Get youtube-dl connection info

[vanilla38]

Hello, is ther a way to display wich ip address is used when downloading with youtube-dl ? I want to be sure my ipv6 addresses are functional.

Thanks.

[phihag]

Thank your for the suggestion, we may indeed be able to output whether IPv6 is in use, but I think that's somewhat specific and should only be added in a future --debug flag (which would also output all the data we send or receive). I hesitate to print out the public IP every time --verbose is given (although that may be a good debugging aid), because it would rely on https://yt-dl.org/ip being up all the time.

In the meantime, you can use netstat (say, with the options -tnp on Linux) to see which connection type youtube-dl usese.

[dstftw]

This is now available with --call-home.