New option --skip-download (Closes #162)

diff --git a/youtube-dl b/youtube-dl
index dbcf1c9..4f6706e 100755 (executable)
--- a/youtube-dl
+++ b/youtube-dl
@@ -697,20 +697,21 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
        def process_info(self, info_dict):
                """Process a single dictionary returned by an InfoExtractor."""
                filename = self.prepare_filename(info_dict)
+               
+               # Forced printings
+               if self.params.get('forcetitle', False):
+                       print info_dict['title'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
+               if self.params.get('forceurl', False):
+                       print info_dict['url'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
+               if self.params.get('forcethumbnail', False) and 'thumbnail' in info_dict:
+                       print info_dict['thumbnail'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
+               if self.params.get('forcedescription', False) and 'description' in info_dict:
+                       print info_dict['description'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
+               if self.params.get('forcefilename', False) and filename is not None:
+                       print filename.encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
+
                # Do nothing else if in simulate mode
                if self.params.get('simulate', False):
-                       # Forced printings
-                       if self.params.get('forcetitle', False):
-                               print info_dict['title'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
-                       if self.params.get('forceurl', False):
-                               print info_dict['url'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
-                       if self.params.get('forcethumbnail', False) and 'thumbnail' in info_dict:
-                               print info_dict['thumbnail'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
-                       if self.params.get('forcedescription', False) and 'description' in info_dict:
-                               print info_dict['description'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
-                       if self.params.get('forcefilename', False) and filename is not None:
-                               print filename.encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
-
                        return
 
                if filename is None:
@@ -769,23 +770,24 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
                                self.trouble(u'ERROR: Cannot write metadata to JSON file ' + infofn)
                                return
 
-               try:
-                       success = self._do_download(filename, info_dict['url'].encode('utf-8'), info_dict.get('player_url', None))
-               except (OSError, IOError), err:
-                       raise UnavailableVideoError
-               except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
-                       self.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video data: %s' % str(err))
-                       return
-               except (ContentTooShortError, ), err:
-                       self.trouble(u'ERROR: content too short (expected %s bytes and served %s)' % (err.expected, err.downloaded))
-                       return
-
-               if success:
+               if not self.params.get('skip_download', False):
                        try:
-                               self.post_process(filename, info_dict)
-                       except (PostProcessingError), err:
-                               self.trouble(u'ERROR: postprocessing: %s' % str(err))
+                               success = self._do_download(filename, info_dict['url'].encode('utf-8'), info_dict.get('player_url', None))
+                       except (OSError, IOError), err:
+                               raise UnavailableVideoError
+                       except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+                               self.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video data: %s' % str(err))
+                               return
+                       except (ContentTooShortError, ), err:
+                               self.trouble(u'ERROR: content too short (expected %s bytes and served %s)' % (err.expected, err.downloaded))
                                return
+       
+                       if success:
+                               try:
+                                       self.post_process(filename, info_dict)
+                               except (PostProcessingError), err:
+                                       self.trouble(u'ERROR: postprocessing: %s' % str(err))
+                                       return
 
        def download(self, url_list):
                """Download a given list of URLs."""
@@ -3495,7 +3497,9 @@ def parseOpts():
        verbosity.add_option('-q', '--quiet',
                        action='store_true', dest='quiet', help='activates quiet mode', default=False)
        verbosity.add_option('-s', '--simulate',
-                       action='store_true', dest='simulate', help='do not download video', default=False)
+                       action='store_true', dest='simulate', help='do not download the video and do not write anything to disk', default=False)
+       verbosity.add_option('--skip-download',
+                       action='store_true', dest='skip_download', help='do not download the video', default=False)
        verbosity.add_option('-g', '--get-url',
                        action='store_true', dest='geturl', help='simulate, quiet but print URL', default=False)
        verbosity.add_option('-e', '--get-title',
@@ -3693,7 +3697,8 @@ def main():
                'forcethumbnail': opts.getthumbnail,
                'forcedescription': opts.getdescription,
                'forcefilename': opts.getfilename,
-               'simulate': (opts.simulate or opts.geturl or opts.gettitle or opts.getthumbnail or opts.getdescription or opts.getfilename),
+               'simulate': opts.simulate,
+               'skip_download': (opts.skip_download or opts.simulate or opts.geturl or opts.gettitle or opts.getthumbnail or opts.getdescription or opts.getfilename),
                'format': opts.format,
                'format_limit': opts.format_limit,
                'outtmpl': ((opts.outtmpl is not None and opts.outtmpl.decode(preferredencoding()))