youtube-dl: How to skip videos with unavailable fragments in playlist, but not to abort playlist downloading?

Question

I want to download a playlist of videos from youtube using youtube-dl for further offline viewing. Some videos have unavailable fragments (but for some reason there is no problem when viewing through browser). I want to download the playlist, but skip the videos with missing fragments.

My original run was:

youtube-dl -if bestvideo+bestaudio PLEsfXFp6DpzTD1BD1aWNxS2Ep06vIkaeW

But it "freezes" at videos with missed fragments.

Later, in documentation I found this option option --abort-on-unavailable-fragment

But following command just aborts, when it takes 10 retries for attempt to download fragment.

youtube-dl --abort-on-unavailable-fragment -if bestvideo+bestaudio PLEsfXFp6DpzTD1BD1aWNxS2Ep06vIkaeW

I also found parameter --skip-unavailable-fragments, but it just skips fragments, which are unavailable and continue to download next fragment. It results in glitches in video after merging.

youtube-dl --skip-unavailable-fragments -if bestvideo+bestaudio PLEsfXFp6DpzTD1BD1aWNxS2Ep06vIkaeW

Are there any options / parameters to download the whole playlist, but as soon as there is video with missed fragment: skip that video and switch to the next video in playlist?

score 11 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 03 '20 at 10:57

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-i, --ignore-errors

This one works fine for me.

answered Sep 03 '20 at 10:57

harveyhans

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 22 '19 at 23:01

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--abort-on-unavailable-fragment  Abort downloading when some fragment is not
                                 available

This will skip the video if it has unavailable fragments, taken from the readme: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#download-options tested on the same issue.

answered Jul 22 '19 at 23:01

stackbox

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It aborts the download of the whole playlist, not a single video from the playlist. Tested today. – Araneus0390 Jul 23 '19 at 00:05
Are you on newest yt-dl? I posted it after having it fixed with that flag myself. In stdout I can see it attempting to download one that has 404 fragments and then aborts that one specific item only, continuing to download all the others in the playlist. – stackbox Jul 24 '19 at 02:22
Works now. I don't know, what changed, but it works now. – Araneus0390 Jul 24 '19 at 23:32
that's for fragments not videos – harveyhans Sep 03 '20 at 11:00
@Harvey - have you read the OP, the title, the comments or tried it before posting this? – stackbox Sep 04 '20 at 14:00
@stackbox yup i did all that – harveyhans Sep 05 '20 at 20:45
Just tried it again and it still works today (06.09.2020) on latest build (v2020.09.06) - skipping only the video that has missing fragments, downloading the rest. – stackbox Sep 06 '20 at 18:56

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 13 '20 at 06:03

I tried the above mentioned answer but it aborts the whole playlist. I tried using -i which ignores all the errors and skips if the video is unavailable in your country. And this method works without any problems.

youtube-dl -i -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx65qkgCWNJIs3FPaj8JZhduXSpQ_ZfvL'

use --extract-audio if you want only audio
use --audio-format mp3 if you want to specify the audio format

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 14 '21 at 04:26

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Update in 2021:

You can use

--abort-on-unavailable-fragment  --ignore-errors

In this way if a video have a fragment unavaible it will skip to the next whiout aborting, ignoring the abort.

answered Jun 14 '21 at 04:26

CodeSugar

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youtube-dl: How to skip videos with unavailable fragments in playlist, but not to abort playlist downloading?

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