Youtube-dl Playlists Downloading Stops Running “Finished downloading playlist: playlist” error [closed]

Question

I was happily downloading channels playlists but out of the blue youtube-dl detects any channel playlists as fully downloaded. I can download videos and playlists but no channels playlists.

Desired behavior: youtube-dl downloading all playlists of a choosen channel.

Specific problem or error: youtube-dl detects all playlists as already downloaded and it downloads 0 videos.

Code necessary to reproduce de problem:

youtube-dl -i https://www.youtube.com/c/MentalOutlaw/playlists

Result:

[youtube:playlists] MentalOutlaw: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: Mental Outlaw
[youtube:playlists] playlist Mental Outlaw: Downloading 0 videos
[download] Finished downloading playlist: Mental Outlaw

I've tried removing yt-dl and reinstalling from another repo. Restarting computer. Tried different directories and different channels. Thing is I did it before but all of a sudden it stops doing it.

OSPop!_OS 20.04 LTS

youtube-dl version 2020.09.20

Graniela

Answer 1

Issue is fixed in the latest release 2020.11.18. (Related Issue: #26952)

pypi has the latest version pip install youtube_dl

Crossfertilize

Note: I couldn't see the updated version in Apt Repository yet. – Crossfertilize

Answer 2

I had also received this message while downloading videos from private playlist (it gets updated few times a month, and I have the same script that worked for a long time), these steps helped(do not use apt as it can receive updated later than pip version):

pip3 install youtube-dl --upgrade

To install the latest version of youtube-dl, then I updated my cookies file, because they had expired

Gerge

Answer 3

I took a look at the python source, updated on GitLab. There is an extractor for each supported platform. One of them youtube.py has a class called YoutubePlaylistIE (YoutubePlaylistBaseInfoExtractor), I didn’t have time to look more deeply into the process of downloading the playlist, but whoever can already know a way.

https://gitlab.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/-/blob/master/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py

Caseation

The yt-dl repository has returned, but they have not yet been able to analyze which functions will be discontinued. github.blog/… – Caseation

Answer 4

it looks like this is a new issue caused due to Google changing stuff on youtube and has not been updated by ytdl yet. Look in to the following github issue for more info. Your best bet right now is to download each playlist separately unfortunately (:

P.S. Maybe try downgrading your youtube-dl to a lower version and it might work, i don't think it will though.

Kilmer

I'm also having this issue and I tried random versions as far back as 2017.1.2 and it still didn't work. – Caenogenesis

I'm also getting the same issue, with v2020.03.24 on Ubuntu 20.04.1 – Crossfertilize