victorjzsun
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4 years ago When looking for new videos, the functions getVideosIds and getVideosIdsWithLessQueries (get videos from channel IDs) can't find unlisted or private videos. Videos that are uploaded with a schedule have a published date, and thus will be added to the playlist when the script is run after the published date.
The function getPlaylistVideoIds is slightly different. It can still find both unlisted and private videos that have been added to a playlist. Trying to add an unlisted video to the target playlist is fine, but adding a private video isn't, which is probably why your script crashed.
Luckily, we can check if a video obtained from a playlist is private. Within the getPlaylistVideoIds function, we can check the title and description of the video before adding it to the queue of videos to add. Below is the output of the PlaylistItems.list API call for a private video:
I haven't considered the "made for kids" impact on this script, will look into it more.
Fabian42
I'll close the issue then, but feel free to reopen if something comes up
When a newly uploaded private video gets added to one of the playlists on the right, the script tries to add it to the playlist on the left and fails. The debug sheet shows this error:
Couldn't update playlist with video (UuZv1vdNoxM), ERROR: Message: [API call to youtube.playlistItems.insert failed with error: Video not found.] Details: {"message":"Video not found.","code":404,"errors":[{"domain":"youtube.playlistItem","reason":"videoNotFound","message":"Video not found."}]}This might be related to the fact that "made for kids" videos now cannot be added to playlists (usually?), so it probably fails on all private videos, because it can't check if it has that property set or not. But that's just a guess.
I don't know what the best solution would be here, because just skipping all private videos would make the script not add any videos ever that were uploaded with a schedule.