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authorJacob Chapman <7908073+chapmanjacobd@users.noreply.github.com>2021-05-05 03:31:24 +0700
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-05-05 03:31:24 +0700
commitb797c1cc750b1f617678281731303611e21c70d0 (patch)
treec825a6425fffcf06c36ca4f013db1d71961f2577
parent04be55307a3a13f7091a9a2970a1cc20863769e3 (diff)
downloadyoutube-dl-b797c1cc750b1f617678281731303611e21c70d0.tar.xz
[YoutubeDL] Improve extract_info doc (#28946)
Co-authored-by: Sergey M. <dstftw@gmail.com>
-rwxr-xr-xyoutube_dl/YoutubeDL.py19
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index 8f65c6499..fe30758ef 100755
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -773,11 +773,20 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
def extract_info(self, url, download=True, ie_key=None, extra_info={},
process=True, force_generic_extractor=False):
- '''
- Returns a list with a dictionary for each video we find.
- If 'download', also downloads the videos.
- extra_info is a dict containing the extra values to add to each result
- '''
+ """
+ Return a list with a dictionary for each video extracted.
+
+ Arguments:
+ url -- URL to extract
+
+ Keyword arguments:
+ download -- whether to download videos during extraction
+ ie_key -- extractor key hint
+ extra_info -- dictionary containing the extra values to add to each result
+ process -- whether to resolve all unresolved references (URLs, playlist items),
+ must be True for download to work.
+ force_generic_extractor -- force using the generic extractor
+ """
if not ie_key and force_generic_extractor:
ie_key = 'Generic'