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--playlist-reverse no longer seems to work with --playlist-items in the expected way #26306
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NinKenDo64
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Can I ask why this issue was marked a duplicate. I genuinely could not find the same issue. The closest I can find is: 6845 But that's a feature request. My issue is not a feature request, it's a feature that worked and is now broken. That feature request also predates by years my use of --playlist-reverse and --playlist-items together. If somebody has already logged this issue, fair enough, but I can't find it and would like to follow the thread if it exists. |
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When calling youtube-dl on a channel, as I'm sure you're aware, it treats it like a playlist. So it's possible to call --youtube-items N argument on it and download the Nth video on the channel. This works in reverse chronological order, so 1 is the most recent video, with the numbers in descending date order. I was previously using the --playlist-reverse argument to ensure that 1 was the oldest video and the numbers went in ascending date order instead. However this expected behaviour appears to have broken at some point, I'm unclear when, and now the --playlist-items argument seems to ignore the --playlist-reverse argument. Therefore it's no longer possible to have a stable numbering of videos (stable assuming none are removed from the channel), which seems like a negative outcome and seems to largely defeat the purpose of --playlist-reverse in the first place.
The channel I'm testing with is at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa6ERCDt3GzkvLye32ar89w
However have tested with other channels and no difference. I have also tested with actual standard YouTuber playlists as opposed to channel pages and same thing happens.
Let me know if there's anything else I should try.
Thanks so much for this awesome tool.