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| author | pukkandan <pukkandan.ytdlp@gmail.com> | 2023-06-22 04:54:39 +0530 |
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| committer | pukkandan <pukkandan.ytdlp@gmail.com> | 2023-06-22 13:03:07 +0530 |
| commit | b4e0d75848e9447cee2cd3646ce54d4744a7ff56 (patch) | |
| tree | 2146220a62f40ace502ed17b1653b9632d29dcbe /yt_dlp/options.py | |
| parent | 71dc18fa29263a1ff0472c23d81bfc8dd4422d48 (diff) | |
Improve `--download-sections`
* Support negative time-ranges
* Add `*from-url` to obey time-ranges in URL
Closes #7248
Diffstat (limited to 'yt_dlp/options.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | yt_dlp/options.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/yt_dlp/options.py b/yt_dlp/options.py index 9d6dbec9f..163809706 100644 --- a/yt_dlp/options.py +++ b/yt_dlp/options.py @@ -1012,8 +1012,9 @@ def create_parser(): '--download-sections', metavar='REGEX', dest='download_ranges', action='append', help=( - 'Download only chapters whose title matches the given regular expression. ' - 'Time ranges prefixed by a "*" can also be used in place of chapters to download the specified range. ' + 'Download only chapters that match the regular expression. ' + 'A "*" prefix denotes time-range instead of chapter. Negative timestamps are calculated from the end. ' + '"*from-url" can be used to download between the "start_time" and "end_time" extracted from the URL. ' 'Needs ffmpeg. This option can be used multiple times to download multiple sections, ' 'e.g. --download-sections "*10:15-inf" --download-sections "intro"')) downloader.add_option( |