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_Automated YouTube Archival._
A wrapper for youtube-dl that is for keeping very large amounts of data from YouTube in sync. It's designed to be simple and easy to use.
A wrapper for youtube-dl used for keeping very large amounts of data from YouTube in sync. It's designed to be simple and easy to use.
I have a single, very large playlist that I add any videos I like to. On my NAS is a service uses this program to download new videos (see [Example systemd Service.md]).
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- Uses yt-dlp instead of youtube-dl.
- Skip videos that are already downloaded which makes checking a playlist for new videos quick because youtube-dl doesn't have to fetch the entire playlist.
- Automatically update yt-dlp on launch.
- Downloads the videos in a format suitable for archiving:
- Download the videos in a format suitable for archiving:
- Complex `format` that balances video quality and file size.
- Embedding of metadata: chapters, thumbnail, english subtitles (automatic too), and YouTube metadata.
- Logs progress to a file.
- Log progress to a file.
- Simple display using `tqdm`.
- Limit the size of the downloaded videos.
- Parallel downloads.
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├─ logs/
│ ├─ youtube_dl-<UNIX timestamp>.log
│ ├─ youtube_dl-errors-<UNIX timestamp>.log
├─ download-archive.txt
├─ download-archive.log
├─ Example Video.mkv
```
`download-archive.txt` contains the videos that have already been downloaded. You can import videos you've already downloaded by adding their ID to this file.
`download-archive.log` contains the videos that have already been downloaded. You can import videos you've already downloaded by adding their ID to this file.
Videos will be saved using this name format:
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| `--rm-cache` | `-r` | Delete the yt-dlp cache on start. |
| `--backwards` | `-b` | Reverse all playlists and download in backwards order. |
| `--threads` | | How many download processes to use (threads). Default is how many CPU cores you have. You will want to find a good value that doesn't overload your connection. |
| `--daemon` | `-d` | Run in daemon mode. Disables progress bars and prints output that's good for journalctl. |
| `--daemon` | `-d` | Run in daemon mode. Disables progress bars. |

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'download_archive': download_archive,
'ydl_opts': thread_opts,
}) for video in download_queue)):
# Print stuff
if result['downloaded_video_id']:
download_archive_logger.info(result['downloaded_video_id'])
if len(result['video_error_logger_msg']):