From 440b4466ff64e6589596e35dea7c076d76698dde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Miller <adam@archive.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:29:55 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix: adjust max_extraction_depth default value

---
 yt_dlp/options.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/options.py b/yt_dlp/options.py
index 4bd703e489..106df30657 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/options.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/options.py
@@ -1885,7 +1885,7 @@ def create_parser():
         help='Number of retries for known extractor errors (default is %default), or "infinite"')
     extractor.add_option(
         '--max-extraction-depth',
-        dest='max_extraction_depth', default=-1,
+        dest='max_extraction_depth', default='inf',
         help='Maximum depth when recursing into non-video url chains (default is unlimited)',
     )
     extractor.add_option(