dmn001/youtube_channel_archiver

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

youtube_channel_archiver's Issues

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.

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?

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"

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.

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

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?

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.