Skip option when "video not available" is in a playlist

[03stevensmi]

I have a bunch of playlists to search through...
but some of the videos are no longer available.

Instead of subtubular stopping and failing at that video,
Could we get a --skip-novideo or a --skip-error option so the seach can resume?

This is the error I get:
Errors searching in Kemy (Full Episodes)
Video 'JCgwsd92c60' is not available.

The command ran into input errors:
Video 'JCgwsd92c60' is not available.

@h0lg Would this be possible?

[h0lg]

Hey @03stevensmi ,

I looked into how SubTubular handles VideoUnavailableExceptions and PlaylistUnavailableExceptions and would, instead of adding options to skip them, rather suggest changing the default behavior to stop treating them as input errors - which have the effect of canceling parallel searches on other scopes.

Looking into how YoutubeExplode throws and handles them, I get the impression that these errors do not necessarily mean the video or playlist in question doesn't exist - but that it is temporarily unavailable. In fact, Video 'JCgwsd92c60' from your example loads fine for me - and I would wager, for you as well if you retry. So this is just to say my research confirms my conclusions in #11 about this being a transient error.

That means treating them as input errors is incorrect, which is why I suggest correcting the handling instead of adding new options to work around it.

I'll also change the output of the Shell.exe to list search results and errors separately - search results first, errors per search scope after that.

This will have the effect that

• the searches on other scopes are not canceled if one runs into a video/playlist unavailable error and keep outputting results
• videos in the same scope that ran into a video unavailable error will keep producing results for other videos like before
• you'll get an error summary about unavailable videos and other errors at the end, after the merged search results.

Did I understand your problem and would that behavior change solve your problem?

[03stevensmi]

Hey @03stevensmi ,

I looked into how SubTubular handles VideoUnavailableExceptions and PlaylistUnavailableExceptions and would, instead of adding options to skip them, rather suggest changing the default behavior to stop treating them as input errors - which have the effect of canceling parallel searches on other scopes.

Looking into how YoutubeExplode throws and handles them, I get the impression that these errors do not necessarily mean the video or playlist in question doesn't exist - but that it is temporarily unavailable. In fact, Video 'JCgwsd92c60' from your example loads fine for me - and I would wager, for you as well if you retry. So this is just to say my research confirms my conclusions in #11 about this being a transient error.

That means treating them as input errors is incorrect, which is why I suggest correcting the handling instead of adding new options to work around it.

I'll also change the output of the Shell.exe to list search results and errors separately - search results first, errors per search scope after that.

This will have the effect that

• the searches on other scopes are not canceled if one runs into a video/playlist unavailable error and keep outputting results
• videos in the same scope that ran into a video unavailable error will keep producing results for other videos like before
• you'll get an error summary about unavailable videos and other errors at the end, after the merged search results.

Did I understand your problem and would that behavior change solve your problem?

sorry for the late reply... i have been at my parents house for the last couple of weeks...
@h0lg yes that will 100% be a great solution, you have completely understood my issue.

thank you!
:)