Create --max-actual-downloads

[viktorlindgren]

Hi

The --max-downloads does not care about if the video has been downloaded now or not.
For backwardcompability it is better to create a new option rather then change.

In YoutubeDL.py line 546 should be moved to line 694 instead if the new option is active.

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/7193498811cb17a66ca57569a8588adb28ba2b27/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py#L546

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/7193498811cb17a66ca57569a8588adb28ba2b27/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py#L694
with same indention as Line 695

[phihag]

What's the use case for this option? I'm not even certain what --max-downloads is used for.

[viktorlindgren]

Hi

In my scenario I don't want to download to many videos as I have very little storage space. Therefore limiting the numbers of downloads when downloading from a playlist is needed.

[phihag]

But wouldn't it be much better to specify the size of the free disk space (or even gather that automatically)? If I have 10G free space, I'd be fine with downloading a hundred short video ads, but wouldn't want two gigantic 8GB-a-piece videos.

By the way, if you want to limit the number of items you download from a playlist, you can simply use --playlist-end.

[viktorlindgren]

A storage option here can also work. Maybe even better but requires a little bit more of work to code.

--playlist-end counts entries also. The bad part with that is if the playlist change. I use --match-title to pick my videos.