possibility to skip playlist when downloading whole channel

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Hi,

There are a couple of channels where i prefer to fetch all playlists except one, so I use links like this: https://www.youtube.com/user//playlists

On many of these channels the 'liked items' playlist can contain several thousand videos and is not wanted.
Is there an option like --reject-title for playlists? I can not seem to find one.
I have spent the last week or so reading and relearning python to make it work but it's a slow progress.
Thanks for writing clear code, btw.

my relevant (working, but slow) code so far:

def do_download(options,args): #options = ytdl_options, args = args for my script
    """check the download options and run youtube-dl"""
    with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(options) as ydl:
        if args.playlist:
            play_dic = ydl.extract_info(args.playlist, download=False)
            #args.playlist=https://www.youtube.com/user/<anychannel>/playlists
        else:
            print "you need to specify playlist/video to download."
            print "exiting."
            return
        for entry in play_dic['entries']:
            print ""
            if not entry:
                print "ERROR: no entry found..."
                continue
            if entry.get('title') == args.skiplist or entry.get('title') == 'Liked videos':
                print "will skip playlist ", entry.get('title')
                print " with link ", entry.get('webpage_url')
                print("")
            else:
                print "list for exclusion not found"
                #download should go here
                ydl.download([entry.get('webpage_url')])

Is there a way to filter the unwanted playlist before downloading information about all the videos in that list?

Ideally; ydl.extract_info(args.playlist, download=False, skiplist='Liked videos','Other lists')
or; ydl.download(args.playlist, skiplist='Liked videos','Other lists')

Apologize it I didn't format correctly - preview doesn't seem to work with palemoon.