Feature Request: "--get-playlist-number"

[keybounce]

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I want to select specific videos from a playlist. Said playlist includes videos I've already downloaded and will skip.

I want to be able to say "youtube-dl --get-filename --get-playlist-number playlist" (or something similar), so I know what numbers to pass to "youtube-dl --playlist-items 2,3,5,7,11" (or similar).

Is there any way to do something like this now?

[dstftw]

Why even bother with that? Just use --download-archive.

[keybounce]

Nope.

I am using --download-archive. (It's in the default config file for me).
Some videos in the playlist I have are of no interest to me.

I want to see what videos are in the playlist, and decide which to download.

If a video is in the playlist and in the download-archive list file, then it won't even be attempted, and I won't see a filename for it -- so if I am counting filenames, I won't have the right playlist index.

(Entirely separate, why am I not getting notices when a response to my posts here come in?)

[dstftw]

--get-filename -o '%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s'.

[keybounce]

Ohh, that should work nicely.

(and still no email notices of responses.)