From deefc05b88d68b82a43d2ab154986362860e2202 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philipp Hagemeister Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:40:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Document formats (for #980) --- youtube_dl/extractor/common.py | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py index 77726ee24..b577c9e6d 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py @@ -52,8 +52,19 @@ class InfoExtractor(object): view_count: How many users have watched the video on the platform. urlhandle: [internal] The urlHandle to be used to download the file, like returned by urllib.request.urlopen + formats: A list of dictionaries for each format available, it must + be ordered from worst to best quality. Potential fields: + * url Mandatory. The URL of the video file + * ext Will be calculated from url if missing + * format A human-readable description of the format + ("mp4 container with h264/opus"). + Calculated from width and height if missing. + * format_id A short description of the format + ("mp4_h264_opus" or "19") + * width Width of the video, if known + * height Height of the video, if known - The fields should all be Unicode strings. + Unless mentioned otherwise, the fields should be Unicode strings. Subclasses of this one should re-define the _real_initialize() and _real_extract() methods and define a _VALID_URL regexp.