Pass useful information via STDOUT

[kevinburke]

A common flow for me is something like

• download a file
• perform an operation on the just-downloaded file

Currently I have to download the file, identify the filename as part of the output (Destination: blah), then manually take action - it's impossible to predict the filename beforehand.

It would be really nice if there was a flag that made all of the "Downloading webpage" etc information go to stderr, and the filename get printed to stdout, so you can pipe it to further programs or capture it in a shell script.

For reference, this is what curl does by default - the information about file transfer is sent to stderr so the downloaded webpage can be interacted with at the command line.

[dstftw]

You can specify the filename yourself with --output flag. As well as you can predict the default filename using simulation run with --get-filename flag just before the actual download.

[phihag]

Use -o - - this does precisely what you request.

Can you tell us where you searched for this option? We'll add a note there.

[kevinburke]

Ah, great. I found --get-filename and was using that:

https://bitbucket.org/kevinburke/small-dotfiles/src/fab0e092dbf11ceab623895b8c2964550e9c49ea/bin/sc?at=master

I ran youtube-dl --help and scanned the output for anything that looked
useful. I found --get-filename but must have just missed --output. :(

Kevin Burke
phone: 925.271.7005 | kev.inburke.com

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