unavailable videos are not skipped when downloading playlists

[filippog]

hi,
when trying to download a playlist it seems that youtube-dl will stop at the first unavailable video, e.g.

[youtube] XXXXXX: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: YouTube said: The uploader has not made this video available in your country.

and not carry on with the rest, IMO there should be a (non-default) option available.
I tried with --reject-title but apparently title matching is applied after the error reporting and therefore the video is not skipped.

youtube-dl from homebrew btw:

$ youtube-dl --version
2013.08.17

[phihag]

There is a non-default option available: --ignore-errors or -i for short. Do you have a suggestion what the description of that option should say to clarify that it does what you want?

[filippog]

ah! thanks that was fast, I totally overlooked that and was searching for "skip", perhaps something to be added to the help text?

edit: of course another viable thing would be to suggest --ignore-errors in the error text :)

[phihag]

The help for -i is now

-i continue on download errors. This can be used to skip unavailable videos.

The error message already feels quite overloaded, and it's not easy to decide whether adding -i would help (the user may just download a single video).