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		beepboop43 on Dec 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who ... Good point on the playlists, it hadn't dawned on me that 'watch later' is a playlist. Haven't tried continue, in the past I've created a 'downloaded.txt' file which gets updated as files download and then checked before it runs again so it doesn't try to re-download them.

scrollaway on Dec 24, 2020 [–]

Yeah you don't need that downloaded.txt, youtube-dl can do that all on its own with the right flags :)

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