automated-youtube-dl/Example systemd Service.md

Example systemd Service

/etc/systemd/system/youtube-dl.service

[Unit]
Description=Youtube-DL Daemon
After=network-online.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /home/user/automated-youtube-dl/downloader.py --daemon --silence-errors --sleep 60 "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=example12345" "/mnt/nfs/archive/YouTube/Example Playlist/"
User=user
Group=user

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Now start the service:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now youtube-dl

You can watch the process with:

sudo journalctl -b -u youtube-dl.service