Skip some errors, but not 429 Too Many Request errors?

I’m using youtube-dl to archive a few YouTube channels and playlists. Some of the playlists contain unavailable videos (e.g. deleted, made private, etc). I don’t want the download of the playlist to stop because of such an error.

However, I don’ t want to skip all errors, because doing so will skip 429 Too Many Requests. This is a rate limit put in place by YouTube. If I skip this error, Youtube-Dl can easily plow through 100 more videos hitting 429s right away, and in essence get my IP blocked for a long time.

Is there a way to specify skipping some errors, but not 429 too many requests?

Alternatively, can I ONLY skip video is unavailable, private, etc errors?

[danny-wu]

YouTube has updated something. I get 429s now on a known good configuration.

I think they’re detecting YouTube-dl somehow, but still only rate limiting at a certain threshold to not trip casual use and also make counterdetection harderbb

[sunxvogy]

I haven’t downloaded any videos with youtube-dl today from youtube, but as i wanted to start it now, it told me multiple times “HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests”, but in the Browser i’m not banned from YouTube, also YouTube App is working on my phone in my WLAN, so what is going on? (i even tried the “–force-ipv4” argument)

Edit: Seams my IP was blocked or whatever, after i reconnected mit router (and got a new ip) everything worked fine again. But if my IP would be blocked, then youtube shouldn’t work in the browser either? Hmm…

I assume it would be YouTube blocks “something” + IP. It doesn’t use the IP address only. Too strange.