How to get estimated download time and download-speed programmatically?

[Elite]

When importing YTDL in python and using the below to download with progress_hook, how to get the estimated download time and download-speed programmatically?

Also, how to capture other messages like info and error's ?

with YoutubeDL(ydl_options) as ydl:
            ydl.add_default_info_extractors()
            ydl.fd.add_progress_hook(progress_hook)
            ydl.download([self.url])

[jaimeMF]

They are stored in the eta and speed fields of the dictionary (look at downloader.http to see all the info that is sent). The ETA is in seconds and the speed in bytes/second.

For getting the messages you just need to set the logger field of ydl_options to a Logger like object (http://docs.python.org/2/library/logging.html#logger-objects), you just need to create an object with the debug and error methods.

[Elite]

Thanks, can you pls. provide an example snippet of consuming the logger object.

[Elite]

Got it -

 logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG,
                    format='%(asctime)s %(name)-12s %(levelname)-8s %(message)s',
                    filename='TRACE.log',
                    filemode='a')
        console = logging.StreamHandler()
        console.setLevel(logging.INFO)
        consoleFormatter = logging.Formatter('%(name)-12s: %(levelname)-8s %(message)s')
        console.setFormatter(consoleFormatter)
        logging.getLogger('').addHandler(console)
        myLog = logging.getLogger("debug")

This works and logs to the TRACE.log, but I have no clue how to emit and consume these messages in python script (not file), any ideas? For example handle situation when an error occurs?

[jaimeMF]

Sure, instead of creating a real logging.Logger object you create an object with the debug and info methods:

from youtube_dl import YoutubeDL

class Logger(object):
    def debug(self, msg):
        print('debug msg==> %s' % msg)
    def error(self, msg):
        print('error msg==> %s' % msg)

opts = {
    'logger': Logger(),
}
ydl = YoutubeDL(opts)

with ydl:
    ydl.add_default_info_extractors()
    ydl.download(['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc'])

Then you can do anything you want with the messages, write them to a GUI, store them show an error dialog if you receive an error message.

[Elite]

Thanks :)

[ghost]

@jaimeMF wow looks simple and is better than what i was thinking... something like

try:
    ydl.download(['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc'])
except:
    print "Unexpected error:", sys.exc_info()