youtube-dl

commit: b0b9eaa19616da56c1d6a3ac152b31ade5ac1189
parent 8b134b106251cae4b8cf478fc2466c6976ae8e51
Author: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date:   Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:19:59 -0800

Merge pull request #1829 from jaimeMF/ydl-empty-params

Allow to initialize a YoutubeDL object without parameters
Diffstat:
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youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
4
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1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
     _num_downloads = None
     _screen_file = None
 
-    def __init__(self, params):
+    def __init__(self, params={}):
         """Create a FileDownloader object with the given options."""
         self._ies = []
         self._ies_instances = {}
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
         self.params = params
         self.fd = FileDownloader(self, self.params)
 
-        if '%(stitle)s' in self.params['outtmpl']:
+        if '%(stitle)s' in self.params.get('outtmpl', ''):
             self.report_warning(u'%(stitle)s is deprecated. Use the %(title)s and the --restrict-filenames flag(which also secures %(uploader)s et al) instead.')
 
         self._setup_opener()