-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 As already said, you should file your request at https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issue , not here.
A few things to note: * Not all sites necessarily send the Content-Length header. * RTMP URLs would have to be treated differently * Sending a Range header might allow for a better implementation. Why do you want to restrict the filesize of the download in the first place? I can't see a use case, but that doesn't mean there isn't one. Due to me not having lots of time at the moment, your best chance to get any youtube-dl feature implemented is providing a patch (in form of a github pull-request, if possible). - -- Philipp (youtube-dl developer) l...@mail.python.org wrote: > python-based youtube-dl > ~ > http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/ > ~ > 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"). > ~ > I wonder what developers were thinking about when they came up this nice > piece of code. If you actually look in the code > ~ > ... > data = urllib2.urlopen(basic_request) > content_length = data.info()['Content-Length'] > ... > ~ > 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 > ~ > Implementing an if statement a la: > ~ > max_indicated_content_length = self.params.get('max_content_length', None); > ~ > if( content_length > max_indicated_content_length ){ [do not download, just > report "data feed too large"] } > else{ [do] } > ~ > shouldn't be hard at all > ~ > 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 > ~ > 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) > ~ > lbrtchx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREKAAYFAk6z3mMACgkQ9eq1gvr7CFyr1wCgpqf8xuORDC4LBVY8WFmtAufG k+AAoIX+mXa7SGLULP2M67IQ34sBgk1o =duyH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
