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What does Youtube-dl use filesystem caching for? #24888

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YousufSSyed opened this issue Apr 19, 2020 · 2 comments
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What does Youtube-dl use filesystem caching for? #24888

YousufSSyed opened this issue Apr 19, 2020 · 2 comments
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@YousufSSyed
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@YousufSSyed YousufSSyed commented Apr 19, 2020

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I noticed that the parameter --no-cache-dir "Disables filesystem caching." What does Yotube-dl use caching for?

(I had posted a question earlier but it was closed by dstftw who said "Unsuprisingly provides cache mechanism." but I want a more specific answer)

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@danfiscus danfiscus commented Apr 20, 2020

Via the helpstring in the options file:

At the moment, only YouTube player files (for videos with obfuscated signatures) are cached, but that may change.

Sure enough, the cache for my youtube-dl has two 1KB .json files, each containing an array of integer values.

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@dstftw dstftw commented Apr 20, 2020

Every extractor caches what it needs to cache. Ask more specific question and you'll get more specific answer.

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