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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index b822930cb..b7393fd79 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
cookiefile: File name where cookies should be read from and dumped to.
nocheckcertificate:Do not verify SSL certificates
proxy: URL of the proxy server to use
+ socket_timeout: Time to wait for unresponsive hosts, in seconds
The following parameters are not used by YoutubeDL itself, they are used by
the FileDownloader:
@@ -969,7 +970,8 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
proxy_map.update(handler.proxies)
write_string(u'[debug] Proxy map: ' + compat_str(proxy_map) + u'\n')
- def _setup_opener(self, timeout=20):
+ def _setup_opener(self):
+ timeout = float(self.params.get('socket_timeout', 600))
opts_cookiefile = self.params.get('cookiefile')
opts_proxy = self.params.get('proxy')