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| author | Sergey M <dstftw@gmail.com> | 2019-01-26 15:29:19 +0700 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-01-26 15:29:19 +0700 |
| commit | 252abb1e8b881aa9d3942c436711ac33235b37cd (patch) | |
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| parent | ae18d58297c16a300a89693360efd19be4a97e92 (diff) | |
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[README.md] Mention more convenience extraction functions
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 4ba982907..c1572f771 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1213,7 +1213,7 @@ Incorrect: 'PLMYEtVRpaqY00V9W81Cwmzp6N6vZqfUKD4' ``` -### Use safe conversion functions +### Use convenience conversion and parsing functions Wrap all extracted numeric data into safe functions from [`youtube_dl/utils.py`](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/utils.py): `int_or_none`, `float_or_none`. Use them for string to number conversions as well. @@ -1221,6 +1221,8 @@ Use `url_or_none` for safe URL processing. Use `try_get` for safe metadata extraction from parsed JSON. +Use `unified_strdate` for uniform `upload_date` or any `YYYYMMDD` meta field extraction, `unified_timestamp` for uniform `timestamp` extraction, `parse_filesize` for `filesize` extraction, `parse_count` for count meta fields extraction, `parse_resolution`, `parse_duration` for `duration` extraction, `parse_age_limit` for `age_limit` extraction. + Explore [`youtube_dl/utils.py`](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/utils.py) for more useful convenience functions. #### More examples |