From ebf0c0f61e3e578db26b45eb24d643f1a64bf17f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bashonly <88596187+bashonly@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:23:20 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] [ie/soundcloud] Improve error handling (#16602)

Closes #16603
Authored by: bashonly
---
 yt_dlp/extractor/soundcloud.py | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/soundcloud.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/soundcloud.py
index 620c761dd3..bcb8c0f463 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/soundcloud.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/soundcloud.py
@@ -321,9 +321,16 @@ class SoundcloudBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
                 continue
 
             # XXX: if not extract_flat, 429 error must be caught where _extract_info_dict is called
-            stream_url = traverse_obj(self._call_api(
-                format_url, track_id, f'Downloading {short_identifier} format info JSON',
-                query=query, headers=self._HEADERS), ('url', {url_or_none}))
+            try:
+                stream_url = traverse_obj(self._call_api(
+                    format_url, track_id, f'Downloading {short_identifier} format info JSON',
+                    query=query, headers=self._HEADERS), ('url', {url_or_none}))
+            except ExtractorError as e:
+                if isinstance(e.cause, HTTPError) and e.cause.status == 404:
+                    self.report_warning(f'{short_identifier} format not found', video_id=track_id)
+                    continue
+                raise
+
             if invalid_url(stream_url):
                 continue
             format_urls.add(stream_url)