youtube-dl not reporting the final filename

[kereilly]

I'm a novice at writing python but i did write a program that was working until about a week or so ago. It seems after i updated youtube-dl it no longer reports the final filename. here is my hook:

def my_hook(d):
if d['status'] == 'finished':
print "\nYour video has been downloaded!"
filelocation = d['filename']
print filelocation

When i run the script i'll get:
Your video has been downloaded!
/Volumes/RR261-GOING-POSTAL_1/RR261_Archival_Footage/RR261_A999_Erase_Please.f243.webm

Your video has been downloaded!
/Volumes/RR261-GOING-POSTAL_1/RR261_Archival_Footage/RR261_A999_Erase_Please.f141.m4a

So according to the documentation i've got two choices to get filenames

• filename: The final filename (always present)
• tmpfilename: The filename we're currently writing to

shouldn't filename report back the remuxed file that results, which in this case is RR261_A999_Erase_Please.mkv or is this not the way to get the file name that was downloaded. Thanks

[SleepProgger]

You can get the resulting filename via the prepare_filename function (for example).

# Download the file and get the info
info = ydl.extract_info(download=False)
print "filename", ydl.prepare_filename(info)

[kereilly]

Thanks a bunch. This was exactly what i needed.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 11:45 PM, SleepProgger notifications@github.com
wrote:

You can get the resulting filename via the prepare_filename function
(for example).

Download the file and get the info

info = ydl.extract_info(download=False)
print "filename", ydl.prepare_filename(info)

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