python-based downloader (youtube-dl) missing critical feature ...

[lbrt]

 python-based youtube-dl
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 http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/
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 is sorely missing a flag in order to indicate the maximum file length of the data feed it would download (well, unless, for some reason, it is considered a "feature").
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 I wonder what developers were thinking about when they came up this nice piece of code. If you actually look in the code
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 data = urllib2.urlopen(basic_request)
 content_length = data.info()['Content-Length']
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 you will see they get the content length of the actual data feed and they also print the progress status based on the content length
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 Implementing an if statement a la:
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 max_indicated_content_length = self.params.get('max_content_length', None);
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 if( content_length > max_indicated_content_length ){ [do not download, just report "data feed too large"] }
 else{ [do] }
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 shouldn't be hard at all
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 youtube-dl is under the Creative Commons License copyrighted by 2006-2011 Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez and maintained by him and a group of python developers
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 They are the ones keeping a mental map of that project. It would be a plus if they implement this feature, but anyother python developer can implemented (please, let me know if/when you do)
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 lbrtchx