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Philipp Hagemeister 2013-10-04 10:40:42 +02:00
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@ -52,8 +52,19 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
view_count: How many users have watched the video on the platform.
urlhandle: [internal] The urlHandle to be used to download the file,
like returned by urllib.request.urlopen
formats: A list of dictionaries for each format available, it must
be ordered from worst to best quality. Potential fields:
* url Mandatory. The URL of the video file
* ext Will be calculated from url if missing
* format A human-readable description of the format
("mp4 container with h264/opus").
Calculated from width and height if missing.
* format_id A short description of the format
("mp4_h264_opus" or "19")
* width Width of the video, if known
* height Height of the video, if known
The fields should all be Unicode strings.
Unless mentioned otherwise, the fields should be Unicode strings.
Subclasses of this one should re-define the _real_initialize() and
_real_extract() methods and define a _VALID_URL regexp.