Improving speed by not downloading all pages in a playlist

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
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Hi, I've been running the following command:
youtube-dl --date 20190206 -o '%(uploader)s/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCElybFZ60Hk1NSjgasd3I2sg/videos

but I noticed that when the channel has hundreds or thousands of videos it takes a long time to go through them all before the download starts (if there even are any videos from 20190206). I end up seeing lines like this, again and again:

[youtube:user] JtheLinuxguy: Downloading channel page
[youtube:playlist] UUxQKHvKbmSzGMvUrVtJYnUA: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: Uploads from LearnLinux.tv
[youtube:playlist] UUxQKHvKbmSzGMvUrVtJYnUA: Downloading page #1
[youtube:playlist] UUxQKHvKbmSzGMvUrVtJYnUA: Downloading page #2
[youtube:playlist] UUxQKHvKbmSzGMvUrVtJYnUA: Downloading page #3
[youtube:playlist] playlist Uploads from LearnLinux.tv: Downloading 352 videos
[download] Downloading video 1 of 352
[youtube] C_P_mlomIuA: Downloading webpage
[youtube] C_P_mlomIuA: Downloading video info webpage
[download] 2019-02-06 upload date is not in range 2019-02-05 - 2019-02-05

Is there a way to speed this up so that youtube-dl only goes through the first 10 or 20 videos and not all 352 (in this specific example)? Or is there some other possible way to speed this up?

Thank you in advance for your help. I really appreciate it.

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--playlist-start NUMBER          Playlist video to start at (default is 1)
--playlist-end NUMBER            Playlist video to end at (default is last)
--playlist-items ITEM_SPEC       Playlist video items to download. Specify
                                 indices of the videos in the playlist
                                 separated by commas like: "--playlist-items
                                 1,2,5,8" if you want to download videos
                                 indexed 1, 2, 5, 8 in the playlist. You can
                                 specify range: "--playlist-items
                                 1-3,7,10-13", it will download the videos
                                 at index 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13.

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Thank you! :)