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[Question] --no-download-archive --no-mark-watched when printing video information

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I can’t print information about the video if it is in the archive. For example: yt-dlp --print id --playlist-end 1 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=WL prints an empty line if the first video is in the archive I have to add the parameter “–no-download-archive”. I also need to add the "–no-mark-watched " parameter so that the video is not marked as viewed if the parameter is in the configuration file. Can you fix it?

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Created 2 years ago
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pukkandancommented, Sep 26, 2021

I will update the docs to make this clearer

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pukkandancommented, Sep 26, 2021

Marking as watched is part of the extraction process. It doesn’t matter if you downloaded it or not. It could be argued that it should work like download-archive, but this is how youtube-dl handles this, and the hassle of changing this is not worth it since you can just use --no-mark-watched when simulating