Only attempt to download new soundcloud tracks?

[NickWinston123]

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Is there a way to only attempt to download newer sound cloud tracks?

For instance, I have a crontab that runs a sh file every day, which downdownloads a specific users tacks (in attempt to auto update the folder )

This takes forever though, because it attempts to download every song (even the downloaded ones)
Is there a way for youtube-dl to keep a log of what has been downloaded and only attempt to download the newer tracks (ones not already downloaded)?

[dstftw]

--download-archive.

[NickWinston123]

@dstftw
Thank you, do i just add --download-archive to the end of my usual command or do I need to make the file and do --download-archive file.txt?

[NickWinston123]

@dstftw nvm I think i got it