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youtube-dl extension will use the proxy set in [gPodder proxy settings](../user-manual.md#using-a-http-or-socks-proxy-server).

## Read settings from youtube-dl or yt-dlp config file

gPodder 3.11.6 can load settings from the same config file used by the command line tool, and other tools such as mpv.
The file can be found at `${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/yt-dlp/config` on Linux/macOS, and `${APPDATA}/yt-dlp/config` on Windows.
A list of more config file locations are available at https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#configuration.

The extension's preferences page has a checkbox that must be enabled to load the config file.
Please uncheck it to verify extension related errors are not caused by settings in your config file.

Some settings are overridden by gPodder, such as `-f` and `--format`.

Links:

- [Extension Source](https://github.com/gpodder/gpodder/blob/master/share/gpodder/extensions/youtube-dl.py)