forcefilename: Force printing final filename.
forceduration: Force printing duration.
forcejson: Force printing info_dict as JSON.
+ dump_single_json: Force printing the info_dict of the whole playlist
+ (or video) as a single JSON line.
simulate: Do not download the video files.
format: Video format code.
format_limit: Highest quality format to try.
'auto' for elaborate guessing
encoding: Use this encoding instead of the system-specified.
extract_flat: Do not resolve URLs, return the immediate result.
+ Pass in 'in_playlist' to only show this behavior for
+ playlist items.
The following parameters are not used by YoutubeDL itself, they are used by
the FileDownloader:
if (sys.version_info >= (3,) and sys.platform != 'win32' and
sys.getfilesystemencoding() in ['ascii', 'ANSI_X3.4-1968']
- and not params['restrictfilenames']):
+ and not params.get('restrictfilenames', False)):
# On Python 3, the Unicode filesystem API will throw errors (#1474)
self.report_warning(
'Assuming --restrict-filenames since file system encoding '
- 'cannot encode all charactes. '
+ 'cannot encode all characters. '
'Set the LC_ALL environment variable to fix this.')
self.params['restrictfilenames'] = True
result_type = ie_result.get('_type', 'video')
- if self.params.get('extract_flat', False):
- if result_type in ('url', 'url_transparent'):
+ if result_type in ('url', 'url_transparent'):
+ extract_flat = self.params.get('extract_flat', False)
+ if ((extract_flat == 'in_playlist' and 'playlist' in extra_info) or
+ extract_flat is True):
+ if self.params.get('forcejson', False):
+ self.to_stdout(json.dumps(ie_result))
return ie_result
if result_type == 'video':
if self.params.get('forcejson', False):
info_dict['_filename'] = filename
self.to_stdout(json.dumps(info_dict))
+ if self.params.get('dump_single_json', False):
+ info_dict['_filename'] = filename
# Do nothing else if in simulate mode
if self.params.get('simulate', False):
for url in url_list:
try:
#It also downloads the videos
- self.extract_info(url)
+ res = self.extract_info(url)
except UnavailableVideoError:
self.report_error('unable to download video')
except MaxDownloadsReached:
self.to_screen('[info] Maximum number of downloaded files reached.')
raise
+ else:
+ if self.params.get('dump_single_json', False):
+ self.to_stdout(json.dumps(res))
return self._download_retcode