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40 lines
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# Youtube-Archiver
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***Always** keep a local backup.*
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This utility allows you to define a collection of links to youtube-channels and/or playlists, which you want to keep synced to your local storage.
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All you have to do is to call `download.sh`, which will download all videos of your defined playlists that are not already saved locally.
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This basically means, after doing the initial big download, you could run it as a cronjob, since it won't take long when it's only downloading newly uploaded videos.
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## How does it work?
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Pretty easily.
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#### 1
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First, you define the stuff you want to download, in yaml files. For more info on syntax, see the [example file](https://github.com/Leonetienne/Youtube-Archiver/blob/master/linklist-example.yaml).
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```yaml
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# linklist-music.yaml
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# Eminem
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url: https://www.youtube.com/c/eminem/videos
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folder-name: Eminem
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# DJ. S3RL
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url: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb6JTMjrHZCYFD9Y04CBk9g
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# Snoop Dogg
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url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV-Xcy_bF2w&list=PL75C4B43E5F60A82C
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folder-name: Snoog Dogg
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```
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#### 2
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Secondly, calling `download.sh` will invoke the two python scripts responsible for downloading.
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#### 3
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These python scripts will invoke [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) for each link supplied. Yt-dlp runs in download-archive mode,
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which basically means it won't download a video twice. It will save it's ID and check if it's already saved before downloading.
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Files will be saved to `./videos/<folder>/` and `./music/<folder>`.
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