I ran yt-dlp to download the metadata for the entire SNL youtube channel, which is over 6,000 videos. I loaded the metadata into a database and built a Flask ap

I ran yt-dlp to download the metadata for the entire SNL youtube channel, which is over 6,000 videos. I loaded the metadata into a database and built a Flask app so I could browse one episode or season at a time in a convenient interface to flag which videos I wanted to download. The show has almost 50 seasons of history so the curation isn't trivial. After I spent a few hours browsing through the titles and descriptions, I used yt-dlp to download the videos I wanted. It came out to be over 500. I added them to my Plex server, made some playlists, and now I can watch sketches on demand without youtube tracking me, showing me ads, making me go through their app, search/browse interface, etc. And without having to search and skip through full episodes. I've been an SNL nerd for 30 years and while every episode has a range of good and bad content, what I do find rewatchable from its long history amounts to a pretty big library. I wanted to make it more easily accessible since there's a lot of good content that would otherwise get buried.