ytdl-org / youtube-dl

Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/
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Show video hash on error in quiet mode #17351

Open RankoKohime opened 6 years ago

RankoKohime commented 6 years ago

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I use youtube-dl heavily in downloading mostly YouTube content, usually by channel, and downloaded videos are added to an archive file.

Youtube-dl produces a LOT of stdout information when downloading from a large list of videos/channels, making the quiet option highly desirable.

However, when youtube-dl encounters an error, it prints a generic error with no reference to the video in question, requiring that it be re-run without quiet enabled to see the stdout line where the video/site are mentioned, to address the error. (Which I usually do by adding the particular video to the archive file manually).

It would be helpful if when youtube-dl encounters an error, it also prints the video information to stderr as well.

RankoKohime commented 5 years ago

Just an update on this, it seems to still be an issue even when quiet mode is not enabled, and on the current version as well. (2019-07-16)