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| author | pukkandan <pukkandan.ytdlp@gmail.com> | 2022-06-17 10:18:21 +0530 |
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| committer | pukkandan <pukkandan.ytdlp@gmail.com> | 2022-06-17 10:36:52 +0530 |
| commit | 7e88d7d78f452ea69f06bbdf23f82e9ad7c3de5e (patch) | |
| tree | 368974f9939f111ddb274adaad03ac88d782fa92 /yt_dlp/options.py | |
| parent | f0c9fb96827ff798a48626e7e5d32a9c5de7b97e (diff) | |
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Add slicing notation to `--playlist-items`
* Adds support for negative indices and step
* Add `-I` as alias for `--playlist-index`
* Deprecates `--playlist-start`, `--playlist-end`, `--playlist-reverse`, `--no-playlist-reverse`
Closes #2951, Closes #2853
Diffstat (limited to 'yt_dlp/options.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | yt_dlp/options.py | 16 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/yt_dlp/options.py b/yt_dlp/options.py index 91e7c1f82..bc646ab4a 100644 --- a/yt_dlp/options.py +++ b/yt_dlp/options.py @@ -500,15 +500,19 @@ def create_parser(): selection.add_option( '--playlist-start', dest='playliststart', metavar='NUMBER', default=1, type=int, - help='Playlist video to start at (default is %default)') + help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP) selection.add_option( '--playlist-end', dest='playlistend', metavar='NUMBER', default=None, type=int, - help='Playlist video to end at (default is last)') + help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP) selection.add_option( - '--playlist-items', + '-I', '--playlist-items', dest='playlist_items', metavar='ITEM_SPEC', default=None, - help='Playlist video items to download. Specify indices of the videos in the playlist separated by commas like: "--playlist-items 1,2,5,8" if you want to download videos indexed 1, 2, 5, 8 in the playlist. You can specify range: "--playlist-items 1-3,7,10-13", it will download the videos at index 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13') + help=( + 'Comma seperated playlist_index of the videos to download. ' + 'You can specify a range using "[START]:[STOP][:STEP]". For backward compatibility, START-STOP is also supported. ' + 'Use negative indices to count from the right and negative STEP to download in reverse order. ' + 'Eg: "-I 1:3,7,-5::2" used on a playlist of size 15 will download the videos at index 1,2,3,7,11,13,15')) selection.add_option( '--match-title', dest='matchtitle', metavar='REGEX', @@ -885,11 +889,11 @@ def create_parser(): downloader.add_option( '--playlist-reverse', action='store_true', - help='Download playlist videos in reverse order') + help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP) downloader.add_option( '--no-playlist-reverse', action='store_false', dest='playlist_reverse', - help='Download playlist videos in default order (default)') + help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP) downloader.add_option( '--playlist-random', action='store_true', |