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How to get information about a playlist without uploading it to yt-dlp?
I can get the information I need, but either downloads the entire playlist, which is very long.
I tried to play with the download parameter, but it did not give any result at all, for example:
and
Does not change the download in any way. Perhaps I'm missing something else?
Or does it only load information like this?
info = ydl.extract_info(url, download=False)
info = ydl.extract_info(url, download=True)
[youtube:tab] Downloading just video X-VdHRROubI because of --no-playlist
[youtube] X-VdHRROubI: Downloading webpage
[youtube] X-VdHRROubI: Downloading android player API JSON
[youtube] X-VdHRROubI: Downloading MPD manifest
[youtube] X-VdHRROubI: Downloading MPD manifest
[youtube:tab] Downloading playlist PLrKqYl7FgK1SYT46S4UxrmnBcd9cLhixu; add --no-playlist to just download video X-VdHRROubI
[youtube:tab] PLrKqYl7FgK1SYT46S4UxrmnBcd9cLhixu: Downloading webpage
[youtube:tab] PLrKqYl7FgK1SYT46S4UxrmnBcd9cLhixu: Downloading webpage
[youtube:tab] PLrKqYl7FgK1SYT46S4UxrmnBcd9cLhixu: Downloading API JSON with unavailable videos
[download] Downloading playlist: Born To Die (Album)
[youtube:tab] playlist Born To Die (Album): Downloading 15 videos
[download] Downloading video 1 of 15
[youtube] X-VdHRROubI: Downloading webpage
[youtube] X-VdHRROubI: Downloading android player API JSON
[youtube] X-VdHRROubI: Downloading MPD manifest
[youtube] X-VdHRROubI: Downloading MPD manifest
[download] Downloading video 2 of 15
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