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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/__init__.py21
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index bf616e3b6..6b5187fb6 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -84,7 +84,6 @@ import optparse
import os
import random
import shlex
-import shutil
import sys
@@ -96,7 +95,6 @@ from .utils import (
decodeOption,
get_term_width,
DownloadError,
- get_cachedir,
MaxDownloadsReached,
preferredencoding,
read_batch_urls,
@@ -518,10 +516,10 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
filesystem.add_option('--cookies',
dest='cookiefile', metavar='FILE', help='file to read cookies from and dump cookie jar in')
filesystem.add_option(
- '--cache-dir', dest='cachedir', default=get_cachedir(), metavar='DIR',
+ '--cache-dir', dest='cachedir', default=None, metavar='DIR',
help='Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl can store some downloaded information permanently. By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/youtube-dl or ~/.cache/youtube-dl . At the moment, only YouTube player files (for videos with obfuscated signatures) are cached, but that may change.')
filesystem.add_option(
- '--no-cache-dir', action='store_const', const=None, dest='cachedir',
+ '--no-cache-dir', action='store_const', const=False, dest='cachedir',
help='Disable filesystem caching')
filesystem.add_option(
'--rm-cache-dir', action='store_true', dest='rm_cachedir',
@@ -872,20 +870,7 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
# Remove cache dir
if opts.rm_cachedir:
- if opts.cachedir is None:
- ydl.to_screen(u'No cache dir specified (Did you combine --no-cache-dir and --rm-cache-dir?)')
- else:
- if ('.cache' not in opts.cachedir) or ('youtube-dl' not in opts.cachedir):
- ydl.to_screen(u'Not removing directory %s - this does not look like a cache dir' % opts.cachedir)
- retcode = 141
- else:
- ydl.to_screen(
- u'Removing cache dir %s .' % opts.cachedir,
- skip_eol=True)
- if os.path.exists(opts.cachedir):
- ydl.to_screen(u'.', skip_eol=True)
- shutil.rmtree(opts.cachedir)
- ydl.to_screen(u'.')
+ ydl.cache.remove()
# Maybe do nothing
if (len(all_urls) < 1) and (opts.load_info_filename is None):