From: Philipp Hagemeister Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:11:52 +0000 (+0100) Subject: [README] Highlight code examples X-Git-Url: http://git.oshgnacknak.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=99a0f9824a2b6890998d5d668213974907f9c2de;p=youtube-dl [README] Highlight code examples --- diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 843e01c87..80ef3dcca 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -529,17 +529,19 @@ 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: + ```python 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. 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 @@ -571,6 +573,7 @@ Here's a more complete example of a program that outputs only errors (and a shor } with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl: ydl.download(['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc']) + ``` # BUGS