Feature Request:

[aram535]

• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
• Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)
• Feature request (request for a new functionality)
• Question
• Other

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Would be great if you could replace your archive.txt if it was overriden by mistake.
The closest I was able to do it with was:
# youtube-dl --get-id --skip-download --ignore-config --download-archive archive.txt https://www.youtube.com/xxx > archive.txt
The script still goes through every video to check the video and for a large playlist it take a while. Out of the 1400 videos I only want the last 5 + 1 more in the middle.

[dstftw]

You can replace download archive any time it's a simple text file. Clearly explain what are you doing and what is not correct.

[aram535]

Nothing is incorrect. This is more of a use-case request.

How can I re-create the full --download-archive from a channel without going through every video?

[dstftw]

You can't. In general you don't know the video id until you go through every video.