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Update internal documentation to reflect the new behaviour
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@ -65,9 +65,10 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
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For this, file downloader objects have a method that allows
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InfoExtractors to be registered in a given order. When it is passed
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a URL, the file downloader handles it to the first InfoExtractor it
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finds that reports being able to handle it. The InfoExtractor returns
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all the information to the FileDownloader and the latter downloads the
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file or does whatever it's instructed to do.
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finds that reports being able to handle it. The InfoExtractor extracts
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all the information about the video or videos the URL refers to, and
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asks the FileDownloader to process the video information, possibly
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downloading the video.
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File downloaders accept a lot of parameters. In order not to saturate
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the object constructor with arguments, it receives a dictionary of
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@ -360,9 +361,10 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
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Information extractors are the classes that, given a URL, extract
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information from the video (or videos) the URL refers to. This
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information includes the real video URL, the video title and simplified
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title, author and others. It is returned in a list of dictionaries when
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calling its extract() method. It is a list because a URL can refer to
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more than one video (think of playlists). The dictionaries must include
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title, author and others. The information is stored in a dictionary
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which is then passed to the FileDownloader. The FileDownloader
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processes this information possibly downloading the video to the file
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system, among other possible outcomes. The dictionaries must include
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the following fields:
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id: Video identifier.
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