Download playlist ids into video archive

[RadAd]

Is there a way to download the video ids into the archive but not download the videos? I only want to download new videos added to a playlist, not the current ones.

I tried:

youtube-dl --skip-download --download-archive video.txt

[jaimeMF]

Is there a way to download the video ids into the archive but not download the videos?

Videos are only added to the archive when the download is finished (that's its purpose).

I only want to download new videos added to a playlist, not the current ones.

I may have misunderstood you, but youtube-dl --download-archive video.txt PLAYLIST_URL will only download the videos that are not already in the archive. It should work, could you give a more detailed explanation of why it doesn't work?

[RadAd]

I have already seen the videos in the playlist so I do not want to download them. I do want to download new videos as they are added to the list.

So I was trying to create an archive file to skip all the videos currently in the playlist. Then next time I download the playlist it will only download the new videos.

I thought that the --skip_download flag might allow me to create the archive file but it didn't, maybe thats not its purpose.

[jaimeMF]

Assuming you are using the bash shell, you can run youtube-dl PLAYLIST_URL --get-id | while read ID; do echo youtube $ID; done > archive.txt to create the archive.