Strange behaviour of --download-archive

[urza]

Hello,

I have debian server downloading every night (with command in crontab -e calling simple script to download my vimeo liked videos) and saving downloaded ids to "downloaded.txt" file.

But it behaves strangely and I dont understand what is going on.

First, here is my crontab -e:

here is the youtube-dl command that gets executed:

and finally here is the problem:

The file gets downloaded every day, looks like there is some problem writing archive to downloaded.txt, but the file is owned by me and has write for everybody.

Furthermore, strange behaviour: If I delete the duplicate files and leave only one of them, then it will stop donwnloading them again, and will leave just the one there.

[dstftw]

Carefully read new issue template and provide all requested information.

[urza]

Here you go dear dstftw

I AM AT THE LATETS VERSION

• [X ] I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2018.02.26

Before submitting an issue make sure you have:

• [ X] At least skimmed through the README, most notably the FAQ and BUGS sections
  I SPENT LIKE AN HOUR TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT FROM YOUR DOCUMENTATION
• [X ] Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones
• [X ] Checked that provided video/audio/playlist URLs (if any) are alive and playable in a browser

What is the purpose of your issue?

• [X ] Question (I KNOW IT IS CONFUSING BECAUSE I DIDNT PUT THE QUESTION MARK, BUT I AM ACTUALLY ASKING WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE COMMAND AND WHY IS IT NOT WORKING AS INTENDED)

SINCE MY SCRIPT RUNS FROM CRONTAB, I BELIEVE THE SCREENSHOTS AND DESCRIPTIONS WOULD BE HELPFUL, BUT LET ME KNOW IF YOU NEED KNOW ANYTHING ELSE OR FILL ANY MORE OF YOUR FORMS.

[urza]

And here is your DEBUG LOG, you have some BUG there as it turns out:

./dl_vimeoL.sh
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'--download-archive', u'/media/strix/urza/multimedia/VIDEOS/SHORT/vimeo-likes/downloaded.txt', u'-o', u'/poolgarden/urza/media/VIDEOS/SHORT/vimeo-likes/20180227-%(uploader)s-%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s', u'-w', u'--restrict-filenames', u'vimeo.com/user755559/likes']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.02.26
[debug] Python version 2.7.13 (CPython) - Linux-4.9.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-9.3
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: The url doesn't specify the protocol, trying with http
[generic] likes: Requesting header
[redirect] Following redirect to https://vimeo.com/user755559/likes
[vimeo:likes] 755559: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: Videos urza likes
[vimeo:likes] 755559: Downloading page 1/34
[vimeo:likes] 755559: Downloading page 2/34
[vimeo:likes] 755559: Downloading page 3/34
[vimeo:likes] 755559: Downloading page 4/34
[vimeo:likes] 755559: Downloading page 5/34
[vimeo:likes] 755559: Downloading page 6/34
[vimeo:likes] 755559: Downloading page 7/34
[vimeo:likes] 755559: Downloading page 8/34
[vimeo:likes] 755559: Downloading page 9/34
[vimeo:likes] 755559: Downloading page 10/34
[vimeo:likes] 755559: Downloading page 11/34
[vimeo:likes] 755559: Downloading page 12/34
[vimeo:likes] 755559: Downloading page 13/34
[vimeo:likes] 755559: Downloading page 14/34
[vimeo:likes] 755559: Downloading page 15/34
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 519, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2199, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 435, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 548, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 473, in error
return self._call_chain(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 556, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)