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GhostArchive sometimes has false alarms when archival failed

Open TheTechRobo opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Example video ID: zY57Aw4ik3w

TheTechRobo avatar Oct 30 '23 00:10 TheTechRobo

Maybe use the BeautifulSoup library to see if Heading 1 contains Archiving error then print Not Available.

JaxonPlays avatar Dec 30 '23 10:12 JaxonPlays

That is possible, but might be CPU-intensive. Perhaps it could be done just by doing a search of the HTML rather than trying to parse it. I also notice that there is

This bug also occurs when archival is stuck. I've seen videos where archival never finishes, it never switches from the "Archiving..." page.

TheTechRobo avatar Dec 30 '23 16:12 TheTechRobo

This seems to have been fixed by GhostArchive. I now see a 500 error on my test case, not sure if that is the case for all failed videos. But I am adding a basic assertion just to make sure.

TheTechRobo avatar Sep 22 '24 13:09 TheTechRobo