Add multiple link generation in a single command

[TheGr33k]

It would be nice for youtube-dl to to be able to generate multiple direct links for different quality of the same video

for e.g youtube-dl -g -f 18 22 43 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrXdauEv9HY

would generate urls for the different itags.Each url could be separated by a special character in the output.

Advantages

No need to call youtube-dl multiple times for different qualities of the same video will save CPU and decrease the chance of getting Too Many request as the same page won't be requested from youtube multiple times.

[dstftw]

Just use --dump-json .

[TheGr33k]

It should works but a cleaner version would be better.There is a lot of info that is not needed

[dstftw]

All this info is extracted anyway, and it's unreasonable to make options to list any particular part of it. Moreover, suggested -f syntax is not consistent with format filters.

[TheGr33k]

I am fine with any other syntax you guys may come up with but here i am
interested only with the urls

What regex can be used to extract the specific infos

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Sergey M. notifications@github.com wrote:

All this info is extracted anyway, and it's unreasonable to make options
to list any particular part of it. Moreover, suggested -f syntax is not
consistent with format filters.

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[jaimeMF]

If you are using a shell script, then you just need to use jq:

$ youtube-dl test:youtube -f 137,136 -j | jq -r '"\(.format_id): \(.url)"'
137: https://r9---sn-h5q7ener.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?<...>
136: https://r9---sn-h5q7ener.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?<...>

[TheGr33k]

I am using php :)

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

If you are using a shell script, then you just need to use jq
https://stedolan.github.io/jq/:

$ youtube-dl test:youtube -f 137,136 -j | jq -r '"(.format_id): (.url)"'
137: https://r9---sn-h5q7ener.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?<...>
136: https://r9---sn-h5q7ener.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?<...>

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[jaimeMF]

I don't use php, but it seems to have json support: http://php.net/manual/en/ref.json.php.
Just note that with my approach each line of the output will contain a single json object, so you need to decode each line individually.