From adc0ae3ceb9371eb23a9a4d81d0e134ac861723e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 01:56:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [__init__] Provide a better error messages if URLs are
 missing (Closes #4813)

---
 youtube_dl/__init__.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index 71d2c6f35..e90679ff9 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -361,7 +361,9 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
                 sys.exit()
 
             ydl.warn_if_short_id(sys.argv[1:] if argv is None else argv)
-            parser.error('you must provide at least one URL')
+            parser.error(
+                'You must provide at least one URL.\n'
+                'Type youtube-dl --help to see a list of all options.')
 
         try:
             if opts.load_info_filename is not None: