Socket Mode

[sirinath]

Is it possible to add support to where you can start YTDL in such a way it will start listening to a socket.

Any command line parameters can generally sent through the socket. YTDL will then run as if evoked with these parameters on the command line and re direct the information as a response to the client of initiate another socket connection(s) and write these results to the appropriate sockets provided at command line.

If everything is sent through 1 socket then a user provided tag delimiter would be inserted for the appropriate information.

Similar to the following requests but input / output specified is a socket connection.
#1899
#1896

[jaimeMF]

You should write a wrapper around youtube-dl for doing it. You just need to pass the arguments you receive to youtube-dl and redirect the output to the socket you prefer.
It's probably easer than adding it inside youtube-dl.

[phihag]

Yes, this is definitly out of scope for youtube-dl itself, and can be easily implemented via a wrapper.