python-based youtube-dl
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http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/
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is sorely missing a flag in order to indicate the maximum file length of the
data feed it would download (well, unless, for some reason, it is considered a
"feature").
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I wonder what developers were thinking about when they came up this nice piece
of code. If you actually look in the code
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data = urllib2.urlopen(basic_request)
content_length = data.info()['Content-Length']
...
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you will see they get the content length of the actual data feed and they also
print the progress status based on the content length
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Implementing an if statement a la:
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max_indicated_content_length = self.params.get('max_content_length', None);
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if( content_length > max_indicated_content_length ){ [do not download, just
report "data feed too large"] }
else{ [do] }
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shouldn't be hard at all
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youtube-dl is under the Creative Commons License copyrighted by 2006-2011
Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez and maintained by him and a group of python developers
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They are the ones keeping a mental map of that project. It would be a plus if
they implement this feature, but anyother python developer can implemented
(please, let me know if/when you do)
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lbrtchx
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