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Subtitles are sometimes essential for a video to be useful. For example, a person learning Spanish may wish to download only the videos that contain both English and Spanish subtitles from a large playlist. The same applies to a machine learning researcher working on automatic translation or speech recognition.
I propose adding an option for this, for example
--on-missing-sub warn|skip|abort.warn(the default) would be the current behavior,skipwould skip downloading the video when any of the subtitles specified with--sub-langare unavailable andabortwould cause youtube-dl to quit.An example invocation (for the use-case described in the first paragraph) would be: