Just tell wether youtube-dl is able to download or not

[Kaligule]

Not sure if this somehow in the verbosity options already. I didn't find it.

It would be nice to have an option for youtube-dl that just return a boolean value: "I would be able to download a video from this site / I wouldn't".

This would make one able to categorize linklists into video/nonVideo.

[phihag]

You can simply check for the error being "unsupported URL". Alternatively, call youtube-dl with -j or similiar and check whether anything is returned.

There is no way to know whether the download will return one or more videos without actually downloading the URL, since youtube-dl can detect 302 redirects, embedded videos, RSS feeds and the like.

[Kaligule]

This helps, thanks.