[downloader] Lay groundwork for external downloaders.

This comes with a very simply implementation for wget; the real work is in setting up the infrastructure.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/youtube_dl/downloader/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/downloader/__init__.py
index 2aca3cab5..eff1122c5 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/downloader/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/downloader/__init__.py
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 from .common import FileDownloader
+from .external import get_external_downloader
+from .f4m import F4mFD
 from .hls import HlsFD
 from .hls import NativeHlsFD
 from .http import HttpFD
 from .mplayer import MplayerFD
 from .rtmp import RtmpFD
-from .f4m import F4mFD
 
 from ..utils import (
     determine_protocol,
@@ -27,6 +28,12 @@ def get_suitable_downloader(info_dict, params={}):
     protocol = determine_protocol(info_dict)
     info_dict['protocol'] = protocol
 
+    external_downloader = params.get('external_downloader')
+    if external_downloader is not None:
+        ed = get_external_downloader(external_downloader)
+        if ed.supports(info_dict):
+            return ed
+
     return PROTOCOL_MAP.get(protocol, HttpFD)