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@@ -511,6 +511,20 @@ If you want to add support for a new site, you can follow this quick list (assum In any case, thank you very much for your contributions! +# EMBEDDING YOUTUBE-DL + +youtube-dl makes the best effort to be a good command-line program, and thus should be callable from any programming language. If you encounter any problems parsing its output, feel free to [create a report](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/new). + +From a Python program, you can embed youtube-dl in a more powerful fashion, like this: + + import youtube_dl + + ydl_opts = {} + with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl: + ydl.download(['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc']) + +Most likely, you'll want to use various options. For a list of what can be done, have a look at [youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py#L69). For a start, if you want to intercept youtube-dl's output, set a `logger` object. + # BUGS Bugs and suggestions should be reported at: <https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues> . Unless you were prompted so or there is another pertinent reason (e.g. GitHub fails to accept the bug report), please do not send bug reports via personal email. |