Make --metadata-from-title non fatal

Output a warning if the metadata can't be parsed from the title (and don't write any metadata) instead of raising a critical error.

diff --git a/youtube_dl/postprocessor/metadatafromtitle.py b/youtube_dl/postprocessor/metadatafromtitle.py
index 42377fa0f0bde0d3fa6ae578c6eaa0fe4a73474d..f7c831c671abf0a3d5445b7be3e9d9f5e3f1c17c 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/postprocessor/metadatafromtitle.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/postprocessor/metadatafromtitle.py
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ class MetadataFromTitlePP(PostProcessor):
         title = info['title']
         match = re.match(self._titleregex, title)
         if match is None:
-            raise MetadataFromTitlePPError('Could not interpret title of video as "%s"' % self._titleformat)
+            self._downloader.to_screen('[fromtitle] Could not interpret title of video as "%s"' % self._titleformat)
+            return [], info
         for attribute, value in match.groupdict().items():
             value = match.group(attribute)
             info[attribute] = value