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heisenberg

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Registered: 2017-05-27

Posts: 87

[SOLVED] youtube-dl unable to download playlists and ctrl-c "ignored"

Hi,

Today I tried this application to download a youtube playlist. Anyway, I tried to stop the process using CTRL+C and it just opens again and continues, until I close the terminal. Also, if I try to download a playlist, it stucks at the end of the first video. Anyone else has the same issues ?

Last edited by heisenberg (2017-08-30 12:08:54)

dockland

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Registered: 2015-06-06

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Re: [SOLVED] youtube-dl unable to download playlists and ctrl-c "ignored"

What command did you use for downloading the playlist(s)?

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heisenberg

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Registered: 2017-05-27

Posts: 87

Re: [SOLVED] youtube-dl unable to download playlists and ctrl-c "ignored"

What command did you use for downloading the playlist(s)?

youtube-dl "playlist_link", I tried also youtube-dl --yes-playlist "playlist_link" but same issue.

Now, I have no idea why but the issue I had it's gone, ctrl+c is working as well.

That's what was happening https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/12570.

I saw a difference, when I had the issue there was an output message with a PID, a few seconds later youtube-dl's output. Now it's not happening.

EDIT: I'd like to understand what was happening before mark it as SOLVED :\

Last edited by heisenberg (2017-08-30 11:37:30)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] youtube-dl unable to download playlists and ctrl-c "ignored"

As mentioned in that last few posts of the report  you linked to. Your playlist url likely contained an ampersand, which has a special meaning on terminals and will lead to the youtube-dl job being backgrounded (hence you can't simply kill it with ctrl-c because it isn't in the foreground) read the link provided by dstftw as the last post provided in that conversation.