noplaylist doesn't work as Python Method

[capital-G]

Hi there,
I currently use YTDL in a python project of mine and it seems I found a bug in it:
If i create a new YTDL method like
ydl = youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(params={'noplaylist':True,})
It still downloads Playlists, because it goes this way
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py#L657-L663
and not this way:
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py#L1161

[jaimeMF]

It seems to work fine:

import youtube_dl

ydl = youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(params={
    'noplaylist':True,
    'outtmpl': 'example/%(id)s',
})

ydl.download(['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV9L5Ht9LgY&index=1&list=PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re'])

Will just download bV9L5Ht9LgY:

$ python3 sample.py
[youtube:playlist] Downloading just video bV9L5Ht9LgY because of --no-playlist
[youtube] Confirming age
[youtube] bV9L5Ht9LgY: Downloading webpage
[youtube] bV9L5Ht9LgY: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] bV9L5Ht9LgY: Extracting video information
[youtube] bV9L5Ht9LgY: Downloading DASH manifest
[download] Destination: example/bV9L5Ht9LgY
[download]   0.7% of 37.26MiB at 481.74KiB/s ETA 01:18

Could you give more info? Like youtube_dl version, url that shows the problem, the code that you use...

[capital-G]

You're right, with your URL it worked, but it doesn't work with this one: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEB7907E8F277754A

[jaimeMF]

That's normal, the url doesn't contain any video id, so there's no doubt that it's a playlist url (see the option description). Note that youtube-dl 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEB7907E8F277754A' --no-playlist will download all the videos.

[phihag]

Maybe we should rename no_playlist? I have updated the documentation to clarify.

@capital-G If you want youtube-dl to bail if it detects a playlist, please open a new issue. Don't forget to provide us with lots of context, without which any request is likely to be lingering or even be closed outright.