How to check if a url is valid (not private not deleted)

[seyeeet]

Im using youtube-dl 2020.05.08 with ubuntu 16.04 and python3.
I want to know if there is a way to check if the youtube link is valid or not (e.g. "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tF9Rt2uFtw").
using youtube-dl -j is too slow.
I was wondering if there is a better way/faster to do it?

[dstftw]

What do you even mean by valid?

[seyeeet]

@dstftw you could have just clicked on the link that I provided to see what I meant.

[karimelgazar]

in a python script you can skip these videos without crashing by adding the property ignoreerrors
ydl = YoutubeDL({
# this line is VERY IMPORTANT
"ignoreerrors": True})