Youtube-dl not writing to archive file when --skip-download is active

[ThomasWarnasch]

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%%G --add-metadata --download-archive youtube-dl-archive-verify.txt --skip-download]
[debug] Encodings: N/A?
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.05.01
[debug] Python version 3.6.5
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 20180410-d64183e, ffprobe N-75573-g1d0487f, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
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My current problem is that when I run youtube-dl with --skip-download it no longer writes to the archive file.
I'm attempting to check if youtube video IDs from a text file still lead to a video, and if they still do, write the ID to another text file. My goal is to later with another script check which IDs are still active and which aren't (though this doesn't have to be covered in my problem).

My entire current script is
set "urle=" for /F "tokens=*" %%A in (youtube-dl-archive.txt) do ( for /f "tokens=2" %%G IN ("%%A") DO ( echo %%G youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%%G --add-metadata --download-archive youtube-dl-archive-verify.txt --skip-download ) )

[dstftw]

This is expected behavior.