Accessing the downloaded file.

[Joaobranquinho]

I've looked through the documentation and haven't been able to locate this "feature"
I use embed youtube-dl in python. Is there anyway for me to access the just downloaded file?

[siddht4]

the downloaded file should be where your embed youtube-dl project/code exists if not anyways overrided with --config-location PATH or --output TEMPLATE or config i.e https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#configuration.

I want to make sure you are talking about the downloaded audio/video from the embed youtube-dl,not youtube-dl code in anyways to add/import the youtube-dl project

[dstftw]

_filename field of video info dict.

[Joaobranquinho]

@dstftw
After inspecting the info dict that I obtained using the code bellow:

with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
    info_dict = ydl.extract_info(self.url)
    pprint(info_dict)

I wasn't able to find the _filename field. All I found was filesize

[siddht4]

@Joaobranquinho you need to change/modify your ydl_opts for this one

example :
ydl_opts ={ 'format': '720p/best', '_filename':'[path]/[file_name]', # [path] : means the entire folder structure, if the path , if its ignored the downloaded file will be named based on your file naming structure where your embed code is 'postprocessors': [], 'logger': MyLogger(), 'progress_hooks': [my_hook], }

If you need more information try visiting the code https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py#L1679 as mentioned by @dstftw

[Moriand]

@siddht4 Is this great, what more options do I have with ydl_opts?

For example, I want to change the output name, get the video quality I want to download "360, 480, 720", I also want to know how I download the subtitle of the video.

Where can I place the ffmpeg folder

[siddht4]

ydl_opts is a dictionary object for youtube-dl. You can vist https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py#L1679 to get all the available options. Output name aka file name can be renamed through _filename parameters. For subtitle use allsubtitle and set it to true

[siddht4]

For ffmpeg just make sure its set to global path. Explicitly mentioning is not required

[Moriand]

hello @siddht4 It is still somewhat understandable, could you say how I start or, what options do I have ?, for example: how do I get the video quality list -> 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p.
I can put this in print, but how do I select only one of these, example 360p or 480p ?, and that only this download.
example

ydl_opts {
  '' = '' # what other options can I include, example quality of movie
}

[siddht4]

@Moriand
Answering your 2nd question
{ 'format': '480p/360p}

would force youtube-dl to download 480p file format. If its not present then the next one 360p is downloaded. otherwise it will give/return error.

[siddht4]

@Moriand If you really are not understanding or facing issue. Comment here. Still I am providing link to some of the exisitng embed code I have .

Code #1 https://github.com/siddht4/youtube_dl_custom/blob/master_1/test/test_2.py To download just the meta info