Using subprocess to capture a progress line

[Tim Johnson]

* Tim Johnson <tim at akwebsoft.com> [151110 14:55]:
> * Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> [151110 14:35]:
> > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Tim Johnson <tim at akwebsoft.com> wrote:
> > > I've written a command-line "wrapper" for youtube-dl, executing
> > is implemented in Python, you might find it easier to "pip install
> > youtube_dl" and work with the methods directly:
<<...> > 
> > >>> import youtube_dl
> > >>> youtube_dl.YoutubeDL().download(["m39ydsOPSww"])
> 
>   Frankly, I'd prefer - in the long run - to use youtube_dl (the
>   module).
> 
>   But, when I do as you have suggested (and have tried previously) I
>   get the following:
> 
>   youtube_dl.utils.DownloadError: ERROR: no suitable InfoExtractor
> 
    It looks as if the developers are constantly upgrading. I just
	upgraded youtube_dl

	sudo pip install --upgrade youtube_dl

	And ran the code which is provided under the topic 
	"EMBEDDING YOUTUBE-DL"
	at 
	https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md

	At I got a successful download, AFAICS
-- 
Tim 
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