option to limit number of pages, youtube.

[wintermutecx]

I download videos from PBS newshour (youtube.com/user/PBSNewsHour/videos )with the option to only grab ones that are up to 5 days old, but the script has to run through over 100 pages and 10,000 videos to match the date. Is it possible to add a new option to also limits the number of initial pages that are downloaded? Thanks :)

[dstftw]

You can limit according to playlist items's indexes.

--playlist-start NUMBER          Playlist video to start at (default is 1)
--playlist-end NUMBER            Playlist video to end at (default is last)
--playlist-items ITEM_SPEC       Playlist video items to download. Specify
                                 indices of the videos in the playlist
                                 separated by commas like: "--playlist-items
                                 1,2,5,8" if you want to download videos
                                 indexed 1, 2, 5, 8 in the playlist. You can
                                 specify range: "--playlist-items
                                 1-3,7,10-13", it will download the videos
                                 at index 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13.

[wintermutecx]

That certainty speeds things up, thanks kindly :) I hadn't realized it was a playlist :D