[youtube] Simplify cache_dir code (#1529)

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / utils.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 201ed255dfacca6853f1388e5ad05b613eca4fb5..f5f9cde99b0c65363a098923e4c350182896f7f1 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -824,3 +824,9 @@ def intlist_to_bytes(xs):
         return ''.join([chr(x) for x in xs])
     else:
         return bytes(xs)
+
+
+def get_cachedir(params={}):
+    cache_root = os.environ.get('XDG_CACHE_HOME',
+                                os.path.expanduser('~/.cache'))
+    return params.get('cachedir', os.path.join(cache_root, 'youtube-dl'))