youtube-dl can I store the size of the video in a variable to access outside

[sant527]

I am using linux and youtube-dl

I saw
filesize: The number of bytes, if known in advance
filesize_approx: An estimate for the number of bytes

how to store that in a vriable in my shell script.

I dont want to download videos > 20MB or so.

[yan12125]

how to store that in a vriable in my shell script.

Use -j and parse the result

I dont want to download videos > 20MB or so.

--max-filesize can help.