Infinite loop when a video is deleted during download

[baesik]

The Problem:
If the person is livestreaming and deletes it while the script is still downloading or finishing up, the script gets stuck in a permanent loop.

What happens:

• It keeps trying to find the video even though it's gone.
• It displays "Video unavailable" and then immediately restarts the search.
• I cannot stop the process with Ctrl+C. I have to force-close the terminal window to make it stop.
• It never finishes merging the parts it already downloaded.

Error messages seen in the loop:

[INFO] [**********] 2026-02-25 21:39:58 - Starting download of live fragments (140-2 - medium, WEB-S (ended))
**********: Audio: 153/2573 (Recording) ~3.52 MB downloaded[INFO] [**********] 2026-02-25 21:40:05 - Starting download of live fragments (399-2 - 1080p, WEB-S (ended))
**********: Video: 407/2573 (Recording) Audio: 1574/2573 (Recording) ~264.58 MB downloaded[WARNING] [**********] 2026-02-25 21:41:03 - (399-2) Unexpected error downloading segment 2574 file after 5 attempts peer closed connection without sending complete message body (incomplete chunked read)
**********: Video: 855/2573 (Recording) Audio: 2571/2573 (Recording) ~406.71 MB downloaded[WARNING] [**********] 2026-02-25 21:41:52 - (399-2) Unexpected error downloading segment 2574 file after 5 attempts peer closed connection without sending complete message body (incomplete chunked read)
**********: Video: 1488/2573 (Recording) Audio: 2571/2573 (Recording) ~560.72 MB downloaded[WARNING] [**********] 2026-02-25 21:42:42 - (399-2) Unexpected error downloading segment 2574 file after 5 attempts peer closed connection without sending complete message body (incomplete chunked read)
**********: Video: 1799/2573 (Recording) Audio: 2571/2573 (Recording) ~714.77 MB downloaded[INFO] [**********] 2026-02-25 21:43:16 - Starting background URL refresh for 140-2
[...]
**********: Video: 2569/2573 (Merged) Audio: 2571/2573 (Recording) ~944.48 MB downloaded[youtube] **********: Downloading tv downgraded player API JSON
[youtube] **********: Downloading web safari player API JSON
WARNING: [youtube] Video unavailable. This video has been removed by the uploader
WARNING: Video should already be available according to extracted info
[wait] Waiting for 00:00:00 - Press Ctrl+C to try now
[wait] Wait period ended; Re-extracting data
[youtube] Extracting URL: **********
[youtube] **********: Downloading webpage
[youtube] **********: Downloading tv downgraded player API JSON
[youtube] **********: Downloading web safari player API JSON
WARNING: [youtube] Video unavailable. This video has been removed by the uploader
WARNING: Video should already be available according to extracted info
[wait] Waiting for 00:00:00 - Press Ctrl+C to try now

Maybe a flag that tries to merge the remaining fragments into the final file, even if the stream is no longer available?

[CanOfSocks]

Hopefully fixed in a0d4ac1

[baesik]

Unfortunately, still there. The interrupt signal is sent, but another occurs. This time the video was set to private instead of removed by the uploader.

[wait] Waiting for 00:00:00 - Press Ctrl+C to try now
[wait] Wait period ended; Re-extracting data
[youtube] Extracting URL: **********
[youtube] **********: Downloading webpage
[youtube] **********: Downloading tv downgraded player API JSON
[youtube] **********: Downloading web safari player API JSON
WARNING: [youtube] Video unavailable. This video is private
WARNING: Video should already be available according to extracted info
[wait] Waiting for 00:00:00 - Press Ctrl+C to try now
[wait] Wait period ended; Re-extracting data
[youtube] Extracting URL: **********
[youtube] **********: Downloading webpage
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\dev\livestream_dl\runner.py", line 381, in <module>
    main(id=id, resolution=resolution, options=options)
  File "C:\dev\livestream_dl\runner.py", line 133, in main
    downloader.download_segments(info_dict=info_dict, resolution=resolution, options=options, thread_event=thread_kill)
  File "C:\dev\livestream_dl\download_Live.py", line 390, in download_segments
    done, not_done = concurrent.futures.wait(futures, timeout=1, return_when=concurrent.futures.FIRST_COMPLETED)
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\**********\cpython-3.12.12-windows-x86_64-none\Lib\concurrent\futures\_base.py", line 305, in wait
    waiter.event.wait(timeout)
  File "C:\**********\cpython-3.12.12-windows-x86_64-none\Lib\threading.py", line 655, in wait
    signaled = self._cond.wait(timeout)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\**********\cpython-3.12.12-windows-x86_64-none\Lib\threading.py", line 359, in wait
    gotit = waiter.acquire(True, timeout)
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\dev\livestream_dl\runner.py", line 27, in handle_shutdown
    sleep(0.5)
  File "C:\dev\livestream_dl\runner.py", line 27, in handle_shutdown
    sleep(0.5)
  File "C:\dev\livestream_dl\runner.py", line 27, in handle_shutdown
    sleep(0.5)
  [Previous line repeated 34 more times]
  File "C:\dev\livestream_dl\runner.py", line 29, in handle_shutdown
    original_sigint(signum, frame)
KeyboardInterrupt
^C

[CanOfSocks]

Issue was caused by accidentally commenting out the custom yt-dlp logger that controls most of these scenarios. This should be fixed in 5833746 and release 5833746

[waterforl]

Hi, is there a way to recover the video from the segments that were already downloaded before the video turned private? I just force closed the terminal and was left with some temp files. I cloned the latest repo and tried to use the --force-recover-merge option but it just throws the private video error

[CanOfSocks]

I am (slowly) working on a utility script that can create the video files. CanOfSocks/holo-downloader#10