youtube-dl: ERROR: This video is not available... Which video?

command-line video youtube youtube-dl

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The flag you want is -i for --ignore-errors.

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leetbacoon

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Updated on September 18, 2022

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leetbacoon over 1 year
When using youtube-dl version 2019.07.16, if I run the following command:
```
$ youtube-dl --get-id https://youtube.com/user/youtube_channel
```
I will sometimes get an output like this example:
```
dIJxA-_1MVM
gE3xeJC_G_L
ITll8zhfvwk
ERROR: This video is not available.
dQw4w9WgXcQ
```
This will happen if the user or YouTube removes the video in question. The only issue is, this does not say which video this message is referring to.

Am I just missing one of youtube-dl's many flags?
- dessert almost 5 years
  
  Is it possible this refers to the video ID listed directly before or afterwards? Could you provide a channel URL for testing?
- BJsgoodlife almost 5 years
  
  Are you trying to look up a channel with the program or a specific video? If a video, I can help you.
- leetbacoon almost 5 years
  
  @dessert Using https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCothzhiulmMsaF5rQp5XLgQ under a USA VPN shows me this output: pastebin.com/raw/8b83a3e2 and every ID listed is valid. It does not show the errored ID anywhere.
- leetbacoon almost 5 years
  
  @BJsgoodlife It is a channel, but even running a completely random and invalid URL gives the same output. Here's an example: pastebin.com/raw/PC63nkK1 I also included a video URL that was a real video at one time until the uploader removed it.
- BJsgoodlife almost 5 years
  
  Hi leetbacoon- I tested your link and you are correct, it's unavailable for me to. It looks like a possible bug, check out this website. github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/15417.
- leetbacoon almost 5 years
  
  @BJsgoodlife Hi, the missing video is normal. I was looking to see if youtube-dl would print out which video id is the problematic one. Either way I had a friend of mine submit a suggestion on youtube-dl github. Thank you
- dessert almost 5 years
  
  Please add new information directly to your question (edit), do not use comments.
- BJsgoodlife almost 5 years
  
  @leetbacoon- I am sorry I thought I could answer your question but I don't know why it's not working, I apologize.
- leetbacoon almost 5 years
  
  @BJsgoodlife No need to apologize :) I appreciate your help. I don't think youtube-dl supports this feature natively. Hopefully this can be added in the future.
leetbacoon over 4 years

Well, not quite. --ignore-errors allows youtube-dl to continue grabbing video IDs even after it finds a dead link, has trouble connecting, has disk write issues, etc. I'm trying to find the video id (https⁣://www.youtube.com/watch?v= leTpySlsl50 ) of the video that gives the error