Feature request: Remember downloads in a text file

[forthrin]

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2018.08.04
• At least skimmed through the README, most notably the FAQ and BUGS sections
• Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones
• Feature request (request for a new functionality)

Does youtube-dl have a feature that puts URLs of downloaded videos in a line-based file (~/.youtube-dl.txt or something), so when you download videos, only URLs not in the text file are downloaded?

This is particularly useful for playlists that update now and then with new videos, and would generally hugely accelerate the process of eliminating videos you have already downloaded.

I couldn't find anything in the manual pages that directly referred to such a feature.

Could this be implemented?

[forthrin]

Never mind. I found --download-archive. Please delete this issue.