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"Did not get any data blocks" kills the entire list download. #23041

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vinaykapadia opened this issue Nov 10, 2019 · 2 comments
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"Did not get any data blocks" kills the entire list download. #23041

vinaykapadia opened this issue Nov 10, 2019 · 2 comments

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@vinaykapadia
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vinaykapadia commented Nov 10, 2019

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  • I'm reporting a broken site support issue
  • I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.11.05
  • I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
  • I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
  • I've searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
  • I've read bugs section in FAQ

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I've searched and found people talking about the "did not get any data blocks" error. Says it's something to do with Youtube's CDN not having that format and to try a different format. That's great, I'll do that. But my problem is that reaching this error kills the entire playlist download. I'm trying to download a Youtube playlist of 120 videos. It gets the first 23 fine, then hits the error on video 24. But then it doesn't continue with video 25, the whole thing just dies and no more videos are downloaded.

Workaround is to add "--playlist-start 25" to the command. But then when the error happens again on video 49, it dies again. It's really annoying having to restart the list every time this error pops up.

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dstftw commented Nov 10, 2019

-i, --ignore-errors              Continue on download errors, for example to
                                 skip unavailable videos in a playlist

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Ah, that worked great! I feel this should be default behavior but oh well, as long as there's an option. I'll just add it to my config. Thanks!

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