Custom output template

[samhagin]

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I'm using youtube-dl in https://github.com/samhagin/linuxacademy-dl/blob/master/download.py to download videos from Linux Academy. Using the output template %(autonumber)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s, simply names the videos as 0001-Linux-Academy.mp4, is it possible to create a custom output template so the file is actually named after text I extract as part of my script? Simply put, instead using the prefined output templates, I want to be able to define one myself. Alternatively, if someone can share code on how to create a custom postprocessor ( not using exec_cmd but via Python ) for renaming the file after download, that will work also

Thanks

[dstftw]

You must extract metadata in _real_extract to be used with output template mechanisms. If not using output template mechanisms then use fixed output template and do the renaming yourself. Also this is all pointless since linuxacademy is already supported natively.