Download only new videos

[zioalex]

Hi dear,
Is there a way to download only new video added to an existent playlist?

Actually the program try to download and see that the file is already here.

Thanks
Alex

[phihag]

youtube-dl should skip videos that are already downloaded. If it doesn't for you, can you post the console log (with an ls -l before and after) of an example session where youtube-dl failed to do so?

[zioalex]

Hi Philipp,
yes youtube-dl doesn't redownload the file but it parse every playlist
occurrence; this can be time waste if the play list is long.

My query was to know if is there any way to improve this aspect.

I have problem to DL the watch later list. Is there a different procecure?

Thanks
Alex

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Philipp Hagemeister <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

youtube-dl should skip videos that are already downloaded. If it doesn't
for you, can you post the console log (with an ls -l before and after) of
an example session where youtube-dl failed to do so?

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[viktorlindgren]

I have noted the performance problem

One youtube-user has over 1800 videos. I use the --dateafter option to downlaod the latest. Example: It say it is no longer in range after 100 videos is downloaded, which is right. But it have to go through the 1700 until it exit!

I have found a little better way to handle only new videos, see: #1477

[bartekbrak]

Also, it would be nice for the skip mechanism to take into account converted audio files (I use --extract-audio --audio-format mp3) as the original videos get deleted. So, when matching the already downloaded filename, skip the extension, perhaps.

[jaimeMF]

@bartekbrak it's not the perfect solution (implementing it could be a bit messy), but you can use --download-archive. Since you request is not directly related to this, please open a new issue if you have any problem.

[ghost]

@jaimeMF thanks for the tip!