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Diffstat (limited to 'youtube_dl')
| -rwxr-xr-x | youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py | 19 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py index 8f65c6499..fe30758ef 100755 --- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py +++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py @@ -773,11 +773,20 @@ class YoutubeDL(object): def extract_info(self, url, download=True, ie_key=None, extra_info={}, process=True, force_generic_extractor=False): - ''' - Returns a list with a dictionary for each video we find. - If 'download', also downloads the videos. - extra_info is a dict containing the extra values to add to each result - ''' + """ + Return a list with a dictionary for each video extracted. + + Arguments: + url -- URL to extract + + Keyword arguments: + download -- whether to download videos during extraction + ie_key -- extractor key hint + extra_info -- dictionary containing the extra values to add to each result + process -- whether to resolve all unresolved references (URLs, playlist items), + must be True for download to work. + force_generic_extractor -- force using the generic extractor + """ if not ie_key and force_generic_extractor: ie_key = 'Generic' |