Some downloaded video files contain plaintext: "406 Not Acceptable"

[dashrb]

I'm using the download_videos() call, without a delay= argument, so the default value of delay=1 should be in effect.
I invoke it via a cronjob, daily, and there are typically tens or hundreds of files to download.

Since the .mp4 file appears in my directory, rerunning the command results in no changes. I just happened to notice that some files in my download directory were only 20 bytes, a suspiciously small size for a video file. A cat command confirms the content of every such file is 406 Not Acceptable, clearly an HTTP error code inside the file itself.

I have been removing the 20-byte files with a rather crude rm -f $(ll | grep ' 20 Feb' | cut -c48-) command so that the next download command will retry those files. This works, mostly, but each time I seem to have a few new 20-byte error files.

My options appear to be to:

1. automate the detection and removal of these files, then re-invoke my cmdline application
2. Modify my application logic to use a larger delay= argument and hope for the best
3. Build logic into my cmdline application to find these files and retry the download immediately
4. Debug the api.http_get() call to see if there's some way to detect the HTTP status code out-of-band (i.e. not inside the file itself)
5. Post a discussion (this one!) and see if @fronzbot has any thoughts on this

What say ye!?

[fronzbot]

Blink stuff is so janky that if it were me, I'd opt for option 3. It would be nice to figure out what's actually going on, obviously, but this feels like one of those whack-a-mole issues that will never end because we're chasing down a Blink server problem lol