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Diffstat (limited to 'youtube_dl/extractor/common.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/extractor/common.py | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py index 77726ee24..b577c9e6d 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py @@ -52,8 +52,19 @@ class InfoExtractor(object): view_count: How many users have watched the video on the platform. urlhandle: [internal] The urlHandle to be used to download the file, like returned by urllib.request.urlopen - - The fields should all be Unicode strings. + formats: A list of dictionaries for each format available, it must + be ordered from worst to best quality. Potential fields: + * url Mandatory. The URL of the video file + * ext Will be calculated from url if missing + * format A human-readable description of the format + ("mp4 container with h264/opus"). + Calculated from width and height if missing. + * format_id A short description of the format + ("mp4_h264_opus" or "19") + * width Width of the video, if known + * height Height of the video, if known + + Unless mentioned otherwise, the fields should be Unicode strings. Subclasses of this one should re-define the _real_initialize() and _real_extract() methods and define a _VALID_URL regexp. |