Closed kloklojul closed 3 years ago
update to 2020.12.05 and problem still persists.
Errors are still the same.
WARNING: Unable to extract video title ERROR: Video unavailable
Hi!
I'm not sure about the errors, but I'm also running into this issue on Windows when talking about the number of downloaded videos in a playlist/channel.
I've just downloaded a playlist with 100 videos, youtube-dl finished downloading playlist, but when i checked the folder there was only 50, then i run youtube-dl a couple of times against that playlist again and this time it downloaded the rest.
This also happens when checking the download archive, youtube-dl reports only halv of what's in the archive file like 15 out of 30 or 50 out of 100 etc.
I have this "issue" since last week, but the workaround is always to re-try the commands 2-3 times, that's when it works properly.
@kloklojul not sure if you have tried that? if not, try the commands manually a couple of times, not the script.
i'm using ubuntu server. I tried usind the command manualy and with other parameters (such as using the generic extractor) but unfortunatly it always only downloads the first 200 at best. The generic extractor only downloads the first 100.
Possibly related to #27313
i'm using ubuntu server. I tried usind the command manualy and with other parameters (such as using the generic extractor) but unfortunatly it always only downloads the first 200 at best. The generic extractor only downloads the first 100.
@kloklojul Do you try more than once?
Possibly related to #27313
He is getting a different error message but it does have the same behaviour.
i'm using ubuntu server. I tried usind the command manualy and with other parameters (such as using the generic extractor) but unfortunatly it always only downloads the first 200 at best. The generic extractor only downloads the first 100.
@kloklojul Do you try more than once?
yep, 5 times just now
Very strange, i downloaded a list with 540 videos, but as i said the first try gets only some videos so a re-try is necessary. But you sound more unlucky than me
Ok, i found the issue, atleast partially.
I used "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC6u0Tct-Fo&list=PL36D642111D65BE7C" as the link for the playlist. Removing the video parameter from the url makes it work again(so "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL36D642111D65BE7C" instead). While it worked in the past using the first video of the playlist as the url youtube now defaults to only loading the first 200 videos of the playlist which can also be observed when opening the link with the video parameter in a browser. Now whats left is getting youtube-dl to work on the first try (most of the time it only downloads the first 100 videos now). As a workaround i have youtube-dl try to download the playlist multiple times in hopes that atleast one of them gets all the videos (basicly i just copy&past'ed the youtube-dl 5 times in my script).
A suggestion of mine for the youtube extractor would be, when someone is trying to download a playlist make the programm check for the ?v parameter and auto format the link.
For me, it only downloads first 100... This also seems to be reocurring issue. It appeared back in mid november or something like that, then it was fixed, no its back again. Strange thing, I was on version 2020.11.24, where it was working few days back, now today didnt work, updated to 12.07. and still doesn't. My guess is there are some changes being done on youtube side....
@kloklojul
It is hard to tell if it is because of the script but it has been happening for more and more users lately including me, and yes the workaround is to re-try until it gets all the downloads, hope it gets fixed
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for the past few months i have used a crontab and youtube-dl to keep a playlist synced with my local storage. The job runs once every day. The script i use for this looks like this :
Up untill some days ago this worked flawlessly but lately the script only downloads the first 200 or sometime just the first 100 videos and than just stops while saying "Finished downloading playlist". The only errors i'm getting is when a video is not available anymore.