Dumping JSON for playlists returns invalid syntax

[steebchen]

When calling youtube-dl with the --dump-json argument and a playlist, like this:

youtube-dl --dump-json https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fjjgjcvj24&list=PLvMgpveoV8oRvM_kBZULuPn5wlQkUjPth

then it returns invalid json, which looks like that:

{ "upload_date":"20130922", .. } { "upload_date":"20130922", .. } { "upload_date":"20130922", .. } 

I can't JSON.parse() it, because first, there is no comma between each element, and second, it has to be an array, so it should like that:

[{ "upload_date":"20130922", .. }, { "upload_date":"20130922", .. }, { "upload_date":"20130922", .. } ]

Or am I just missing something?
I'm using the latest version on npm.

As a workaround, you have to use --dump-single-json or -J to get a correct result.

[yan12125]

How about:

string_from_youtube_dl.split('\n').map(JSON.parse)

Given you're using Javascript.

[dstftw]

This is expected behavior. --dump-json outputs JSON for each video separately.