From b54d4a5ce8443488dbb6735b0ea3e1b9cd6d72f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Sergey=20M=E2=80=A4?= Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 02:53:50 +0700 Subject: [PATCH] Document http_chunk_size --- youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py | 3 ++- youtube_dl/downloader/common.py | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py index 97bd9c526d..925d095dec 100755 --- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py +++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py @@ -298,7 +298,8 @@ class YoutubeDL(object): the downloader (see youtube_dl/downloader/common.py): nopart, updatetime, buffersize, ratelimit, min_filesize, max_filesize, test, noresizebuffer, retries, continuedl, noprogress, consoletitle, - xattr_set_filesize, external_downloader_args, hls_use_mpegts. + xattr_set_filesize, external_downloader_args, hls_use_mpegts, + http_chunk_size. The following options are used by the post processors: prefer_ffmpeg: If True, use ffmpeg instead of avconv if both are available, diff --git a/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py b/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py index 75b8166c51..a7f62ae53b 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py +++ b/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py @@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ class FileDownloader(object): external_downloader_args: A list of additional command-line arguments for the external downloader. hls_use_mpegts: Use the mpegts container for HLS videos. + http_chunk_size: Size of a chunk for chunk-based HTTP downloading.May be + useful for bypassing bandwidth throttling imposed by + a webserver (experimental) Subclasses of this one must re-define the real_download method. """