youtube-dl, how do I resume a download after error?

It’s good to use a combination of -ciw when downloading playlists.

-i, --ignore-errors    Continue on download errors, for example to skip
                       unavailable videos in a playlist
-w, --no-overwrites    Do not overwrite files
-c, --continue         Force resume of partially downloaded files.
                       By default, youtube-dl will resume downloads if possible.

The following example downloads top 100 songs on YouTube Music

youtube-dl -ciw --playlist-items 1-100 --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --restrict-filenames https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDcnymzs18LWrKzHmzrGH1JzLBqrHi3xQ

The actual link to Youtube Music playlist varies with time, I guess. You can go the the playlist and copy. One way to check whether a link refers to a playlist or a single video, is that the playlist link has “playlist” keyword in it.

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