[Bug]: Tubearchivist says all videos downloaded, but not every one is there

Author: emersonh93Created Sep 15, 2026Updated Sep 15, 2026
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I've read the documentation

  • I'm running the latest version of Tube Archivist and have read the release notes.
  • I'm beta testing and am running the latest unstable build.
  • I have read the how to open an issue guide, particularly the bug report section. I've double checked that I don't open a yt-dlp issue here.

Operating System

Linux

Your Bug Report

Describe the bug

I did a scan of all my subscriptions and then downloaded all of the videos in the queue. Also, after Rescan subscriptions, no new videos are added to the queue. Still, there are a bunch of videos from my subscriptions missing. (For some more than half)

Steps To Reproduce

  • Rescan subscriptions
  • Start download
  • Let it download
  • Rescan subscriptions -> Nothing there
  • Check channels -> Videos are missing

I was able to "fix" this for my tubearchivist instance by doing yt-dlp --flat-playlist --print id some_channel and then putting all of the ids into Add to download queue manually, but there should be a better way to do this I think.

Expected behavior

Tubearchivist realises at least on Rescan subscriptions that there are videos that are missing. Alternatively, I am not sure what approach Rescan subscriptions takes (if it only tried to scan from the date of the last scan or something), it could make sense to have another button that actually fully rescans the subscriptions.

Relevant log output

bash
I don't have the logs for when the downloads failed (some videos weren't downloaded).

Anything else?

No response

Source: tubearchivist/tubearchivist