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| -rwxr-xr-x | youtube-dl | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/youtube-dl b/youtube-dl index 0f1d31c4e..14f5d0b54 100755 --- a/youtube-dl +++ b/youtube-dl @@ -2010,7 +2010,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__': filesystem.add_option('-o', '--output', dest='outtmpl', metavar='TPL', help='output filename template') filesystem.add_option('-a', '--batch-file', - dest='batchfile', metavar='F', help='file containing URLs to download') + dest='batchfile', metavar='F', help='file containing URLs to download (\'-\' for stdin)') filesystem.add_option('-w', '--no-overwrites', action='store_true', dest='nooverwrites', help='do not overwrite files', default=False) filesystem.add_option('-c', '--continue', @@ -2018,12 +2018,16 @@ if __name__ == '__main__': parser.add_option_group(filesystem) (opts, args) = parser.parse_args() - + # Batch file verification batchurls = [] if opts.batchfile is not None: try: - batchurls = open(opts.batchfile, 'r').readlines() + if opts.batchfile == '-': + batchfd = sys.stdin + else: + batchfd = open(opts.batchfile, 'r') + batchurls = batchfd.readlines() batchurls = [x.strip() for x in batchurls] batchurls = [x for x in batchurls if len(x) > 0] except IOError: |