[Discussion]Adding save-state to youtube-dl

[sahutd]

hello peeps,
i would like to propose a new feature to this software - an ability to save the current state and then be able to resume at a later time.the restart could be done by passing a command line arg such as youtube-dl --resume-state or something else to that effect.
the process would something like,
before the start of each subprocess(like download,extract etc.)save the state of the current execution in a predefined format into a state file.if the program happens to terminate for whatever reason during that subprocess,we will have all the information required to get youtube-dl to that state at any time.

i would like to know if the community would be interested in such a feature.if they are,i too would like to contribute to shaping this feature

bye

NS:if such a feature exist,feel free to close this issue.

[phihag]

While I wouldn't necessarily deny such a feature, I'm not sure what the feature would be used for. You can just rerun youtube-dl and it will gather all the necessary information. Can you elaborate on the feature's usage scenarios?

Note that the state is often short-lived because access tokens expire, and the requesting IP address must usually stay constant. You may also want to have a look at the --load-info option, which allows you to divide extraction and download into two steps.