WebUI: Progress display for running downloads

[fpiesche]

There's currently no way to tell whether a download is still actually running or has stalled in the background. A simple way of displaying running downloads would be to trawl the downloads directory for .ytdl files and simply displaying the current_fragment stat from the JSON within, updating it every second or two. This won't help with seeing total progress, but it'll at least give an indicator whether a download is still moving along.

More advanced implementation ideas:

• keep track of currently running download processes and allow users to view the stdout logs for each
• run a no-download process on the URL to find the number of fragments, then use that and the current_fragment stat to display a rough progress percentage (with video/audio being 50% each? separate progress bars for either?)

[hadecake]

seconded this. Recently found your project and it's by far the simplest and cleanest ytdl implementation. Love it. It's just missing some essential functions that hurt it a lot. mainly that there is NO way to tell what it's doing. don't even need something fancy like a progress bar; all it needs is a log view/tab. for example if I add a new channel to the list and save, I can't tell if it runs immediately or will just check it on the next interval.

also it might be good to add --embed-thumbnail and --embed-chapters to the default list.