Daemon Mode

[ghost]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3632919/simple-queue-for-youtube-dl-in-the-linux-shell/3633283#3633283

mentions a patch which would allow youtube-dl to run as a daemon and query a batchfile for new items. Possibly due to code restructuring, the patch will not work. I would be interested in both any help getting it working as well as seeing this eventually become a standard feature. Thanks to either.

[phihag]

Yeah, that certainly would be interesting. However, to correctly implementing the daemon mode is not as easy as this patch makes it to be. In particular, we must ensure that FileDownloader.download works correctly when called multiple times, so this will most likely require an API restructuring (see #710 among others).

[ghost]

Thanks for your reply.