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| author | Sergey M․ <dstftw@gmail.com> | 2016-07-03 11:35:13 +0700 |
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| committer | Sergey M․ <dstftw@gmail.com> | 2016-07-03 11:35:13 +0700 |
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[README.md] Update some codebase links
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 1f014b48f..6218060d6 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -964,7 +964,7 @@ Extractors are very fragile by nature since they depend on the layout of the sou ### Mandatory and optional metafields -For extraction to work youtube-dl relies on metadata your extractor extracts and provides to youtube-dl expressed by [information dictionary](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py#L148-L252) or simply *info dict*. Only the following meta fields in *info dict* are considered mandatory for successful extraction process by youtube-dl: +For extraction to work youtube-dl relies on metadata your extractor extracts and provides to youtube-dl expressed by [information dictionary](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py#L75-L257) or simply *info dict*. Only the following meta fields in *info dict* are considered mandatory for successful extraction process by youtube-dl: - `id` (media identifier) - `title` (media title) @@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ For extraction to work youtube-dl relies on metadata your extractor extracts and In fact only the last option is technically mandatory (i.e. if you can't figure out the download location of the media the extraction does not make any sense). But by convention youtube-dl also treats `id` and `title` to be mandatory. Thus aforementioned metafields are the critical data the extraction does not make any sense without and if any of them fail to be extracted then extractor is considered completely broken. -[Any field](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py#L148-L252) apart from the aforementioned ones are considered **optional**. That means that extraction should be **tolerate** to situations when sources for these fields can potentially be unavailable (even if they always available at the moment) and **future-proof** in order not to break the extraction of general purpose mandatory fields. +[Any field](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py#L149-L257) apart from the aforementioned ones are considered **optional**. That means that extraction should be **tolerate** to situations when sources for these fields can potentially be unavailable (even if they always available at the moment) and **future-proof** in order not to break the extraction of general purpose mandatory fields. #### Example |