From 7c094bfe2f8fa0d24fbf6932c674f5d7938268e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philipp Hagemeister Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 10:57:31 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Reveal a little bit more detail about what we cache (#858) --- youtube_dl/__init__.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py index eac7c42eb..b29cf6758 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py +++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ def _hide_login_info(opts): general.add_option('--no-check-certificate', action='store_true', dest='no_check_certificate', default=False, help='Suppress HTTPS certificate validation.') general.add_option( '--cache-dir', dest='cachedir', default=get_cachedir(), metavar='DIR', - help='Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl can store some downloaded information permanently. By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/youtube-dl or ~/.cache/youtube-dl .') + help='Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl can store some downloaded information permanently. By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/youtube-dl or ~/.cache/youtube-dl . At the moment, only YouTube player files (for videos with obfuscated signatures) are cached, but that may change.') general.add_option( '--no-cache-dir', action='store_const', const=None, dest='cachedir', help='Disable filesystem caching')