Feature Request: Download all videos that haven't been downloaded before

[forthrin]

Take a look at Apple Trailers Downloader. It has the brilliant function of continuously downloading all new ("Latest") trailers from Apple, by keeping track of already downloaded trailers by checking a text file rather than local file existence. Thus trailers that are downloaded earlier and deleted are not downloaded again!

youtube-dl already supports Apple Trailers. Could a similar "download all videos that haven't been downloaded earlier" functionality be added for all sites that have video lists of some sort. I reckon a single text file would suffice for keeping track of all downloaded videos.

[dstftw]

Use --download-archive.

[forthrin]

You guys have thought of everything, haven't you? :) I really got to read the manual thoroughly some day! However, which URL do I give youtube-dl for downloading all (latest) Apple Trailers?

youtube-dl --download-archive ~/.youtube-dl.txt http://trailers.apple.com/#section=justadded
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://trailers.apple.com/#section=justadded

[dstftw]

Trailers' playlists are unsupported currently.

[forthrin]

I'll ask the author of ATD if he would be willing to merge the functionality into youtube-dl. Both tools are Python which should make things easier.

[dstftw]

youtube-dl may not depend on BeautifulSoup.

[forthrin]

See comment aag/apple_trailer_downloader#9 (comment) It would be nice if someone took the effort to support playlists at Apple Trailers.

[remitamine]

support playlists at Apple Trailers.

will be supported in the next version.

youtube-dl -F http://trailers.apple.com/#section=mostpopular
[appletrailers:section] mostpopular: Downloading JSON metadata
[download] Downloading playlist: Most Popular
[appletrailers:section] playlist Most Popular: Collected 80 video ids (downloading 80 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 80
[appletrailers] diablo: Downloading XML
[appletrailers] diablo-tlr1: Downloading settings json
[download] Downloading playlist: diablo
[appletrailers] playlist diablo: Collected 1 video ids (downloading 1 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 1
[info] Available formats for diablo-trailer:
format code  extension  resolution note
0            mov        848x360    
1            mov        848x360    
2            mov        1280x544   
3            mov        1280x544   
4            mov        1920x816   (best)
[download] Finished downloading playlist: diablo
[download] Downloading video 2 of 80
...

[forthrin]

That's brilliant news! I really appreciate it and will use it a lot. I'm quite impressed with the prompt responses for this tool. Keep up the good work!