YouTube missing videos when Downloading Channel, Possibly VEVO Accounts only?

[timethrow]

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Add the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

youtube-dl --config-location "/mnt/e/Personal Documents/Infrastructure/Scripts/YouTube-DL/YT-DownloadConfig.txt" -a /mnt/e/Personal\ Documents/Infrastructure/Scripts/YouTube-DL/YT-Music.txt -o "/mnt/f/My Music/Videos/YouTube Channel/%(uploader)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" >> musiclog.log
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: [u'-i', u'--continue', u'--no-post-overwrites', u'--download-archive', u'/mnt/e/Personal Documents/Infrastructure/Lists/YT-MasterArchive.txt', u'--prefer-ffmpeg', u'--merge-output-format', u'mkv', u'--write-sub', u'--all-subs', u'--convert-subs', u'srt', u'--embed-subs', u'--add-metadata', u'--write-description', u'--write-info-json', u'-v']
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--config-location', u'/mnt/e/Personal Documents/Infrastructure/Scripts/YouTube-DL/YT-DownloadConfig.txt', u'-a', u'/mnt/e/Personal Documents/Infrastructure/Scripts/YouTube-DL/YT-Music.txt', u'-o', u'/mnt/f/My Music/Videos/YouTube Channel/%(uploader)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s']
[debug] Batch file urls: [u'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5MujsH-hrVWHBBfSSmv18A', u'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwceFb1owDJnLxu3zmeQrfjdfBKSe3gYl', u'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqk3CdGN_j8IR9z4uBbVPSg', u'https://www.youtube.com/user/LordeMusic', u'https://www.youtube.com/user/LadyGagaVEVO', u'https://www.youtube.com/user/Marinaandthediamonds', u'https://www.youtube.com/user/SiaVEVO', u'https://www.youtube.com/user/adelelondon', u'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-huZzH2Ozkkt3lSIOSriQg', u'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPHjpfnnGklkRBBTd0k6aHg', u'https://www.youtube.com/user/icreateddisco/videos', u'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIjYyZxkFucP_W-tmXg_9Ow', u'https://www.youtube.com/user/davidguettavevo', u'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt-am4x4ZyeohfgM85qFgdQ', u'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYvmuw-JtVrTZQ-7Y4kd63Q']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out None, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.03.18
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 (CPython) - Linux-4.4.0-43-Microsoft-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.6-1, ffprobe 3.2.6-1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
...
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When downloading Music Channels from YouTube some of the videos are missing and not includes in the downlaods for example;

https://www.youtube.com/user/icreateddisco/videos

Only shows 70 videos available, however many more are uplaoded and playable, an example of a missing one would be;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkeiKbqa02g

[youtube:user] icreateddisco: Downloading channel page
[youtube:playlist] UUIjYyZxkFucP_W-tmXg_9Ow: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: Uploads from Calvin Harris
[youtube:playlist] playlist Uploads from Calvin Harris: Downloading 70 videos
[download] Downloading video 1 of 70

Another example is this channel;
https://www.youtube.com/user/florencemachine

A few that are missing are ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScxZwXH09Ws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HajiEqEtIRY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMBTvuUlm98

[youtube:user] florencemachine: Downloading channel page
[youtube:playlist] UU5MujsH-hrVWHBBfSSmv18A: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: Uploads from florencemachine
[youtube:playlist] playlist Uploads from florencemachine: Downloading 37 videos
[download] Downloading video 1 of 37
[youtube] iu7YURHcmKI: Downloading webpage
[youtube] iu7YURHcmKI: Downloading video info webpage

All the missing videos seem to be official Music Videos or Lyric Videos for officially released stuff, everything else seems to be fine and included. So far only noticed it on the vevo style accounts.

Is there away to get youtube-dl to download all the videos in the channel including the music videos.

[ealgase]

Not a youtube-dl issue, this is actually YouTube lying about the true channel of the video. The channel that video is hosted on is UCaHNFIob5Ixv74f5on3lvIw.

[timethrow]

Thanks for that, How did you find that Channel ID, it seems to have more in it?

I thought I found the one for 'https://www.youtube.com/user/florencemachine' as 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5MujsH-hrVWHBBfSSmv18A' but its still shows the same number of videos and there are videos missing (same examples as above)

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5MujsH-hrVWHBBfSSmv18A
[youtube:channel] UC5MujsH-hrVWHBBfSSmv18A: Downloading channel page
[youtube:playlist] UU5MujsH-hrVWHBBfSSmv18A: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: Uploads from florencemachine
[youtube:playlist] playlist Uploads from florencemachine: Downloading 37 videos
[download] Downloading video 1 of 37
[youtube] iu7YURHcmKI: Downloading webpage
[youtube] iu7YURHcmKI: Downloading video info webpage

I tried playing a video and getting the Channel ID from the User underneath the video but that did not seem to work in this case.

Thanks

[timethrow]

Dont worry, think I have found it now;

youtube-dl -j --skip-download "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMBTvuUlm98" | jq -r '.channel_url'