Requests Through HTTP Request

[sirinath]

Similar to #1906 is it possible to provide send commands reaceive data through HTTP perhaps using something like cURL (http://curl.haxx.se/) to send commands to a running instance of YTDL do add new downloads.

[jaimeMF]

Do you want to be able to start a download using a HTTP request?
If that's the case, I would recommend you to write a wrapper around youtube-dl to do it. Maintaining it inside youtube-dl would be hard and probably out of the scope.

[sirinath]

I was thinking on

1. easy integration with as part of other programs and use in remote scripts
2. using it remotely away from the computer like what may downloaders let you do.

[sirinath]

What I am trying to get at is this. If the YTDL process is to provide a service to other processes without being platform specific you need to go through either 1 or many of these:

1. Pipes
2. File system
3. Sockets
4. REST
   Etc.

This interface can be used to in scripts, and a simple UI to interact with this process with some interactiveness. Also implement functions in downloaders like
Remove access
Completion moving
Library
Open after downloading
Introspect and request data YDL has
etc.

[jaimeMF]

As said in #1906, this is easier to implement with a wrapper outside youtube-dl.
If you want to make it platform agnostic, you can write a python program that calls youtube-dl and serves the information with a REST api.