dmn001/youtube_channel_archiver

Starting point for archiving entire YouTube channels using yt-dlp (originally youtube-dl)

yt-dlp config - downloading entire youtube channels for archival

Readme

This repo contains a config file which makes it easy to download entire youtube channels, and also update them without having to re-download existing videos.

Update 2022-09: It has been a while since youtube-dl was updated, so I have updated all the commands and config to use the current most popular youtube video downloader: yt-dlp.

Usage

Edit channel urls in yt-dlp-channels.txt.

The empty file yt-dlp-archive.txt is used to store downloaded video ids.

Linux

chmod +x download_archive.sh

Run using ./download_archive.sh

Windows

Run download_archive.bat

Thanks

Thanks to https://www.reddit.com/user/Stephen304 for creating the original config, on the since deleted post: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/858ny5/my_youtubedl_config_downloading_entire_channels/

There is an archive of the original post at: https://archive.ph/T4sa2

youtube_channel_archiver's Issues

Only downloading in 720p

I'm currently archiving a channel that's getting deleted soon, and they are only downloading in 720p. Any way to increase resolution?

Where to put files?

I've put the config in ~/.config/youtube-dl
Where do youtube-dl-archive.txt and youtube-dl-channels.txt go?

Is there a way to make this automatically run and download the new videos?

Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to run this script every 30 minutes or so and download new videos? Thanks in advance.

Can I share a slightly altered version of this project?

Been using this for years and credits will be in a txt file.

I would prefer it to have a permissive license.

ERROR: batch file youtube-dl-channels.txt could not be read

After executing the program, the error message as written in the title appears.
Youtube-dl has been updated, no solution found in the internet.

Would it be possible to add an audio channel setting to this?

I have this set up on a media server, and have this script on a crontab, to pull the latest videos. But it'd also be nice to be able to do a fetch for an "audio channel"?

Maybe add a whole nother file named: youtube-dl-audio-channels.txt

ffmpeg cannot find unescaped filenames

if the video title contains whitespace, ffmpeg cannot find the video file to add metadata to resulting in a runtime error (albeit recoverable).

replacing the whitespace with - does not help because %(title)s could contain whitespace(and usually does).

-o "%(uploader)s-(%(uploader_id)s)/%(upload_date)s-%(title)s-(%(duration)ss)-[%(resolution)s]-[%(id)s].%(ext)s"