How do I dump JSONs from a search as soon as they are available?

[costcoterrorist]

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How do I dump video JSON's as they become available?

Running youtube-dl as a shell application with youtube-dl --dump-json "ytsearch8:vinesauce" dumps each JSON to stdout as soon as it finishes. However, running it as a python module causes it to be buffered until the entire search is finished:

ydl_opts = {
    'simulate': True
}
with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
    print(ydl.extract_info('ytsearch8:vinesauce'))

How do I get JSON's as soon as they are available in a python script?

[dstftw]

By splitting into several requests.