Add --flat-playlist option (Closes #4003)

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / options.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py
index 649361bde3a9eee3bd1222393b069ffb8ac0976d..2b1cd7438669584ea79512e6def4f2272419f004 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/options.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/options.py
@@ -159,6 +159,11 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
         '--ignore-config',
         action='store_true',
         help='Do not read configuration files. When given in the global configuration file /etc/youtube-dl.conf: do not read the user configuration in ~/.config/youtube-dl.conf (%APPDATA%/youtube-dl/config.txt on Windows)')
+    general.add_option(
+        '--flat-playlist',
+        action='store_const', dest='extract_flat', const='in_playlist',
+        default=False,
+        help='Do not extract the videos of a playlist, only list them.')
 
     selection = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Video Selection')
     selection.add_option(