Possibility to pipe downloaded file to Django response

[nlhkh]

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I am using youtube_dl with Django. Currently I have youtube_dl download files to a temporary location, and send that file to a request. I wonder if I can somehow stream the file directly to the client without having to materialize a file on disk. This is possible with node_ytdl_core because NodeJS has good support for async operation and pipeline. I can also do this with Java.

I think this is doable if youtube_dl exposes a stream object programmatically, but I have not yet found out how to do so.

[yan12125]

Use -o - with subprocess.Popen?

[nlhkh]

Could you elaborate? I thought -o is just to indicate a final filename template.

[nlhkh]

I guess -o - will pipe the file content to stdout?

[yan12125]

I guess -o - will pipe the file content to stdout?

Yes you're right.

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No feedback for a long time, so I assume things are working fine. Feel free to leave comments if there's still something wrong.

[nlhkh]

Thanks :)

On 8 Nov 2016, at 16.08, Yen Chi Hsuan notifications@github.com wrote:

No feedback for a long time, so I assume things are working fine. Feel free to leave comments if there's still something wrong.

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