ExtractError due to copyright restriction

[Phyks]

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When using youtube-dl embedded in a Python script, I get:

ERROR: E5ndMUBoiRE: YouTube said: This video contains content from [Merlin] PIAS, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/phyks/.local/share/virtualenvs/6d39af90e64ae92/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 676, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/home/phyks/.local/share/virtualenvs/6d39af90e64ae92/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 341, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/home/phyks/.local/share/virtualenvs/6d39af90e64ae92/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1311, in _real_extract
    expected=True, video_id=video_id)
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: E5ndMUBoiRE: YouTube said: This video contains content from [Merlin] PIAS, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "youtube_playlists.py", line 109, in <module>
    result = ydl.extract_info(sys.argv[1], download=False)
  File "/home/phyks/.local/share/virtualenvs/6d39af90e64ae92/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 687, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/home/phyks/.local/share/virtualenvs/6d39af90e64ae92/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 848, in process_ie_result
    extra_info=extra)
  File "/home/phyks/.local/share/virtualenvs/6d39af90e64ae92/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 740, in process_ie_result
    extra_info=extra_info)
  File "/home/phyks/.local/share/virtualenvs/6d39af90e64ae92/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 691, in extract_info
    self.report_error(compat_str(e), e.format_traceback())
  File "/home/phyks/.local/share/virtualenvs/6d39af90e64ae92/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 550, in report_error
    self.trouble(error_message, tb)
  File "/home/phyks/.local/share/virtualenvs/6d39af90e64ae92/lib/python3.5/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 520, in trouble
    raise DownloadError(message, exc_info)
youtube_dl.utils.DownloadError: ERROR: E5ndMUBoiRE: YouTube said: This video contains content from [Merlin] PIAS, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

Usage is:

import youtube_dl

if __name__ == "__main__":
    with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
        result = ydl.extract_info(sys.argv[1], download=False)

When fetching infos from a single video file, I can easily workaround, but it seems I cannot do anything when such a video is inside a playlist.

Thanks

[dstftw]

This is expected behavior. Add 'ignoreerrors': True to ydl_opts.

[Phyks]

Ok, thanks. Is there some doc about embedding youtube-dl anywhere else than https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#embedding-youtube-dl or should one often refer to the source code?