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Old 05-27-2014, 09:59 AM   #2738
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
Well, you could run the story check and metadata fetch in a job, return the result and prompt the user as needed and then start the existing download job. Of course, it wouldn't be as simple as that, but it should work.
Launching a BG job takes several seconds all by itself in my experience. So it would in fact take more time depending on how many URLs and the sites involved. Plus passing complex data to and from BG jobs is limited to objects that can be pickled, as I recall.

So while it's technically possible, it would be complicated and not necessarily an improvement.
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