programming hook for getting info_dict

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Hello, everybody,

I want to embed youtube-dl into my project, and I want to obtain the info_dict before the actually download. I checked youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py but find noting. There only exists a forcejson option related to this purpose. I can write a simple logger and filter the dumpled messages to obtain this json string. However, this implementation is not clean and graceful.

So, is there some hooks can help?

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YoutubeDL.extract_info(url, download=False).