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@@ -138,6 +138,9 @@ quality versions of the videos when available.
Normally, the program will stop on the first error, but you can tell it
to attempt to download every video with the -i or --ignore-errors option.
+The -a or --batch-file option lets you specify a file to read URLs from.
+The file must contain one URL per line.
+
youtube-dl honors the http_proxy environment variable
if you want to use a proxy. Set it to something like
http://proxy.example.com:8080, and do not leave the http://