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GhostArchive sometimes has false alarms when archival failed
Example video ID: zY57Aw4ik3w
Maybe use the BeautifulSoup library to see if Heading 1 contains Archiving error
then print Not Available
.
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.
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.