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how does or on what basis does youtube-dl calculate the size of a page ? #13817

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shirishag75 opened this issue Aug 3, 2017 · 2 comments
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@shirishag75 shirishag75 commented Aug 3, 2017


Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2017.07.30.1. If it's not, read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

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I am sharing the following as an e.g. -

$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_DCVMhIdgwQ1uUE76XLXZg/videos --dateafter 20170727                               
[youtube:channel] UC_DCVMhIdgwQ1uUE76XLXZg: Downloading channel page
[youtube:playlist] UU_DCVMhIdgwQ1uUE76XLXZg: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: Uploads from DieselDesigns Gaming
[youtube:playlist] UU_DCVMhIdgwQ1uUE76XLXZg: Downloading page #1
[youtube:playlist] UU_DCVMhIdgwQ1uUE76XLXZg: Downloading page #2
[youtube:playlist] UU_DCVMhIdgwQ1uUE76XLXZg: Downloading page #3
[youtube:playlist] UU_DCVMhIdgwQ1uUE76XLXZg: Downloading page #4
[youtube:playlist] UU_DCVMhIdgwQ1uUE76XLXZg: Downloading page #5
[youtube:playlist] UU_DCVMhIdgwQ1uUE76XLXZg: Downloading page #6
[youtube:playlist] UU_DCVMhIdgwQ1uUE76XLXZg: Downloading page #7
[youtube:playlist] UU_DCVMhIdgwQ1uUE76XLXZg: Downloading page #8
[youtube:playlist] UU_DCVMhIdgwQ1uUE76XLXZg: Downloading page #9
[youtube:playlist] UU_DCVMhIdgwQ1uUE76XLXZg: Downloading page #10
[youtube:playlist] UU_DCVMhIdgwQ1uUE76XLXZg: Downloading page #11
[youtube:playlist] UU_DCVMhIdgwQ1uUE76XLXZg: Downloading page #12
[youtube:playlist] UU_DCVMhIdgwQ1uUE76XLXZg: Downloading page #13
[youtube:playlist] UU_DCVMhIdgwQ1uUE76XLXZg: Downloading page #14
[youtube:playlist] UU_DCVMhIdgwQ1uUE76XLXZg: Downloading page #15
[youtube:playlist] UU_DCVMhIdgwQ1uUE76XLXZg: Downloading page #16
[youtube:playlist] UU_DCVMhIdgwQ1uUE76XLXZg: Downloading page #17

How or what number of video entries make a page, it seems between 102, 103 videos constitute a page, can somebody share some more info ?

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@dstftw dstftw commented Aug 3, 2017

Each page contains a number of new videos returned after clicking "Load more" button.

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@siddht4 siddht4 commented Aug 3, 2017

the thing you are trying to download is a youtube playlist which is curently the total number of videos uploaded by youtube channel DieselDesigns Gaming. There are lots of videos. A single playlist contains around 30 videos i guess and more are added as the pages adds up

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