video_dl: skip download if video exceeds 500MB#146
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Previously, oversized videos were only detected after a full download completed. This adds a pre-flight size check using yt-dlp metadata to abort before wasting bandwidth and disk I/O.
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MAX_DOWNLOAD_SIZE = 500 * 1024 * 1024on the cog class_download_video(): callsextract_info(download=False)and checksfilesize/filesize_approxagainst the limit before starting the actual downloadis not Noneguard rather than truthiness check, so a reported size of0doesn't bypass the limitThe error propagates through the existing flow: silent in
on_message, surfaced as a❌reply in the/downloadcommand.