Please add --external-downloader-location PATH

[someziggyman]

It's probably not an issue at all, rather a feature request.

Noticed, that if I install Axel or Aria2c external downloaders via Brew, downloads are working like a charm, fast and efficient.

However, if I remove it from Brew's packages destination folder ( /usr/local/cellar/axel/..) and would like to use my own downloader build, youtube-dl uses its default one.

I understand, that this is expected behavior, but that'd be awesome, if we had an option like --external-downloader-location PATH, just like --ffmpeg-location PATH.

If this is an overkill, maybe youtube-dl could also consider looking for external downloader executables, at least with in the same folder and only then proceed to its default downloader..

Or am I missing something and I can somehow achieve this behavior with the latest build? maybe, I could just edit external.py file, but unfortunately my Python knowledge is equal to 0.

[dstftw]

You are missing correctly set $PATH env variable.