Ask user for url if none is given. In other words, make a youtube-dl interactive mode.

[briantho]

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Hi, I've been using youtube-dl on windows for a while now, and like it a lot. One thing I'd recommend adding as a feature is a interactive mode. Basically, if I were to run youtube-dl without putting in any info, url, options, etc, just ask for it. Basically, if no url is detected ask for one. For example, on windows, and under command prompt, if I were to just open youtube-dl without any parameters, it simply says
"error: You must provide at least one URL". now, if it were interactive it should say something like "no url detected, please input one now" followed by a few follow up questions regarding quality, and other options. The main benefit of this would be I could just run youtube-dl.exe from windows without having to open up command prompt, cd to location of the exe, and run it along with the url specified. This way would be much easier as I could just double click the youtube-dl.exe, and input all the necessary info. Please let me know what you think, as a interactive mode would be very beneficial to new users of this great program. I don't believe this would be very hard to accomplish either, but again, let me know what you think. Thanks, and keep up the good work of this program.
Briantho

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.11.15
[debug] Python version 2.7.11 - Windows-2003Server-5.2.3790-SP2
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-75573-g1d0487f, ffprobe N-75573-g1d0487f, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
...
<end of log>

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
• Single video: https://youtu.be/BaW_jenozKc
• Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lCao7KL_QFVb7Iudeipvc2BCavECqzc

Note that youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to copyright infringement. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.

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[dstftw]

No. If you want interactivity write a wrapper script.

[briantho]

ok... kinda figured this would be dismissed.....
oh well.....