From a3927cf7eefd2318cdfb44cdb213b3810ea7627b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Jaime=20Marqui=CC=81nez=20Ferra=CC=81ndiz?= Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 21:55:20 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Allow to initialize a YoutubeDL object without parameters Having to pass the 'outtmpl' parameter feels really strange when you just want to extract the info of a video. --- youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py index a1ef3a94a..46635bce1 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py +++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object): _num_downloads = None _screen_file = None - def __init__(self, params): + def __init__(self, params={}): """Create a FileDownloader object with the given options.""" self._ies = [] self._ies_instances = {} @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object): self.params = params self.fd = FileDownloader(self, self.params) - if '%(stitle)s' in self.params['outtmpl']: + if '%(stitle)s' in self.params.get('outtmpl', ''): self.report_warning(u'%(stitle)s is deprecated. Use the %(title)s and the --restrict-filenames flag(which also secures %(uploader)s et al) instead.') self._setup_opener() -- 2.40.0