From c3e6ffba536980e5e1af00e0ecb2275621b4db17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pukkandan <pukkandan@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 17:38:12 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Stop immediately when reaching '--max-downloads'
 (https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/26638)

Authored by: glenn-slayden
---
 youtube_dlc/YoutubeDL.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/youtube_dlc/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dlc/YoutubeDL.py
index 3bae07764a..2ecb137fc9 100644
--- a/youtube_dlc/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dlc/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -2220,6 +2220,9 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
 
         if must_record_download_archive or self.params.get('force_write_download_archive', False):
             self.record_download_archive(info_dict)
+        max_downloads = self.params.get('max_downloads')
+        if max_downloads is not None and self._num_downloads >= int(max_downloads):
+            raise MaxDownloadsReached()
 
     def download(self, url_list):
         """Download a given list of URLs."""