configuration). -On Windows you may also need to setup the `%HOME%` environment variable manually. For example: -``` -set HOME=%USERPROFILE% -``` +The default location of the .netrc file is `$HOME` (`~`) in UNIX. On Windows, it is `%HOME%` if present, `%USERPROFILE%` (generally `C:\Users\`) or `%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%` # OUTPUT TEMPLATE diff --git a/yt_dlp/__init__.py b/yt_dlp/__init__.py index f9a7e2f11..5168ed0f7 100644 --- a/yt_dlp/__init__.py +++ b/yt_dlp/__init__.py @@ -575,6 +575,7 @@ def _real_main(argv=None): ydl_opts = { 'usenetrc': opts.usenetrc, + 'netrc_location': opts.netrc_location, 'username': opts.username, 'password': opts.password, 'twofactor': opts.twofactor, diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py index 54a9dc263..e79684231 100644 --- a/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py +++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ from ..compat import ( compat_cookies_SimpleCookie, compat_etree_Element, compat_etree_fromstring, + compat_expanduser, compat_getpass, compat_http_client, compat_os_name, @@ -1166,7 +1167,10 @@ class InfoExtractor(object): if self.get_param('usenetrc', False): try: - info = netrc.netrc().authenticators(netrc_machine) + netrc_file = compat_expanduser(self.get_param('netrc_location') or '~') + if os.path.isdir(netrc_file): + netrc_file = os.path.join(netrc_file, '.netrc') + info = netrc.netrc(file=netrc_file).authenticators(netrc_machine) if info is not None: username = info[0] password = info[2] diff --git a/yt_dlp/options.py b/yt_dlp/options.py index 2ff0fbfc1..099b151c6 100644 --- a/yt_dlp/options.py +++ b/yt_dlp/options.py @@ -478,6 +478,10 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None): '-n', '--netrc', action='store_true', dest='usenetrc', default=False, help='Use .netrc authentication data') + authentication.add_option( + '--netrc-location', + dest='netrc_location', metavar='PATH', + help='Location of .netrc authentication data; either the path or its containing directory. Defaults to ~/.netrc') authentication.add_option( '--video-password', dest='videopassword', metavar='PASSWORD',