yt-dlp and a batch file that runs via Task Scheduler has been doing this for me for a couple of years now. I also grab the captions and throw that into a database so that I can search transcripts for a clip that I can remember but can't remember which video it's in. It was a fun weekend project.
Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable
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Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable
#12Bit of a noob question here. What's an archiver for?
Is it a library for things you've watched and want to store outside of youtube? Or is this for storing content you've created / managing your own portfolio of content?
Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable
#13How cool would it be if everyone had IPFS running in their browser, and everyone dedicated some time to filling it with a backup of the internet, including YouTube.
Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable
#14Bit of a noob question here. What's an archiver for? Is it a library for things you've watched and want to store outside of youtube? Or is this for storing content you've created / managing your own portfolio of content?
There are coded hints in the link, like:
> Yark lets you continuously archive all videos and metadata for YouTube channels. You can also view your archive as a seamless offline website
Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable
#15Bit of a noob question here. What's an archiver for? Is it a library for things you've watched and want to store outside of youtube? Or is this for storing content you've created / managing your own portfolio of content?
Personally, for me it's archiving. In case I want to go back to it. Videos just keep disappearing from YouTube because channels get deleted by YouTube, by their owners, videos get copystriked, geoblocked, privated, and so on. As I'm lazy as f### I didn't create anything as sophisticated as OP, but a simple 10 line PHP Script on my home server that just pretends being Kodi enough to fool yatse (android remote for Kodi). So every time I watch a video on YouTube (on my phone) that I want to keep I tap "share" and then "play on Kodi", my php script gets the video url from the post data and launches youtube-dl. It sucks because I never get feedback if it worked and when it's finished, but I log all the URLs and at some point in the future I'll eventually add a cronjob that checks the list and sends reports and whatnot. Some day.
Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable
#16How cool would it be if everyone had IPFS running in their browser, and everyone dedicated some time to filling it with a backup of the internet, including YouTube.
I did some napkin math. If 1 billion people each backed up 10gb, we’d almost have enough to store a copy of YouTube with zero data redundancy.
Google is massive.
Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable
#17I've been working on polishing my YouTube archiver project for the last while and I've finally released a solid version of it, it has an offline web viewer/visualiser for archived channels and it's managed using a cli. Most importantly, its easy to use :)
I have a cron job that uses yt-dlp to download just the audio tracks of any videos that I have saved to a public playlist, can this be a replacement for that?
Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable
#18How cool would it be if everyone had IPFS running in their browser, and everyone dedicated some time to filling it with a backup of the internet, including YouTube.
I did some napkin math. If 1 billion people each backed up 10gb, we’d almost have enough to store a copy of YouTube with zero data redundancy. Google is massive.
It's unbelievable that YouTube was as free as it was for as long as it was.
We got too great a deal for so long that we many people can't see things any other way.
Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I did some napkin math. If 1 billion people each backed up 10gb, we’d almost have enough to store a copy of YouTube with zero data redundancy. Google is massive.
It's unbelievable that YouTube was as free as it was for as long as it was. We got too great a deal for so long that we many people can't see things any other way.
Was probably easier when the videos had a time limit and didn't support 4K (or 1080p even).
Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I did some napkin math. If 1 billion people each backed up 10gb, we’d almost have enough to store a copy of YouTube with zero data redundancy. Google is massive.
It's unbelievable that YouTube was as free as it was for as long as it was. We got too great a deal for so long that we many people can't see things any other way.
It is not "free" at all if you are paying with your data. My data privacy is worth way more than the cost of streaming some video with crap discovery.