yt-dlp: YouTube videos with lots of comments seem impossible to download, keep failing while downloading comments
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Question
Trying to download videos with comments is very failure prone: why is that? I thought adding --cookies cookies.txt
and especially --sleep-requests 1
would prevent them from erroring out but it still happens. Thus, videos with 20k+ comments seem impossible to download. Especially annoying with --sleep-requests 1
because it will take over 10 minutes for it to download the first 5k or so comments, only to fail anyway.
It doesn’t even matter how many comments a vid has, even some vids with 800 comments will fail at like 200 or 600. What can I do to prevent these from erroring out?
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- State: closed
- Created 3 years ago
- Comments: 24 (10 by maintainers)
Use
--skip-download
Just run these seperately:
youtube-dl nowadays downloads whatever youtube page the link points to. So if you point it to the channels home page, it will download all the videos in the home page and not the channel’s uploaded videos. The workaround is to give link to the videos page like this:
https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown/videos
. yt-dlp on the other hand, automatically redirects the home page to the videos page since that is the expected behaviour by most users.This is a recent thing. There is already an issue open in youtube-dl. Currently the only known workaround is to use a multi-connection downloader like
aria2c
Specs don’t matter. The only thing that matters is the internet’s stability
I am closing this since I believe all the questions have been answered