commit: 99a0f9824a2b6890998d5d668213974907f9c2de
parent 3013bbb27d79ba22dc432b1081acccef96b54931
Author: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:11:52 +0100
[README] Highlight code examples
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -529,17 +529,19 @@ youtube-dl makes the best effort to be a good command-line program, and thus sho
From a Python program, you can embed youtube-dl in a more powerful fashion, like this:
+ ```python
import youtube_dl
ydl_opts = {}
with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
ydl.download(['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc'])
+ ```
Most likely, you'll want to use various options. For a list of what can be done, have a look at [youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py#L69). For a start, if you want to intercept youtube-dl's output, set a `logger` object.
Here's a more complete example of a program that outputs only errors (and a short message after the download is finished), and downloads/converts the video to an mp3 file:
-
+ ```python
import youtube_dl
@@ -571,6 +573,7 @@ Here's a more complete example of a program that outputs only errors (and a shor
}
with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
ydl.download(['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc'])
+ ```
# BUGS