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The following command works for me (meaning it returns JSON data for the video):

yt-dlp.exe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C0ZtmBlL-s --skip-download --dump-single-json --no-check-certificate --restrict-filenames

However, the same command but for a video which has yet to "premiere" (it's in "upcoming" mode) does not return any JSON data! It outputs null and error-logs an English text saying: "Premieres in 3 hours", which is useless to me:

yt-dlp.exe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNWB7wu9hjE --skip-download --dump-single-json --no-check-certificate --restrict-filenames

I need to be able to see the timestamp when it premieres, before it premieres, in order to automatically insert a reminder for myself. This information is available on the YouTube webpage, so the information does exist: "isUpcoming":true and "scheduledStartTime"

Furthermore, yt-dlp literally has a live_status property in the JSON output, which can be is_upcoming, according to its manual, so it makes no sense that my command doesn't return anything when the video is "upcoming". The data is available, and yt-dlp seemingly supports it. So why is the output null when the video is in "upcoming" state?

PS: Depending on when you read this, the video in the second link may no longer be "upcoming". It's upcoming for 32 minutes more at the time of publishing this.

Satvik Kelsey
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You need to add --ignore-no-formats-error to the command as that's the error that's thrown if no video format can be downloaded.

For example:

yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG0m71ilPuY --skip-download --dump-single-json --no-check-certificate --restrict-filenames --ignore-no-formats-error

See documentation

Destroy666
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