What is the format of the youtube-dl configuration file?

Can't find it anywhere. I do know it goes in /etc/youtube-dl.conf or ~/.config/youtube-dl/config.

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There is no format. Just put the command line options in the file, e.g.--extract-audio --no-mtime

Source

So one line per configuration option, for example to change the default directory keeping the standard file name, just this line would be needed:

-o '~/Downloads/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s'

Try this:

w3@aardvark:~(0)$ apt-cache search youtube-dl
youtube-dl - downloader of videos from YouTube and other sites
nicovideo-dl - Download videos from
w3@aardvark:~(0)$ dpkg -l !$
dpkg -l youtube-dl
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=====================================-=======================-=======================-================================================================================
ii youtube-dl 2014.02.17-1 all downloader of videos from YouTube and other sites
w3@aardvark:~(0)$ dpkg -L !$
dpkg -L youtube-dl
/.
/etc
/etc/bash_completion.d
/etc/bash_completion.d/youtube-dl.bash-completion

And so forth - listing all the files in the youtube-dl package, including,

 /usr/share/man/man1/youtube-dl.1.gz

And, if you read man youtube-dl it will tell you:

CONFIGURATION You can configure youtube-dl by placing default arguments (such as --extract-audio --no-mtime to always extract the audio and not copy the mtime) into /etc/youtube-dl.conf and/or ~/.config/youtube-dl.conf. On Windows, the configuration file locations are %APPDATA%\youtube-dl\config.txt and C:\Users\<Your‐ name>\youtube-dl.conf.

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