{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/4053","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/4053/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/4053/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/4053/events","html_url":"https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/4053","id":47103442,"number":4053,"title":"-j and --write-description now incompatible with each other?","user":{"login":"joeschmoe40","id":5957376,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5957376?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/joeschmoe40","html_url":"https://github.com/joeschmoe40","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joeschmoe40/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joeschmoe40/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joeschmoe40/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joeschmoe40/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joeschmoe40/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joeschmoe40/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joeschmoe40/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joeschmoe40/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joeschmoe40/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":5,"created_at":"2014-10-29T02:02:11Z","updated_at":"2015-01-30T03:14:04Z","closed_at":"2015-01-26T11:20:48Z","body":"I have a script that runs youtube-dl like this:\r\n\r\nyoutube-dl.py  -j --write-description -o tmptmp \"$url\" | something ...\r\n\r\nThe objective of the above line is to write the description to the file \"tmptmp.description\" as well as to write the \"json\" data to the standard output (it is piped into some further program(s) that analyze the json data).\r\n\r\nThis was working correctly as recently as October 23rd (2014), but got broken some time after that (in particular, it is broken in the 10/27/2014 version).  Now, I get no \"tmptmp.description\" file.  Note that no error message is generated; it just silently ignores it.  If I remove \"-j\" form the command line, then it works as before.  So, it seems like it is a \"one or the other, but not both\" situation.\r\n\r\nI would like to see the previous behavior restored.  I have work-around-ed it in my script, but I'd prefer it work the way it used to.\r\n\r\nNote: This is all on Mac OSX, using the Unix command line.\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/comments/72147610","html_url":"https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/4053#issuecomment-72147610","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/4053","id":72147610,"user":{"login":"phihag","id":779568,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/779568?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/phihag","html_url":"https://github.com/phihag","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/phihag/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/phihag/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/phihag/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/phihag/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/phihag/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/phihag/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/phihag/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/phihag/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/phihag/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-01-30T03:14:04Z","updated_at":"2015-01-30T03:14:04Z","body":"I believe this issue to be fixed in youtube-dl version 2015.01.30.1 and newer. See [our FAQ](https://yt-dl.org/update) if you need help updating."}}