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Does it save the video thumbnail as well? Video description? Comments? Channel name? Channel avatar? etc Currently I use yt-dlp to manually download individual

Does it save the video thumbnail as well? Video description? Comments? Channel name? Channel avatar? etc Currently I use yt-dlp to manually download individual videos that I want to keep. At the moment I only save the video itself. And most of the time I then also paste the URL of the video into archive.is save page and web.archive.org/save so that there is a snapshot of what the video page itself looked like at the time. But this is still incomplete, and relies on those services continuing to exist. Locally saving a snapshot of the page like that, and then also saving the thumbnail and perhaps more of the comments would be nice.

CrampusDestrus 3y ago
You can embed both the thumbnail and the description of a video with ytdl, if you use the appropriate containers
- tjfl 3y ago
  I didn't know this, neat! Going to try this out: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/mcvgmr/download_the_description_and_automatically_put/ https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/mcvgmr/download_...
submeta 3y ago
Check this code fragment: youtube_details = { "youtube_id": vid_id, "channel_name": vid["channel"], "vid_thumb_url": vid["thumbnail"], "title": vid["title"], "channel_id": vid["channel_id"], "duration": duration_str, "published": published, "timestamp": int(datetime.now().timestamp()), # Pulling enum value out so it is serializable "vid_type": vid_type.value, }
brettwilcox 3y ago
You should also check out https://archivebox.io/ https://archivebox.io/
moritzruth 3y ago
It saves all the things you mentioned plus the number of views and likes.
abracadaniel 3y ago
I’ve been using the ytdl-sub docker container for managing automated download of channels and importing them into Plex https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub
snthd 3y ago
https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-YouTube-DL-Scripts-Collection https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate...
progman32 3y ago
Yes to all of those. It even indexes most of those so you can do full text searches if you want.

CrampusDestrus 3y ago

You can embed both the thumbnail and the description of a video with ytdl, if you use the appropriate containers

tjfl 3y ago
I didn't know this, neat! Going to try this out: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/mcvgmr/download_the_description_and_automatically_put/ https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/mcvgmr/download_...

submeta 3y ago

Check this code fragment: youtube_details = { "youtube_id": vid_id, "channel_name": vid["channel"], "vid_thumb_url": vid["thumbnail"], "title": vid["title"], "channel_id": vid["channel_id"], "duration": duration_str, "published": published, "timestamp": int(datetime.now().timestamp()), # Pulling enum value out so it is serializable "vid_type": vid_type.value, }

brettwilcox 3y ago

You should also check out https://archivebox.io/ https://archivebox.io/

moritzruth 3y ago

It saves all the things you mentioned plus the number of views and likes.

abracadaniel 3y ago

I’ve been using the ytdl-sub docker container for managing automated download of channels and importing them into Plex https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub

snthd 3y ago

https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-YouTube-DL-Scripts-Collection https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate...

progman32 3y ago

Yes to all of those. It even indexes most of those so you can do full text searches if you want.