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Youtube-DLG does not download playlist

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Bug report

If the problem occurs when downloading a URL please provide the full verbose output as follows:

  1. Restart youtube-dl-gui
  2. Go to Options > Extra tab
  3. Enable Debug youtube-dl
  4. Go to Options > Advanced tab and Clear your log content
  5. Try to download the URL
  6. Copy the whole log content and insert it between the ``` part below
[04/12/20 13:00:33] [debug] System config: []
[04/12/20 13:00:33] [debug] User config: []
[04/12/20 13:00:33] [debug] Custom config: []
[04/12/20 13:00:33] [debug] Command-line args: ['--newline', '--playlist-start', '2', '-R', '20', '-i', '-o', 'C:\\Users\\12745384\\%(title)s.%(ext)s', '-x', '--audio-format', 'mp3', '--audio-quality', '0', '-v', '--ignore-config', '--hls-prefer-native', 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=LLUw7I9FO85uTW8GSgK8DuRA']
[04/12/20 13:00:33] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp1252, pref cp1252
[04/12/20 13:00:33] [debug] youtube-dl version 2020.03.24
[04/12/20 13:00:33] [debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.18362
[04/12/20 13:00:33] [debug] exe versions: none
[04/12/20 13:00:33] [debug] Proxy map: {}
[04/12/20 13:00:33] ERROR: This playlist does not exist.
[04/12/20 13:00:33] Traceback (most recent call last):
[04/12/20 13:00:33]   File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpjwbwqymm\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 797, in extract_info
[04/12/20 13:00:33]   File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpjwbwqymm\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 530, in extract
[04/12/20 13:00:33]   File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpjwbwqymm\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 2762, in _real_extract
[04/12/20 13:00:33]   File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpjwbwqymm\build\youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.py", line 2685, in _extract_playlist
[04/12/20 13:00:33] youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: This playlist does not exist.
[04/12/20 13:00:33] 

What operating system do you use ?

Window 10 64 bit

List of actions to perform to reproduce the problem:

  1. Copy the link to my liked video playlist
  2. Click Add
  3. Pres download

What is the expected behaviour ?

Download all videos or mp3

What happens instead ?

Error. the log says The playlist does not exist

Issue Analytics

  • State:open
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Reactions:2
  • Comments:5

github_iconTop GitHub Comments

1reaction
ducman1611commented, Apr 12, 2020

I tried but I cannot make the Liked Videos playlist public

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axcorecommented, Apr 12, 2020

Make the list public, download the videos, then make the list private again.

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