[options] Add --no-color

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index dda222fee..e2ec55c90 100755
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
                        If it returns a message, the video is ignored.
                        If it returns None, the video is downloaded.
                        match_filter_func in utils.py is one example for this.
+    no_color:          Do not emit color codes in output.
 
 
     The following parameters are not used by YoutubeDL itself, they are used by
@@ -490,7 +491,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
         else:
             if self.params.get('no_warnings'):
                 return
-            if self._err_file.isatty() and os.name != 'nt':
+            if not self.params.get('no_color') and self._err_file.isatty() and os.name != 'nt':
                 _msg_header = '\033[0;33mWARNING:\033[0m'
             else:
                 _msg_header = 'WARNING:'
@@ -502,7 +503,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
         Do the same as trouble, but prefixes the message with 'ERROR:', colored
         in red if stderr is a tty file.
         '''
-        if self._err_file.isatty() and os.name != 'nt':
+        if not self.params.get('no_color') and self._err_file.isatty() and os.name != 'nt':
             _msg_header = '\033[0;31mERROR:\033[0m'
         else:
             _msg_header = 'ERROR:'