I am using youtube-dl for downloading the videos from YouTube. But in my office the internet will disconnect every 20Mb of download. [Error: Connection forcibly closed by remote server].
I have to type the URL again to resume the download and again it will disconnect after '20Mb' I want youtube-dl to reconnect and retry to download the file.
I tried using --retries switch but it is not retrying once disconnected.
Is there any inbuild method or Work around for this?
2 Answers
Answers 1
DISCLAIMER - HAVE NOT VERIFIED THIS SOLUTION
My best guess would be to specify a cache directory, and use the -c flag to force it to continue downloads if possible.
Source: youtube-dl man page
--cache-dir DIR Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl can store some downloaded information permanently. By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME /youtube-dl or ~/.cache/youtube-dl . At the moment, only YouTube player files (for videos with obfus‐ cated signatures) are cached, but that may change. -c, --continue Force resume of partially downloaded files. By default, youtube-dl will resume downloads if possible. Answers 2
Get a bash , either via steve's win-bash, the new windows10/Ubuntu thing or cygwin
Call youtube-dl like this:
while ! youtube-dl <video_uri> -c --socket-timeout 5; do echo DISCONNECTED; done You may want to add some sleep time between retries.
while ! youtube-dl <video_uri> -c --socket-timeout 5; do echo DISCONNECTED; sleep 5; done There should be a power shell equivalent, or an ugly batch while loop checking ERRORLEVEL
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