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| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py index c3ae33009..67845349e 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py @@ -1436,6 +1436,13 @@ class YoutubePlaylistIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor): page = self._download_webpage(url, playlist_id) more_widget_html = content_html = page + # Check if the playlist exists or is private + if re.search(r'<div class="yt-alert-message">[^<]*?The playlist does not exist[^<]*?</div>', page) is not None: + raise ExtractorError( + u'The playlist doesn\'t exist or is private, use --username or ' + '--netrc to access it.', + expected=True) + # Extract the video ids from the playlist pages ids = [] |