Is there a way to obtain any of the --get-x options and download the actual file as well? Question 2: how to bypass geo restrictions?

[Alanz2223]

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Question 1 - I would like to download a video and convert it to mp3 but I would also like to extract the title, duration and thumbnail. It seems that the running all the options at the same time will only output the extracted options without downloading and converting. For example

youtube-dl --get-title -x --audio-format mp3 --output /mypath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqEbCxg2bNI

will ONLY output the title without actually downloading the video and extracting the audio. but whenever the I use options exclusively, everything works as expected. So is there a way to do both in a single step?

Question 2 - There are certain video that have geo restrictions where I am passing the --geo-bypass option to download it but it still fails (I am using the latest youtube-dl version) so what I tried doing was setting the 'x-forwarded-for' header myself by passing the option --add-header x-forwarded-for:CUSTOM_IP but it still fails. Is there a way to specify my own IP that the request will be set to?

[dstftw]

1. Parse from --print-json.
2. #4738 (comment)