structuring a bit data feeds' metadata ...

[Albretch]

it would be helpful if youtube-dl offers a way to structure all the metadata you get via:

youtube-dl --simulate

say the provided input parameters are:

--ignore-errors --verbose --continue --get-filename --get-title --get-description

then in order to keep the file tidy the first line it outputs with the metadata you "--get" would be something like:

filename: 0
title: 1
description: 2

Also, it would be helpful if the metadata relating to some data feed would be marked up somehow, preferably in a way the user defines, say:

youtube-dl --simulate … --get-filename --get-title --get-description –set-grouping-seq="//*~"

then "//*~" would be printed by itself in a line each time all the metadata related to a data feed is listed.

Thank you,
lbrtchx

[jaimeMF]

For that task I think it's just better to use --dump-json, for each video it will print a newline with a json dictionary with all the metadata.