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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py b/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
index c471cc160..aad12fc1f 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
writeinfojson: Write the video description to a .info.json file
writesubtitles: Write the video subtitles to a .srt file
subtitleslang: Language of the subtitles to download
+ test: Download only first bytes to test the downloader.
"""
params = None
@@ -594,6 +595,9 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
basic_request = compat_urllib_request.Request(url, None, headers)
request = compat_urllib_request.Request(url, None, headers)
+ if self.params.get('test', False):
+ request.add_header('Range','bytes=0-10240')
+
# Establish possible resume length
if os.path.isfile(encodeFilename(tmpfilename)):
resume_len = os.path.getsize(encodeFilename(tmpfilename))