From b6884fbd2f0187e090563bddfdccb53f2b4d93b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Katie Pratt <katieannpratt@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 23:26:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] updating to support cli functionality

---
 youtube_dl/__init__.py | 14 +++++++++++---
 youtube_dl/options.py  |  4 ++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index 1251688b4..03066181a 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -276,10 +276,18 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
     # source and target containers. From this point the container won't change,
     # so metadata can be added here.
     if opts.addmetadata:
-        postprocessors.append({
-            'key': 'FFmpegMetadata',
-            'preferredinfo': json.load(opts.preferredinfo),
+        if hasattr(opts, 'preferredinfo'):
+            with open(opts.preferredinfo) as read_file:
+                preferredinfo = json.load(read_file)
+            postprocessors.append({
+                'key': 'FFmpegMetadata',
+                'preferredinfo': preferredinfo,
+                })
+        else:
+            postprocessors.append({
+                'key': 'FFmpegMetadata'
             })
+        
 
     if opts.convertsubtitles:
         postprocessors.append({
diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py
index 1ffabc62b..f3335c564 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/options.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/options.py
@@ -818,6 +818,10 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
         '--add-metadata',
         action='store_true', dest='addmetadata', default=False,
         help='Write metadata to the video file')
+    postproc.add_option(
+        '--preferred-info',
+        dest='preferredinfo', metavar='FILE',
+        help='Override metadata on the outputted file')
     postproc.add_option(
         '--metadata-from-title',
         metavar='FORMAT', dest='metafromtitle',