Missing/restricted files in playlists #46

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opened 2026-02-20 22:24:05 -05:00 by deekerman · 2 comments

deekerman commented

2026-02-20 22:24:05 -05:00

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Originally created by @imrehg on GitHub (Feb 9, 2011).

When processing a playlist, there are a variety of reasons why a video might not be accessible: it might be deleted on its own, the whole user account might be removed or can be restricted to a geographic region. Currently the user is left with breaking download in this case and cannot do anything else but getting each video manually.
Case to the point: not being in England, the third video in list 404s out, breaking the download
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F5D324185EE73FEC

What would be the right way to handle this situation?
I'm thinking about adding an extra option, like --skip-missing to ignore download errors for playlists and just skip those files. I started on it, just got a bit lost on the multiple level error handling. Before I go any deeper wanted to see what's the view on this.

Originally created by @imrehg on GitHub (Feb 9, 2011). When processing a playlist, there are a variety of reasons why a video might not be accessible: it might be deleted on its own, the whole user account might be removed or can be restricted to a geographic region. Currently the user is left with breaking download in this case and cannot do anything else but getting each video manually. Case to the point: not being in England, the third video in list 404s out, breaking the download http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F5D324185EE73FEC What would be the right way to handle this situation? I'm thinking about adding an extra option, like **--skip-missing** to ignore download errors for playlists and just skip those files. I started on it, just got a bit lost on the multiple level error handling. Before I go any deeper wanted to see what's the view on this.

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2026-02-20 22:24:06 -05:00

deekerman commented

2026-02-20 22:24:07 -05:00

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@rg3 commented on GitHub (Feb 10, 2011):

I think you're looking for the --ignore-errors option (-i in the short form). I consider this a non-issue, unless you have additional comments, so I'm closing it.

@rg3 commented on GitHub (Feb 10, 2011): I think you're looking for the --ignore-errors option (-i in the short form). I consider this a non-issue, unless you have additional comments, so I'm closing it.

deekerman commented

2026-02-20 22:24:08 -05:00

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@imrehg commented on GitHub (Feb 11, 2011):

Totally right, it's my bad. Sorry about that.

@imrehg commented on GitHub (Feb 11, 2011): Totally right, it's my bad. Sorry about that.

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