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Add an option to use youtube-dl --download-archive

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Feature Request

Checklist

[•] I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar feature requests including closed ones.
[•] I will add the enhancement label to the issue.

Description

Add an option to use

youtube-dl --download-archive

From the manpage

Download only videos not listed in the archive file. Record the IDs of all downloaded videos in it.

It will be especially useful for people with large playlists.

Issue Analytics

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:7 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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Diridibindycommented, Jun 10, 2021

Sorry about the miscommunication on my part. That is indeed how I meant it should work. If that works on your part then you can consider the issue closed. I can’t really test it myself right now

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Diridibindycommented, May 28, 2021

@Roman-Os I am not exactly familiar with that flag but does it work like a skip list?

So basically the user will pass a list with a few videoID's and while downloading a playlist if a videoId is on that list, that song is supposed to be skipped?

Exactly. It isn’t the best solution for checking whether the song is already downloaded, but it is good enough.