The following parameters are not used by YoutubeDL itself, they are used by
the FileDownloader:
nopart, updatetime, buffersize, ratelimit, min_filesize, max_filesize, test,
- noresizebuffer, retries, continuedl, noprogress, consoletitle
+ noresizebuffer, retries, continuedl, noprogress, consoletitle,
+ xattr_set_filesize.
The following options are used by the post processors:
prefer_ffmpeg: If True, use ffmpeg instead of avconv if both are available,
'verboseOutput': opts.verbose,
'exec_cmd': opts.exec_cmd,
})
+ if opts.xattr_set_filesize:
+ try:
+ import xattr
+ except ImportError:
+ parser.error('setting filesize xattr requested but python-xattr is not available')
ydl_opts = {
'usenetrc': opts.usenetrc,
'external_downloader': opts.external_downloader,
'list_thumbnails': opts.list_thumbnails,
'playlist_items': opts.playlist_items,
+ 'xattr_set_filesize': opts.xattr_set_filesize,
}
with YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
Available options:
- verbose: Print additional info to stdout.
- quiet: Do not print messages to stdout.
- ratelimit: Download speed limit, in bytes/sec.
- retries: Number of times to retry for HTTP error 5xx
- buffersize: Size of download buffer in bytes.
- noresizebuffer: Do not automatically resize the download buffer.
- continuedl: Try to continue downloads if possible.
- noprogress: Do not print the progress bar.
- logtostderr: Log messages to stderr instead of stdout.
- consoletitle: Display progress in console window's titlebar.
- nopart: Do not use temporary .part files.
- updatetime: Use the Last-modified header to set output file timestamps.
- test: Download only first bytes to test the downloader.
- min_filesize: Skip files smaller than this size
- max_filesize: Skip files larger than this size
+ verbose: Print additional info to stdout.
+ quiet: Do not print messages to stdout.
+ ratelimit: Download speed limit, in bytes/sec.
+ retries: Number of times to retry for HTTP error 5xx
+ buffersize: Size of download buffer in bytes.
+ noresizebuffer: Do not automatically resize the download buffer.
+ continuedl: Try to continue downloads if possible.
+ noprogress: Do not print the progress bar.
+ logtostderr: Log messages to stderr instead of stdout.
+ consoletitle: Display progress in console window's titlebar.
+ nopart: Do not use temporary .part files.
+ updatetime: Use the Last-modified header to set output file timestamps.
+ test: Download only first bytes to test the downloader.
+ min_filesize: Skip files smaller than this size
+ max_filesize: Skip files larger than this size
+ xattr_set_filesize: Set ytdl.filesize user xattribute with expected size.
+ (experimenatal)
Subclasses of this one must re-define the real_download method.
"""
except (OSError, IOError) as err:
self.report_error('unable to open for writing: %s' % str(err))
return False
+
+ if self.params.get('xattr_set_filesize', False) and data_len is not None:
+ try:
+ import xattr
+ xattr.setxattr(tmpfilename, 'user.ytdl.filesize', str(data_len))
+ except(OSError, IOError, ImportError) as err:
+ self.report_error('unable to set filesize xattr: %s' % str(err))
+
try:
stream.write(data_block)
except (IOError, OSError) as err:
'--playlist-reverse',
action='store_true',
help='Download playlist videos in reverse order')
+ downloader.add_option(
+ '--xattr-set-filesize',
+ dest='xattr_set_filesize', action='store_true',
+ help='(experimental) set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with expected filesize')
downloader.add_option(
'--external-downloader',
dest='external_downloader', metavar='COMMAND',