Can't download first video that matches filter, with --max-downloads set to 1

[JonasCz]

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I'm writing a movie trailer downloader tool, using youtube-dl for downloading. I want to download the first video result (which matches a set of filters) for a given YouTube search string. So far, I'm using this:

youtube-dl ytsearch:"180° South: Conquerors of the Useless 2010 trailer" --match-filter "duration <= 360" --max-downloads 1

This gives me:

[youtube:search] query "180° South: Conquerors of the Useless 2010 trailer": Downloading page 1
[download] Downloading playlist: 180° South: Conquerors of the Useless 2010 trailer
[youtube:search] playlist 180° South: Conquerors of the Useless 2010 trailer: Collected 1 video ids (downloading 1 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 1
[youtube] mqhh7c1SUHY: Downloading webpage
[youtube] mqhh7c1SUHY: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] mqhh7c1SUHY: Extracting video information
[download] 180° South does not pass filter duration <= 360, skipping ..
[download] Finished downloading playlist: 180° South: Conquerors of the Useless 2010 trailer

...Which does not actually download anything, since the first result does not match the filter (video too long), and once the video info page has been downloaded, it seems to count as a download, and, since I have max-downloads set to 1, it does not go on to try the next video in the search results.

Is there a way to make this work ?

If there isn't, I think it might be worthwhile to make --max-downloads track the videos that were actually downloaded, and not include the ones that failed the filters. (?)

[JonasCz]

Nevermind, I didn't realize I had to put a count after ytsearch, using ytsearch10: now and it works.