'When given in the global configuration file /etc/youtube-dl.conf: '
'Do not read the user configuration in ~/.config/youtube-dl/config '
'(%APPDATA%/youtube-dl/config.txt on Windows)')
+ general.add_option(
+ '--config-location',
+ dest='config_location', metavar='PATH',
+ help='Location of the configuration file; either the path to the config or its containing directory.')
general.add_option(
'--flat-playlist',
action='store_const', dest='extract_flat', const='in_playlist',
return conf
command_line_conf = compat_conf(sys.argv[1:])
-
- if '--ignore-config' in command_line_conf:
- system_conf = []
- user_conf = []
+ opts, args = parser.parse_args(command_line_conf)
+
+ system_conf = user_conf = custom_conf = []
+
+ if '--config-location' in command_line_conf:
+ location = compat_expanduser(opts.config_location)
+ if os.path.isdir(location):
+ location = os.path.join(location, 'youtube-dl.conf')
+ if not os.path.exists(location):
+ parser.error('config-location %s does not exist.' % location)
+ custom_conf = _readOptions(location)
+ elif '--ignore-config' in command_line_conf:
+ pass
else:
system_conf = _readOptions('/etc/youtube-dl.conf')
- if '--ignore-config' in system_conf:
- user_conf = []
- else:
+ if '--ignore-config' not in system_conf:
user_conf = _readUserConf()
- argv = system_conf + user_conf + command_line_conf
+ argv = system_conf + user_conf + command_line_conf
opts, args = parser.parse_args(argv)
if opts.verbose:
- write_string('[debug] System config: ' + repr(_hide_login_info(system_conf)) + '\n')
- write_string('[debug] User config: ' + repr(_hide_login_info(user_conf)) + '\n')
- write_string('[debug] Command-line args: ' + repr(_hide_login_info(command_line_conf)) + '\n')
+ for conf_label, conf in (
+ ('System config', system_conf),
+ ('User config', user_conf),
+ ('Custom config', custom_conf),
+ ('Command-line args', command_line_conf)):
+ write_string('[debug] %s: %s\n' % (conf_label, repr(_hide_login_info(conf))))
return parser, opts, args