Return completed flag for use in script?

[FredLackeyOfficial]

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Is there a way for youtube-dl to load the manifest of videos to download and return a status or code (especially in quiet mode) to indicate if all of the videos have been downloaded or not? I would like to use this status in a script to determine if work still needs to be done. For example, if downloading an entire Youtube channel or Pluralsight course.

[dstftw]

What signal are you talking about? When you run youtube-dl either as a process or a python script using YoutubeDL.download or so, it won't return until the work is done (assuming you you pass ignore errors option). When it returns then it's done - that is your signal.