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I'm backing up my Youtube favorites locally since 2018, so far 10k videos. I might try to use this because seems like would be a fun way to play them in the bac

I'm backing up my Youtube favorites locally since 2018, so far 10k videos. I might try to use this because seems like would be a fun way to play them in the background on a second monitor.

VTimofeenko 2y ago
I've been thinking about doing this. What's your setup?
- madphilosopher 2y ago
  Not the OP, but I have a Postfix mail server running on my home media box that receives YouTube URLs sent to its special email address. Postfix passes the message to a Python script that parses out the URL and places it into a Redis queue. A second Python program, running as a daemon, watches the queue and then downloads the video using yt-dlp. I can also enqueue video URLs from the command line. This is the command that the daemon runs to request 720p, for example: command = 'yt-dlp --write-info-json -f "bv*[height<=720]+ba" --output "out.%%(ext)s" --merge-output-format mp4 "%s"' % url
  - yard2010 2y ago
    You live in the future
  - darkwater 2y ago
    Sounds like how RMS browses the web. Nice setup, by the way.
- haunter 2y ago
  yt-dlp I just parse the URLs from the liked playlist every couple of days with a Chrome extension then simply run the app. yt-dlp would work automatically too with logins but I'm always too nervous that Google would just straight up ban my account for whatever reasons. So I rather do it in a more manual way.
- add-sub-mul-div 2y ago
  I run a flask app with an endpoint that takes a video URL and runs yt-dlp. I have a bookmarklet that submits the URL of the current video page I'm on to the web service. Also when I'm in NewPipe on the phone I can go to a video and share the URL to an app that forwards it to the web service.
emacsen 2y ago
I've been thinking about this myself. I have a few questions for you. The first is how you organize them. With 10k videos, do you organize the files in some way? Secondly, aside from this project, have you found a nice way to browse/watch these videos? Thirdly, any chance you could throw your scripts up somewhere?
- monkeywork 2y ago
  Check out pinchflat. Think of it like sonarr for yt channels. I use it to grab content for my kid that he consumers via Plex so I can limit what he sees and remove the algo. Pinchflat does all the renaming, metadata, and file structure as I configure.
  - emacsen 2y ago
    Thank you so much!!! I wish it supported other sites that yt-dlp supports, particularly Nebula but this is already a great start, and hopefully they'll add other sites eventually. It seems this has been discussed before.
- bazmattaz 2y ago
  You can add the content to Plex and browse your YT downloads there
jasonjayr 2y ago
How do you guard against getting your downloader connected to your google account (by IP address or some other association), and getting your google account perm-banned?

I'm backing up my Youtube favorites locally since 2018, so far 10k videos. I might try to use this because seems like would be a fun way to play them in the background on a second monitor.

VTimofeenko 2y ago

I've been thinking about doing this. What's your setup?

madphilosopher 2y ago
Not the OP, but I have a Postfix mail server running on my home media box that receives YouTube URLs sent to its special email address. Postfix passes the message to a Python script that parses out the URL and places it into a Redis queue. A second Python program, running as a daemon, watches the queue and then downloads the video using yt-dlp. I can also enqueue video URLs from the command line. This is the command that the daemon runs to request 720p, for example: command = 'yt-dlp --write-info-json -f "bv*[height<=720]+ba" --output "out.%%(ext)s" --merge-output-format mp4 "%s"' % url
- yard2010 2y ago
  You live in the future
- darkwater 2y ago
  Sounds like how RMS browses the web. Nice setup, by the way.
haunter 2y ago
yt-dlp I just parse the URLs from the liked playlist every couple of days with a Chrome extension then simply run the app. yt-dlp would work automatically too with logins but I'm always too nervous that Google would just straight up ban my account for whatever reasons. So I rather do it in a more manual way.
add-sub-mul-div 2y ago
I run a flask app with an endpoint that takes a video URL and runs yt-dlp. I have a bookmarklet that submits the URL of the current video page I'm on to the web service. Also when I'm in NewPipe on the phone I can go to a video and share the URL to an app that forwards it to the web service.

emacsen 2y ago

I've been thinking about this myself. I have a few questions for you. The first is how you organize them. With 10k videos, do you organize the files in some way? Secondly, aside from this project, have you found a nice way to browse/watch these videos? Thirdly, any chance you could throw your scripts up somewhere?

monkeywork 2y ago
Check out pinchflat. Think of it like sonarr for yt channels. I use it to grab content for my kid that he consumers via Plex so I can limit what he sees and remove the algo. Pinchflat does all the renaming, metadata, and file structure as I configure.
- emacsen 2y ago
  Thank you so much!!! I wish it supported other sites that yt-dlp supports, particularly Nebula but this is already a great start, and hopefully they'll add other sites eventually. It seems this has been discussed before.
bazmattaz 2y ago
You can add the content to Plex and browse your YT downloads there

jasonjayr 2y ago

How do you guard against getting your downloader connected to your google account (by IP address or some other association), and getting your google account perm-banned?