X-Git-Url: http://git.cielonegro.org/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=ecc7302c8465f79ffe34cd73b9522a984767edb9;hb=caff59499c17f1701ca9a6c654d001d70456b210;hp=f10f06ee8c9d26a01a51d7b29bdb93b7b390b4e0;hpb=2101f5d4ccd5e568a2b860596e67d01364b9078b;p=youtube-dl.git diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f10f06ee8..ecc7302c8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -529,14 +529,52 @@ youtube-dl makes the best effort to be a good command-line program, and thus sho From a Python program, you can embed youtube-dl in a more powerful fashion, like this: - import youtube_dl +```python +import youtube_dl - ydl_opts = {} - with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl: - ydl.download(['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc']) +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. +Here's a more complete example of a program that outputs only errors (and a short message after the download is finished), and downloads/converts the video to an mp3 file: + +```python +import youtube_dl + + +class MyLogger(object): + def debug(self, msg): + pass + + def warning(self, msg): + pass + + def error(self, msg): + print(msg) + + +def my_hook(d): + if d['status'] == 'finished': + print('Done downloading, now converting ...') + + +ydl_opts = { + 'format': 'bestaudio/best', + 'postprocessors': [{ + 'key': 'FFmpegExtractAudio', + 'preferredcodec': 'mp3', + 'preferredquality': '192', + }], + 'logger': MyLogger(), + 'progress_hooks': [my_hook], +} +with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl: + ydl.download(['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc']) +``` + # 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. For discussions, join us in the irc channel #youtube-dl on freenode.