Determine completed status without downloading videos?

[FredLackeyOfficial]

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How can I determine from bash if youtube-dl still has work to do for a particular playlist WITHOUT downloading videos? For example, if youtube-dl is used to CONTINUE downloading an existing playlist (for example, a Pluralsight course, a Youtube channel, etc.), youtube-dl loads the manifest and determines one-by-one if a video has already been downloaded. I would like to use youtube-dl to determine if all of the videos have already been downloaded WITHOUT doing the actual download. The goal is to mark the Pluralsight course or Youtube channel as "complete" so I may continue with other automated processing.

[dstftw]

Store video ids in --download-archive per playlist. List ids for a playlist with -o '%(extractor)s %(id)s' --get-filename and match against the archive file. If all of them present in the archive file then it's finished.