I had a script that downloaded 35 videos which was 1 out of the 251 courses but got rate limited. I'm not a coder and had to use AI to help with my script but I can't get any of them working now with the rate limiting protections. It looks like my tokens are changing for each video now and it wasn't doing that before. I estimate the total at 2.2TB (but I can easily re-encode it after download to about 300GB).

Does anyone with experience know how I can achieve this?

Trying to stay mildly vague about which website in a public post so they don't add further hindrances.

Basically I'm trying to download ~2.2TB (600hrs) of videos during a 7 day free trial which isn't mathematically possible with just one person while also not hitting rate limits. I've successfully downloaded 1 out of 251 courses before I realized my script wasn't accounting for rate limits. I have an updated one but I'm no programmer so I don't know how good it is.

If anyone is interested in helping with this, let me know. I already have all of the links that yt-dlp needs as well as the corresponding filenames and category folder names. The videos are overkill at ~8600kbps so they can be significantly reduced to ~1200kbps and still look great but I can easily do that and that comes after the hard part which is downloading.

Problem:

Scans take forever on my TV library with thousands of episodes.

Question:

Is there a way to manually trigger a partial scan of only what has changed?

What I've Tried:

Settings > "Settings": Library and check marked "Run a partial scan when changes are detected"

Why Isn't That Working?:

Does that only work for automatic scans such as "Scan my library automatically" or "Scan my library periodically"? If so, that's confusing and the option should be greyed out unless one of those criteria are met. If not, it doesn't seem to be working and I still don't know how to partially scan on a manual scan.

Related Question:

Is there any reason to checkmark "Scan my library periodically" if I already have "Scan my library automatically" checkmarked? If not, the periodically should be greyed out if automatically is checked to avoid confusion.