Video data

[DrRonne]

Hello, thank you for making this library, it is awesome and works great!

One addition I would suggest, is to make something that can check video data before you download the video. For example, I only want to download videos that are shorter than one minute. Right now I would have to download it and check the time afterwards. It would be cool if I could check this beforehand.

[elmoiv]

Thanks @DrRonne for your Ideas. I will consider these features in my next update.
Stay tuned!

[bcornw2]

if you can afford the temporary disk space and the runtime speed, you can do what I do and check the size of the file after download, then delete it if its the wrong size, or move it to the correct location if its good to go. I know its not optimal but it was only like 2 extra loc after the initial call, and adds like 2 seconds per operation.

[elmoiv]

I found a workaround for viewing video size and duration before downloading.
I am implementing it now so you can decide a maximum size or duration so if the targeted video quality does not meet the requirements passed, It will return with error number instead.

Here is a piece of my current work:

...
        self.duration = getDuration(self.page)
        self.size = int(
                    self.head(
                                self.video,
                                _proxies=self.proxies
                            ).headers['Content-Length']
                        )
...

The corresponding attributes will be max_d and max_s:

...
   def __init__(
               ...
                max_d=1e1000,
                max_s=1e1000,
               ...
                ):
        ...
        self.max_d, self.max_s = max_d, max_s
        ...
...

Stay tuned :)

[elmoiv]

Published v1.0.9:

• Added the ability to disable logging.
• Maximum video size can be set.
• Maximum video duration can be set.

To download videos shorter than 1 minute do the following:

from redvid import Downloader

reddit = Downloader()
reddit.max_d = 60  # 60 seconds
# more than 3 minutes video example
reddit.url = 'https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/ho5ml9/former_judges_michael_conahan_and_mark_ciavarella/'
reddit.download()

Now if the video exceeds 1 minutes, nothing will be downloaded and function will return error number corresponding to duration which equals 1.