privat videos

[khk58]

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Dear all,
first I beg pardon for my poor english.
On downloading playlists
(yt-dlp --ignore-errors --cookies-from-browser firefox --download-archive ..\archive.txt -i --geo-bypass -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE8Tj3_cWP6inKzBHVkjOVfyctP86y50a)
I get the following message
'[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65sbzMV7Bjs
[youtube] 65sbzMV7Bjs: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 65sbzMV7Bjs: Downloading android player API JSON
ERROR: [youtube] 65sbzMV7Bjs: Private video. Sign in if you've been granted access to this video'

My questions are:

1. How to get in contact with the people putting these videos to 'Youtube' ?

or

2. How to skip downloading these videos ?

Kind regards and thanx in advance

Kurt (Austria) - [email protected]

Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem

• Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (yt-dlp -vU <your command line>)
• If using API, add 'verbose': True to YoutubeDL params instead
• Copy the WHOLE output (starting with [debug] Command-line config) and insert it below

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[Feathered-Serpent]

1. in your case I would say it's going to the Youtube channel from the playlist and check the info there and hope for a contact address:
   https://www.youtube.com/@wocomoLIVING/about

2. It does so automatically, it just continues with the next video.

[khk58]

How to skip downloading these videos ? My question in this point is, how to skip without trying to download

[Feathered-Serpent]

I don't think yt-dlp can know it's private before trying to download it. Why do these 2 seconds matter?

[khk58]

Because in playlists are often lots of privat videos.

[pukkandan]

don't think yt-dlp can know it's private before trying to download it

[deanrobin333]

I found a solution. Indeed you use 'ignoreerrors': True. and you can pass this directly to YoutubeDl.

with YoutubeDL(
        {'quiet': True, "logger": CustomLogger(), 'ignoreerrors': True}
    ) as temp:
    info_temp = temp.extract_info(link, download=False)

• The other options I have used are up to you.

• quiet - just hides the details on the console.

• CustomLogger() is a custom logger i have implemented so that it doesn't print the log on the console but to a file.

• download=False is so that it doesn't download immediately. I have implemented the download elsewhere. My script can download and as well just get information about a video or playlist without downloading it.

• when we use YoutubeDl we are creating a yt_dlp.YoutubeDL.YoutubeDL object which then can be used to get various details from youtube links. so temp then is that object.

what is important is ignoreerror. YoutubeDl is right where the program starts. so we usually have a dictionary called yt_opts where we specify key-value pairs that will be passed to YoutubeDL. so you can pass them directly.

or better yet you can indeed create this yt_opts dictionary. so we would do:

link = "https://youtu.be/SaC8X-IHGiU?si=rkAN-ICgDk-7b2Em"
yt_opts({'ignoreerrors: True})

with YoutubeDL(yt_opts) as temp:
    info_temp = temp.extractinfo(link, download=False)
    # do more with info_temp eg `info_temp.get('title')` etc

[maaaaz]

cf. #9810