Skip private videos in playlists

[benovic]

hi there,
when I youtube-dl a playlist from youtube, youtube-dl does not skip private videos, instead it's just stopping the script.

i had a look around and did not find a solution for that :(

[benovic]

It's more of a feature request than a bug. I did a quick look in the python files but couldn't track it down due to user incompetence.

[jaimeMF]

Please post the output of youtube-dl {THE_PLAYLIST_URL} -v, so that we can test it and find a solution.

[benovic]

Playlist is 3 videos:
public
private
public

Here ya go:

[bg@bundesnachrichtendienst random]$ youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX0g748fkegS54oiDN4AXKl7BR7mLIydP -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX0g748fkegS54oiDN4AXKl7BR7mLIydP', '-v']
WARNING: Assuming --restrict-filenames isnce file system encoding cannot encode all charactes. Set the LC_ALL environment variable to fix this.
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.10.07
[debug] Python version 3.3.2 - Linux-3.11.4-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:playlist] PLX0g748fkegS54oiDN4AXKl7BR7mLIydP: Downloading page #1
[youtube:playlist] PLX0g748fkegS54oiDN4AXKl7BR7mLIydP: Downloading page #2
[download] Downloading playlist: ytdl_test
[youtube:playlist] playlist 'ytdl_test': Collected 3 video ids (downloading 3 of them)
[download] Downloading video #1 of 3
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] eL8FVkTVP_g: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] eL8FVkTVP_g: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] eL8FVkTVP_g: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: What_is_this_216_number_Sol_Kinetic_Typography_inspired_by_the_movie_PI_-_made_in_Blender_3D-eL8FVkTVP_g.mp4
[download] 100% of 31.91MiB in 00:19
[download] Downloading video #2 of 3
[youtube] S9c1s1kir8M: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] S9c1s1kir8M: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: YouTube said: This video is private.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 348, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 117, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1310, in _real_extract
    raise ExtractorError(u'YouTube said: %s' % video_info['reason'][0], expected=True)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: YouTube said: This video is private.

[phihag]

By convention, all shell programs abort if they encounter any error (for example, the user may have forgotten to specify the --user and --password options to log in to get all his videos, including the private ones). You can simply pass in the -i option to advise youtube-dl to skip videos it can't download. We may make that the default in future versions.

[benovic]

Thank you and sorry for taking your time on a non-issue. I have used a shell that doesn't scroll up enough to display the -i option.

[storrgie]

Thanks for posting this, I didn't know that --ignore-errors would resolve the issue until finding it.

[nigawtesterb]

thank you for this. It solved my issue as well :)

[vatsarahul999]

Me too