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Postprocessing with --exec does not work with --skip-download #19284

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rattletat opened this issue Feb 20, 2019 · 1 comment
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Postprocessing with --exec does not work with --skip-download #19284

rattletat opened this issue Feb 20, 2019 · 1 comment
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@rattletat rattletat commented Feb 20, 2019

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youtube-dl --write-auto-sub --sub-lang de --sub-format ttml --skip-download --exec "mv {} Test.txt" SomeYoutubeVideoID

The exec option does not work when skipping video downloads. I like to download the subtitles of a video, but not the video itself, and rename the ttml file afterwards.

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@dstftw dstftw commented Feb 20, 2019

This is expected behavior for now.

@dstftw dstftw closed this Feb 20, 2019
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