Extract comments only when needed #95 (Closes #94)

[yt-dlp.git] / yt_dlp / extractor / common.py

diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
index 47b91a00a7a6e0c18c434ce8dcf0c8ca48785055..3326d436bb817821b9cec6e1f88718cbaef00e84 100644 (file)
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
@@ -294,6 +294,14 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                     players on other sites. Can be True (=always allowed),
                     False (=never allowed), None (=unknown), or a string
                     specifying the criteria for embedability (Eg: 'whitelist').
+    __post_extractor: A function to be called just before the metadata is
+                    written to either disk, logger or console. The function
+                    must return a dict which will be added to the info_dict.
+                    This is usefull for additional information that is
+                    time-consuming to extract. Note that the fields thus
+                    extracted will not be available to output template and
+                    match_filter. So, only "comments" and "comment_count" are
+                    currently allowed to be extracted via this method.
 
     The following fields should only be used when the video belongs to some logical
     chapter or section: