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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/extractor/pluralsight.py3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/pluralsight.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/pluralsight.py
index 16de0fd1c..3dee616c1 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/pluralsight.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/pluralsight.py
@@ -139,6 +139,9 @@ class PluralsightIE(PluralsightBaseIE):
AllowedQuality('mp4', ('low', 'medium', 'high',)),
)
+ # In order to minimize the number of calls to ViewClip API and reduce
+ # the probability of being throttled or banned by Pluralsight we will request
+ # only single format until explicit listformats was requested.
if self._downloader.params.get('listformats', False):
allowed_qualities = ALLOWED_QUALITIES
else: