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Request - Prevent Unnecessary Date Checks for Channels #9095
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Currently if you specify a date parameter when downloading from a YouTube channel, youtube-dl will check every single video on that channel to see if it matches the date requirement. While this makes sense for an unorder playlist, or for
--datebefore, it is unnecessary for--dateand--dateafterwhen applied to a YouTube channel (which by its nature is already chronologically ordered).I propose that when using
--dateor--dateafterand specifying a URL which points to a YouTube channel, youtube-dl should stop downloading video info once a video with a date before the specified date is found.For example, if I run youtube-dl with
--date 20160407and specify a channel URL, once a video from 20160406 is found, youtube-dl will not check any further videos.Cheers.