From ae637e60920c975a22dae0f2c53c5db2d5bf4cf9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anand Babu Periasamy <ab@unlocksmith.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:51:06 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Added regex/string matching support titles to selectively
download videos.
---
youtube-dl | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/youtube-dl b/youtube-dl
index 3ac27a857..72870dc22 100755
--- a/youtube-dl
+++ b/youtube-dl
@@ -282,6 +282,8 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
noprogress: Do not print the progress bar.
playliststart: Playlist item to start at.
playlistend: Playlist item to end at.
+ matchtitle: Download only matching titles.
+ rejecttitle: Reject downloads for matching titles.
logtostderr: Log messages to stderr instead of stdout.
consoletitle: Display progress in console window's titlebar.
nopart: Do not use temporary .part files.
@@ -557,6 +559,17 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
if filename is None:
return
+
+ matchtitle=self.params.get('matchtitle',False)
+ rejecttitle=self.params.get('rejecttitle',False)
+ title=info_dict['title'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
+ if matchtitle and not re.search(matchtitle, title, re.IGNORECASE):
+ self.to_screen(u'[download] "%s" title did not match pattern "%s"' % (title, matchtitle))
+ return
+ if rejecttitle and re.search(rejecttitle, title, re.IGNORECASE):
+ self.to_screen(u'[download] "%s" title matched reject pattern "%s"' % (title, rejecttitle))
+ return
+
if self.params.get('nooverwrites', False) and os.path.exists(filename):
self.to_stderr(u'WARNING: file exists and will be skipped')
return
@@ -2743,6 +2756,8 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
dest='playliststart', metavar='NUMBER', help='playlist video to start at (default is 1)', default=1)
parser.add_option('--playlist-end',
dest='playlistend', metavar='NUMBER', help='playlist video to end at (default is last)', default=-1)
+ parser.add_option('--match-title', dest='matchtitle', metavar='REGEX',help='download only matching titles (regex or caseless sub-string)')
+ parser.add_option('--reject-title', dest='rejecttitle', metavar='REGEX',help='skip download for matching titles (regex or caseless sub-string)')
parser.add_option('--dump-user-agent',
action='store_true', dest='dump_user_agent',
help='display the current browser identification', default=False)
@@ -2945,6 +2960,8 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
'noprogress': opts.noprogress,
'playliststart': opts.playliststart,
'playlistend': opts.playlistend,
+ 'matchtitle':opts.matchtitle,
+ 'rejecttitle':opts.rejecttitle,
'logtostderr': opts.outtmpl == '-',
'consoletitle': opts.consoletitle,
'nopart': opts.nopart,