youtube-dl

commit: 7c094bfe2f8fa0d24fbf6932c674f5d7938268e6
parent 0f3065832973b742ccc884e91732c6c0af8fa17d
Author: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date:   Fri,  3 Jan 2014 10:57:31 +0100

Reveal a little bit more detail about what we cache (#858)

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youtube_dl/__init__.py
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1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
     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')