Playlist With Hidden Video Causes Whole Playlist To Be Invalid

[nlogozzo]

I tried downloading the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5q1Ec01W9M&list=PL4082F63E4EE11B48

And I get the error

"ERROR: [youtube] KaVnA88oNTg: Private video. Sign in if you've been granted access to this video"

It turns out there is just 1 video unavailable in the playlist, but it causes TC to say the whole playlist is invalid.

Ideally, TC should just skip over that video.

[fsobolev]

Ideally, TC should just skip over that video.

And/or we can implement logging in.

[nlogozzo]

And/or we can implement logging in.

Well in the case of that playlist above ^ . It was a video that was hidden by the author or just not available in my country. Something logging in wouldn't fix.
But for videos that do require logging in, we can implement that...

[fsobolev]

Something logging in wouldn't fix.

Ah, yup, I didn't think about all scenarios.

Anyway, I played around in python and found a solution. When validating, we should set option ignoreerrors to true. In this case yt-dlp generates a valid dictionary for the playlist you provided. And in a situation of fatal error (like incorrect url), the resulting object will be None, so we are still able to determine whether validation was successful.

[nlogozzo]

Feel free to PR it :)

[nlogozzo]

https://github.com/nlogozzo/NickvisionTubeConverter/releases/tag/2023.3.1