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Afrer reading the description, this project seems to be solely focused on downloading all of a specific channel's videos. I've been taking my first steps at ha

by j1elo 4y ago

Afrer reading the description, this project seems to be solely focused on downloading all of a specific channel's videos. I've been taking my first steps at having a home server, and one of the things I'd love to do with it is having an archive of the videos that I have saved in my private playlists on YouTube. In my mind, the service would periodically check all my playlists, compare with what exists locally, and download any missing video. Maybe even with a nice web UI so it's easier to visually configure and use. Does such a service already exist so I can self-host it?

aquova 4y ago
I haven't used it personally, but Tube Archivist might be what you're looking for. https://www.tubearchivist.com/ https://www.tubearchivist.com/
erinnh 4y ago
Look at tubearchivist. It can do what you want. You can subscribe to playlists, as well as automatically update and download videos.
Fang_ 4y ago
Nice web ui aside, if I'm not mistaken youtube-dl already supports this kind of usage. You can `youtube-dl --download-archive archive.txt https://youtu.be/your-playlist https://youtu.be/your-playlist` and it'll keep track in the archive.txt of everything it's already downloaded. Supplement with authentication options as necessary, set up a cronjob, done.
- itsyaboi 4y ago
  It's even simpler than that, just give youtube-dl the channel name and it will download all videos skipping any that already exists in your current directory.
_0ffh 4y ago
I think youtube-dl as well as yt-dlp can both download playlists. You can create a script to download all your playlist and make it a cron job. Videos that do already exist in the target folder will be skipped automatically.
mozman 4y ago
I was doing this for awhile but it became expensive - tens of TBs on an expensive NAS just to hoard data.
- romwell 4y ago
  FSM almighty, how much video are you watching to have that many favorite ones?
  - 0cf8612b2e1e 4y ago
    With the rise of cheap 4k cameras, it goes faster than you think. I download guitar training videos where a 25 minute tutorial can be 2-3gbs. I believe those are “only” 2k resolution. If you do not download them in a space conscious format or recompress (using mildly aggressive settings can drop them to 100mb), a handful of videos can quickly fill a hard drive.
    - romwell 4y ago
      Why wouldn't one download something like that in 720P video/196kbps audio? I mean, there's a time and a place for 4K, but watching the zits on the face of a guy who tells you how to play C Am F G on a guitar isn't it. Not to mention, most of those cheap 4K cameras won't have optics to utilize those pixels; no quality will be lost in 720p.
      - kristianp 4y ago
        That depends, if the source is bright enough, those little pixels will have enough signal to work effectively.
      - 0cf8612b2e1e 4y ago
        My downloader defaults to the highest quality, so unless I remember to specify a setting, I get gigabytes of video for something that could easily be 480 quality. In the event I forget, I reencode with ffmpeg.
404mm 4y ago
Ignore youtube-dl, it has speed issues. Use the fork yt-dlp. If you want gui, check out TubeSync. Web UI for yt-dlp , ffmpeg and nicely packaged in docker
Owez 4y ago
Yark will be able to do this in v1.3 releasing in ~1 month provided it has access to the playlists, I'm not sure how to do creds currently but I'll look into it. Issue for downloading playlists: https://github.com/Owez/yark/issues/49 https://github.com/Owez/yark/issues/49
- iLoveOncall 4y ago
  > I'm not sure how to do creds currently but I'll look into it Welcome to the nightmarish world of authentication to Google products, which all have 4 different versions of documentation and not a single one up to date.
- j1elo 4y ago
  That's great to know! For auth it seems the preferred way to login with Google is OAuth2, that's I believe what third-party apps use, e.g. Thunderbird uses it when setting up a new GMail account. However, for apps that don't support OAuth2, there is also the possibility of using "App Passwords" [1], I've used one in the past and it worked well. (Update: I'm just reading it only works if 2FA is enabled, which I use) [1]: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en
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shrike 4y ago
This is how I accomplish basically the same thing - https://gist.github.com/Gestas/30ac0c3a07404174d0d7b66068221c88 https://gist.github.com/Gestas/30ac0c3a07404174d0d7b66068221.... It requires a local file with a list of channels/playlists. I use Jellyfin (https://jellyfin.org/ https://jellyfin.org/) as the frontend/video player.

by j1elo 4y ago

aquova 4y ago

I haven't used it personally, but Tube Archivist might be what you're looking for. https://www.tubearchivist.com/ https://www.tubearchivist.com/

erinnh 4y ago

Look at tubearchivist. It can do what you want. You can subscribe to playlists, as well as automatically update and download videos.

Fang_ 4y ago

Nice web ui aside, if I'm not mistaken youtube-dl already supports this kind of usage. You can `youtube-dl --download-archive archive.txt https://youtu.be/your-playlist https://youtu.be/your-playlist` and it'll keep track in the archive.txt of everything it's already downloaded. Supplement with authentication options as necessary, set up a cronjob, done.

itsyaboi 4y ago
It's even simpler than that, just give youtube-dl the channel name and it will download all videos skipping any that already exists in your current directory.

_0ffh 4y ago

I think youtube-dl as well as yt-dlp can both download playlists. You can create a script to download all your playlist and make it a cron job. Videos that do already exist in the target folder will be skipped automatically.

mozman 4y ago

I was doing this for awhile but it became expensive - tens of TBs on an expensive NAS just to hoard data.

romwell 4y ago
FSM almighty, how much video are you watching to have that many favorite ones?
- 0cf8612b2e1e 4y ago
  With the rise of cheap 4k cameras, it goes faster than you think. I download guitar training videos where a 25 minute tutorial can be 2-3gbs. I believe those are “only” 2k resolution. If you do not download them in a space conscious format or recompress (using mildly aggressive settings can drop them to 100mb), a handful of videos can quickly fill a hard drive.
  - romwell 4y ago
    Why wouldn't one download something like that in 720P video/196kbps audio? I mean, there's a time and a place for 4K, but watching the zits on the face of a guy who tells you how to play C Am F G on a guitar isn't it. Not to mention, most of those cheap 4K cameras won't have optics to utilize those pixels; no quality will be lost in 720p.
    - kristianp 4y ago
      That depends, if the source is bright enough, those little pixels will have enough signal to work effectively.
    - 0cf8612b2e1e 4y ago
      My downloader defaults to the highest quality, so unless I remember to specify a setting, I get gigabytes of video for something that could easily be 480 quality. In the event I forget, I reencode with ffmpeg.

404mm 4y ago

Ignore youtube-dl, it has speed issues. Use the fork yt-dlp. If you want gui, check out TubeSync. Web UI for yt-dlp , ffmpeg and nicely packaged in docker

Owez 4y ago

Yark will be able to do this in v1.3 releasing in ~1 month provided it has access to the playlists, I'm not sure how to do creds currently but I'll look into it. Issue for downloading playlists: https://github.com/Owez/yark/issues/49 https://github.com/Owez/yark/issues/49

iLoveOncall 4y ago
> I'm not sure how to do creds currently but I'll look into it Welcome to the nightmarish world of authentication to Google products, which all have 4 different versions of documentation and not a single one up to date.
j1elo 4y ago
That's great to know! For auth it seems the preferred way to login with Google is OAuth2, that's I believe what third-party apps use, e.g. Thunderbird uses it when setting up a new GMail account. However, for apps that don't support OAuth2, there is also the possibility of using "App Passwords" [1], I've used one in the past and it worked well. (Update: I'm just reading it only works if 2FA is enabled, which I use) [1]: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en

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shrike 4y ago

This is how I accomplish basically the same thing - https://gist.github.com/Gestas/30ac0c3a07404174d0d7b66068221c88 https://gist.github.com/Gestas/30ac0c3a07404174d0d7b66068221.... It requires a local file with a list of channels/playlists. I use Jellyfin (https://jellyfin.org/ https://jellyfin.org/) as the frontend/video player.