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YouTube: many related channels being searched, leading to recursion error #27266
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In new Youtube UI channel links point to Home tab that is downloaded. If you need to download another tab - pass the URL of that tab. |
shouldn't the recursion error still be looked at and addressed? If i wanted to keep the links i have and the new behavior, then there is still a problem with the looping between friends/channels and the eventual recursion error. |
I was just coming here to check if this type of issue was reported. I have a script that uses the latest version of YouTube-DL and noticed earlier today that one of my channel directories were filled with garbage and realized it was downloading things other than just the channel URL provided. Unless there's something here that I'm missing. I'm using the latest version, but it's the one installed with Edit: It took me a bit to try and understand what dstftw is saying, does this mean that things were changed in such a way that breaks compatibility between most older download scripts? If I'm reading this right, instead of downloading a channel by default - youtube-dl now downloads every link in a channels This seems like functionality that'd have been mitigated and locked behind a command flag to enable, this is dangerous to those who are used to just passing in a channel link. Lots of automation out there that just update the script and pass in channel URL's like my automation tools. It appears I can mitigate this myself by adding |
@ZizzyDizzyMC yes, i looked at the code after the comment and it seems you now have to add a suffix of IMHO, it should, by default, limit itself to mimic the old behavior and add |
@dstftw thank you for the quick fix. on a tangent, but related matter about time? i've poured over the output file settings many times and have tried various options. How does one use the Is there a parameter i've missed to use? I'm using this with Plex and always trying to guarantee a unique episode number in the filename: |
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Recently i noticed that additional channels were being downloaded that were not specified in my configuration file. the time to processed my file also increased 5x. I added the
--playlist-end 30
to my file to try to help with this, and now i get a recursion error. Has something changed where yt-dl now crawls related channels too? Is there a setting to change this?youtube recursion.txt
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