How to tell which video failed to download from a youtube playlist using youtube-dl

Question

I've been using youtube-dl for a while now to batch download playlists.

Sometimes, youtube-dl begins to run, and prints a message like "getting 200 video id's, downloading 199 of them" - or something like that.

1 video is missing (199 of 200 successful). Is there any way to find out which one(s) failed?

Answer 1

The numbers in the output are a result of --playlist-start and --playlist-end. If you're passing in neither option, then the output should always be 200 of 200. If you're passing them in, check the values. Pass in 1 for playliststart and None (or -1 in older versions) for playlistend to get the whole list.

If that does not solve your problem, then post the entire output, then create an issue in the youtube-dl issuetracker. Please include the entire output of a problematic download, and pass in the --verbose option to youtube-dl. This allows the developers to find where your problem is.