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| author | Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> | 2014-12-09 10:58:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> | 2014-12-09 10:58:06 +0100 |
| commit | f58766ce5cc5a1c6d651560591bad119787e94b2 (patch) | |
| tree | 14860577a9044267680572d8e1f1ead44edd57a1 | |
| parent | 15644a40df9881162bfdeec6e4f6b798894f0e47 (diff) | |
[extractor/common] Document ie_key in url results
| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/extractor/common.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py index 2faaf6226..cfd25cd21 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py @@ -174,9 +174,10 @@ class InfoExtractor(object): _type "url" indicates that the video must be extracted from another location, possibly by a different extractor. Its only required key is: "url" - the next URL to extract. - - Additionally, it may have properties believed to be identical to the - resolved entity, for example "title" if the title of the referred video is + The key "ie_key" can be set to the class name (minus the trailing "IE", + e.g. "Youtube") if the extractor class is known in advance. + Additionally, the dictionary may have any properties of the resolved entity + known in advance, for example "title" if the title of the referred video is known ahead of time. |