X-Git-Url: http://git.bitcoin.ninja/index.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=933411fa2f4fd01b3195f7834d35e08ddfa45672;hb=12ea2f30cfcc381eb46cc99a0a4c3d468fe732d1;hp=d625464334a02b37dbe1706fcff4653d2006c130;hpb=f24a5a2faab20e13c3a9f752f3d41fe66212d2c6;p=youtube-dl diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d62546433..933411fa2 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ Again, from then on you'll be able to update with `sudo youtube-dl -U`. YouTube changed their playlist format in March 2014 and later on, so you'll need at least youtube-dl 2014.07.25 to download all YouTube videos. -If you have installed youtube-dl with a package manager, pip, setup.py or a tarball, please use that to update. Note that Ubuntu packages do not seem to get updated anymore. Since we are not affiliated with Ubuntu, there is little we can do. Feel free to report bugs to the Ubuntu packaging guys - all they have to do is update the package to a somewhat recent version. See above for a way to update. +If you have installed youtube-dl with a package manager, pip, setup.py or a tarball, please use that to update. Note that Ubuntu packages do not seem to get updated anymore. Since we are not affiliated with Ubuntu, there is little we can do. Feel free to [report bugs](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/youtube-dl/+filebug) to the [Ubuntu packaging guys](mailto:ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com?subject=outdated%20version%20of%20youtube-dl) - all they have to do is update the package to a somewhat recent version. See above for a way to update. ### Do I always have to pass in `--max-quality FORMAT`, or `-citw`? @@ -511,6 +511,20 @@ If you want to add support for a new site, you can follow this quick list (assum In any case, thank you very much for your contributions! +# EMBEDDING YOUTUBE-DL + +youtube-dl makes the best effort to be a good command-line program, and thus should be callable from any programming language. If you encounter any problems parsing its output, feel free to [create a report](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/new). + +From a Python program, you can embed youtube-dl in a more powerful fashion, like this: + + import youtube_dl + + ydl_opts = {} + with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl: + ydl.download(['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc']) + +Most likely, you'll want to use various options. For a list of what can be done, have a look at [youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py#L69). For a start, if you want to intercept youtube-dl's output, set a `logger` object. + # BUGS Bugs and suggestions should be reported at: . Unless you were prompted so or there is another pertinent reason (e.g. GitHub fails to accept the bug report), please do not send bug reports via personal email.