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| -rwxr-xr-x | youtube-dl | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/youtube-dl b/youtube-dl index 545bcb653..0ec7adb1d 100755 --- a/youtube-dl +++ b/youtube-dl @@ -65,9 +65,10 @@ class FileDownloader(object): For this, file downloader objects have a method that allows InfoExtractors to be registered in a given order. When it is passed a URL, the file downloader handles it to the first InfoExtractor it - finds that reports being able to handle it. The InfoExtractor returns - all the information to the FileDownloader and the latter downloads the - file or does whatever it's instructed to do. + finds that reports being able to handle it. The InfoExtractor extracts + all the information about the video or videos the URL refers to, and + asks the FileDownloader to process the video information, possibly + downloading the video. File downloaders accept a lot of parameters. In order not to saturate the object constructor with arguments, it receives a dictionary of @@ -360,9 +361,10 @@ class InfoExtractor(object): Information extractors are the classes that, given a URL, extract information from the video (or videos) the URL refers to. This information includes the real video URL, the video title and simplified - title, author and others. It is returned in a list of dictionaries when - calling its extract() method. It is a list because a URL can refer to - more than one video (think of playlists). The dictionaries must include + title, author and others. The information is stored in a dictionary + which is then passed to the FileDownloader. The FileDownloader + processes this information possibly downloading the video to the file + system, among other possible outcomes. The dictionaries must include the following fields: id: Video identifier. |