Youtube-dl should keep continue to download next video if one of the video on the playlist is failed

[kokizzu]

for example if we download a playlist containing 100 videos, and the second one has an error (timeout or ERROR: unable to download video webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found), it should continue to next video instead of stopping the whole program

[phihag]

Simply pass in -i. I'm not sure that making that the default is a sensible option - we have discussed it before, and it may be the default one day.

[mihajlo]

example to be more clear:

youtube-dl -f bestaudio --audio-quality 0 --audio-format mp3 -i -x --extract-audio https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa8z0Y9At06iw3PbaAepPJdwv2gXA1YET

[lucidyan]

Make it default please. Big luck that I found this thread!

[Hrxn]

It's right here: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#options

And right at the top if you do youtube-dl -h

[laurent22]

It would be better if it was a default, last time I googled this I found nothing and gave up. I think most Unix programs that deal with a lot of files continue even after an error, eg. rsync. If the concern is that the user might not see the errors, maybe they should be buffered and printed in full at the end of the process.

[laurent22]

Alternatively, maybe a good compromise would be to mention the required flag in the error message. For example:

ERROR: hCpFeE68Yjg: YouTube said: This video is private. (Use the -i flag to ignore this error)

[Purgator]

I agree with the default or at least warning, but it should be default. Why you should expect to get only some videos but not some others ? That not having sense to me.
Thx for opening this issue btw, I was about to get mad :o

[yarwelp]

Make it default and make youtube-dl list the videos that failed to download at the end and exit non-zero.