How to get file download progress (file no., percentage, ETA and rate)

[ghost]

Is there a way to get file download progress in the terminal. The --console-title shows the progress and displays progress details in title.

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-quality 0 --console-title --audio-format mp3 <url>

But i want those details as an output in terminal and not in the title

eg: a="hello"; echo $a

is this possible

[yan12125]

Does --newline help?

[ghost]

@yan12125 no it doesnt help? how to fetch the percentage and ETA alone?

[jaimeMF]

The progress is properly outputted to the terminal, could you post the output you get and the way you want to process it?

[ghost]

@jaimeMF
youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-quality 0 --newline --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1C815DB73EC2678E

This is the out put

[youtube:playlist] PL1C815DB73EC2678E: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: Less than 1 minute
[youtube:playlist] playlist Less than 1 minute: Collected 4 video ids (downloading 4 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 4
[youtube] KNLwsqzFfNg: Downloading webpage
[youtube] KNLwsqzFfNg: Extracting video information
[youtube] KNLwsqzFfNg: Downloading DASH manifest
download] Destination: _1 min. - Amendes pour les particules du LHC-KNLwsqzFfNg.m4a

[download]   0.4% of 231.51KiB at  6.10KiB/s ETA 00:30
[download]   1.1% of 231.51KiB at 27.07KiB/s ETA 00:10
[download]   4.0% of 231.51KiB at 19.24KiB/s ETA 00:04
[download]   6.5% of 231.51KiB at 75.06KiB/s ETA 00:03
[download]  13.4% of 231.51KiB at 98.22KiB/s ETA 00:03
[download]  28.7% of 231.51KiB at 81.40KiB/s ETA 00:02
[download]  61.7% of 231.51KiB at 91.56KiB/s ETA 00:01
[download]  86.2% of 231.51KiB at 82.96KiB/s ETA 00:00
[download] 100.0% of 231.51KiB at 73.21KiB/s ETA 00:00
[download] 100% of 231.51KiB in 00:02
[ffmpeg] Correcting container in "_1 min. - Amendes pour les particules du LHC-KNLwsqzFfNg.m4a"
WARNING: Your copy of avconv is outdated, update avconv to version 10-0 or newer if you encounter any errors.
[avconv] Destination: _1 min. - Amendes pour les particules du LHC-KNLwsqzFfNg.mp3
WARNING: Your copy of avconv is outdated, update avconv to version 10-0 or newer if you encounter any errors.
Deleting original file _1 min. - Amendes pour les particules du LHC-KNLwsqzFfNg.m4a (pass -k to keep)
[download] Downloading video 2 of 4
[youtube] wTvXkMpJflk: Downloading webpage
[youtube] wTvXkMpJflk: Extracting video information
[youtube] wTvXkMpJflk: Downloading DASH manifest
etc
etc

and i wand only
Downloading video 1 of 4 [download] Downloading video 2 of 4

as $files1

FIRST FILE

file =1 
per      time             rate
0.40%   00:30:00    6.10KiB/s
1.10%   00:10:00    27.07KiB/s
4.00%   00:04:00    19.24KiB/s
6.50%   00:03:00    75.06KiB/s
13.40%  00:03:00    98.22KiB/s
28.70%  00:02:00    81.40KiB/s
61.70%  00:01:00    91.56KiB/s
86.20%  00:00:00    82.96KiB/s
100.00% 00:00:00    231.51KiB

SECOND, THIRD...FILES

As separate variable $file, $per, $time, $rate
i know we can use awk but for this complicated output how should i do

[dstftw]

Generally, you should use an API. I see little sense overcomplexing progress output with template similar to -o.

[jaimeMF]

Currently you have the option to parse the youtube-dl output or use the python api as @dstftw has mentioned. I'm closing this issue as a duplicate of #152, if we implement it we would offer the download progress as a json output.

[ghost]

I am a little bit confuesed, API and PHP is used for web application right. I have installed youtube-dl in my ubuntu system