source-address not working as expected?

[Elite]

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Since youtube was rate limiting my server ip, I got new ip allocated from my web host and added it to eth0 using ip addr add xx.xx.xx.YYY/24 dev eth0, I can see both the ip's when using ip addr command.

inet xx.xxx.xxx.xxx/24 brd xx.xxx.xxx.xxx scope global eth0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet xx.xxx.xxx.YYY/24 scope global secondary eth0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

To make use of the new ip address, I used 'source-address':source_ip, in my python script but the resulting url from youtube still has my older IP address.

What am I missing here?

[remitamine]

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py#L264

[Elite]

The syntax seems fine, can you pls tell what am I missing here?

[remitamine]

it's source_address not source-address.

[Elite]

Pls. fix the front page options, I copy pasted from there.

[dstftw]

These are command line options not python API options.

[Elite]

OK, go it.

However, I guess both some should be in harmony for ease of use and clear understanding.

[dstftw]

That's technically impossible since not all options have the same meaning.