Have a way to cancel the download programatically #6488

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opened 2026-02-21 03:17:45 -05:00 by deekerman · 2 comments

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Originally created by @facundobatista on GitHub (Dec 26, 2015).

this way, it could be done the following:

ydl = youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(conf)
ydl.download([self.url])

at some point in the middle, from other thread:

ydl.cancel()

and it would stop downloading.

Originally created by @facundobatista on GitHub (Dec 26, 2015). this way, it could be done the following: ``` ydl = youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(conf) ydl.download([self.url]) ``` at some point in the middle, from other thread: ``` ydl.cancel() ``` and it would stop downloading.

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@santicalvo commented on GitHub (Jan 9, 2017):

I'd love to see this feature! Does anyone plan to implement it?

@santicalvo commented on GitHub (Jan 9, 2017): I'd love to see this feature! Does anyone plan to implement it?

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@andre487 commented on GitHub (Jun 5, 2021):

I'd like to see this feature too. When using youtube-dl on server side it should be way to cancel download by timeout or other condition

@andre487 commented on GitHub (Jun 5, 2021): I'd like to see this feature too. When using youtube-dl on server side it should be way to cancel download by timeout or other condition

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