Questions on the binary version and about the CLI

[cooperhammond]

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I have a couple questions: is it possible to specify a logger or progress hook through the CLI? Can the binary release of youtube-dl still be "imported" into the rest of a python file? If it's not possible, then can a binary version that can do that be made? On that same tangent, is the binary release of youtube-dl only for the CLI?

[yan12125]

Yes it's possible:

$ python
Python 3.6.1 (default, Mar 27 2017, 00:27:06) 
[GCC 6.3.1 20170306] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path.append('./youtube-dl')
>>> import youtube_dl
>>> youtube_dl
<module 'youtube_dl' from 'youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py'>