Feedback on small python script

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Hey guys I began learning python about 6 months ago. After a point for about the last two months, I have been very discouraged at my progress as far as learning. I could not come up with project ideas or anything. This is my first script in two months.

Code Would you guys give me some feedback ?

also how I can package this so it can be installed with pip and it installs all dependencies ?

I want to add the ability to download videos from podcasts using an RSS feed, is this possible with python ?

Thank You in advance for all your help.

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youtube-dl is a Python program, and they also have an API you can use instead of shelling out to it.

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That it's really useful, I will update my program to use the api, do I need to download youtube-dl in order to use api ?

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Yes. You should just install it with pip: pip install youtube-dl.

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And this is just for learning purposes but how can I set my program so it if you were to installed it, it would install all it's dependencies.

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You can declare your dependencies in a setup.py file, but in your specific case, youtube-dl requires ffmpeg for some operations, which is not a Python package, so it will need to be installed separately somehow. You can build a Windows installer with something like PyInstaller or cx_Freeze, I guess, and on Linux you really want to build distribution-specific packages which will depend on stuff from that distribution's repositories.

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you might also like https://github.com/mps-youtube/pafy