Skip when information download fails

[Schabernack]

Instead of cancelling the whole downloading process, maybe just skip the failed item and continue with the rest? Example:

[ ❤ :~/apps]$ ./youtube-dl --verbose http://8tracks.com/inchanpratiwi/morning-jog                                                                                                                13:53:53 
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://8tracks.com/inchanpratiwi/morning-jog']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.08.02.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Darwin-13.2.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[8tracks] morning-jog: Downloading webpage
[8tracks] morning-jog: Downloading song information 1/10
[8tracks] morning-jog: Downloading song information 2/10
[8tracks] morning-jog: Downloading song information 3/10
[8tracks] morning-jog: Downloading song information 4/10
[8tracks] morning-jog: Downloading song information 5/10
[8tracks] morning-jog: Downloading song information 6/10
[8tracks] morning-jog: Downloading song information 7/10
ERROR: Failed to download song information: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 203, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1231, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 410, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 523, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 448, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 531, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

[phihag]

You can pass in the -i option to do that (pass it in a config file such as /.config/youtube-dl.conf if you want it all the time).

We may default to that behavior, but for now, we're behaving like many other console applications that abort once they encounter an error.

[Schabernack]

sorry, i forgot to mention that i also tried it with -i enabled and it still didnt work.

[ ❤ :~/apps]$ ./youtube-dl --verbose -i http://8tracks.com/inchanpratiwi/morning-jog                                                                                                             23:54:59 
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '-i', 'http://8tracks.com/inchanpratiwi/morning-jog']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.08.05
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Darwin-13.2.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[8tracks] morning-jog: Downloading webpage
[8tracks] morning-jog: Downloading song information 1/10
[8tracks] morning-jog: Downloading song information 2/10
[8tracks] morning-jog: Downloading song information 3/10
[8tracks] morning-jog: Downloading song information 4/10
[8tracks] morning-jog: Downloading song information 5/10
[8tracks] morning-jog: Downloading song information 6/10
[8tracks] morning-jog: Downloading song information 7/10
[8tracks] morning-jog: Downloading song information 8/10
ERROR: Failed to download song information: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 203, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1231, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 410, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 523, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 448, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 531, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

[Schabernack]

@phihag any chance of reopening this issue?

[dstftw]

Looks like this issue is duplicate of #2950 and #2310.