Abort youtube-dl.exe?

[PeterPanino]

I use youtube-dl.exe 2015.06.15 in Windows. Is there a way to ABORT the running youtube-dl.exe? (maybe after having cleaned up the already downloaded part of the file? I use --no-part).

Or is it safe to just KILL it?

[jaimeMF]

You can kill it, but the files aren't deleted and since you use --no-part the download cannot be resumed.

[PeterPanino]

Wouldn't it be useful to implement something which allows to communicate with youtube-dl.exe? So I could send a message to youtube-dl.exe and tell him: Please abort the current download and cleanup. Or, when not using --no-part: Please pause the download. Or: Please resume the download.

I think this would be very useful.

[jaimeMF]

I don't think we are going to implement it directly in youtube-dl because it could complicate too much the tool, but we may consider a pull request or someone could use the python youtube_dl module to implement it in a separate program.