From b797c1cc750b1f617678281731303611e21c70d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jacob Chapman <7908073+chapmanjacobd@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 5 May 2021 03:31:24 +0700 Subject: [PATCH] [YoutubeDL] Improve extract_info doc (#28946) Co-authored-by: Sergey M. --- youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py | 19 ++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py index 8f65c6499..fe30758ef 100755 --- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py +++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py @@ -773,11 +773,20 @@ class YoutubeDL(object): def extract_info(self, url, download=True, ie_key=None, extra_info={}, process=True, force_generic_extractor=False): - ''' - Returns a list with a dictionary for each video we find. - If 'download', also downloads the videos. - extra_info is a dict containing the extra values to add to each result - ''' + """ + Return a list with a dictionary for each video extracted. + + Arguments: + url -- URL to extract + + Keyword arguments: + download -- whether to download videos during extraction + ie_key -- extractor key hint + extra_info -- dictionary containing the extra values to add to each result + process -- whether to resolve all unresolved references (URLs, playlist items), + must be True for download to work. + force_generic_extractor -- force using the generic extractor + """ if not ie_key and force_generic_extractor: ie_key = 'Generic'