Using subprocess to capture a progress line
Tim Johnson
tim at akwebsoft.com
Tue Nov 10 17:47:56 EST 2015
Using python 2.7.6 on ubuntu 14.04
The application in question is run with bash and gnome-terminal :
I've written a command-line "wrapper" for youtube-dl, executing
youtube-dl as a subprocess.
------------------------------------------------------------------
youtube-dl reports download progress on one line. I.E. the line is
overwritten numerous times with no carriage return until the
downloading is finished.
------------------------------------------------------------------
The following code runs the youtube-dl command and reports each line
as output by youtube-dl
###########
p = subprocess.Popen(list(args), stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
while True:
line = p.stdout.readline()
if not line:
break
tmp = line.strip()
print tmp
###########
However this method not does show the download progress _until_ the
download is complete.
To clarify : follows is output from my app running youtube-dl.
I've annotated the line in question with '###'
[youtube] ZIgnHPqp0Dk: Downloading webpage
[youtube] ZIgnHPqp0Dk: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] ZIgnHPqp0Dk: Extracting video information
[youtube] ZIgnHPqp0Dk: Downloading js player en_US-vfljDEtYP
[youtube] ZIgnHPqp0Dk: Downloading DASH manifest
[download] Destination: Someday Soon - Judy Collins 1969.avi.m4a
### the line below is not seen until download is finished.
[download] 100% of 7.58MiB in 00:12.85KiB/s ETA 00:00
[ffmpeg] Correcting container in "Someday Soon - Judy Collins 1969.avi.m4a"
[ffmpeg] Destination: Someday Soon - Judy Collins 1969.avi.mp3
Deleting original file Someday Soon - Judy Collins 1969.avi.m4a (pass -k to keep)
Is there a way to code subprocess so the the progress is being
shown? In my case lines being output aren't being shown unless a
newline is sent, or so I understand it.
FYI : the need for this function in this case is trivial, but the
solution will be enlightening for me and have other uses, I'll bet.
thanks
--
Tim
http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com
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