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Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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Post by rchaud »

CamelCaseName wrote: post #18
KMnO4 wrote: post #16

Earlier 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's unbelievable that Wikipedia is free and survives on donations.

Youtube sells ads and is subsidized by one of the biggest ad companies in the world that happens to have a lot of cheap cloud storage available.

Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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Post by alwayslikethis »

newsclues wrote: post #4

Why not use https://youtube-dl.org ?

youtube-dl basically became unusuable for a while now. It gets only tens of KB/s on my 1gbps connection. yt-dlp is a more maintained alternative, I think. It seems to get great speeds the last time I checked.

Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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Post by blowski »

hbn wrote: post #8
newsclues wrote: post #4

Why not use https://youtube-dl.org ?

ytdl is one of its dependencies You clearly didn't even skim the readme to see what this does

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Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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Post by j1elo »

Afrer reading the description, this project seems to be solely focused on downloading all of a specific channel's videos.

I've been taking my first steps at having a home server, and one of the things I'd love to do with it is having an archive of the videos that I have saved in my private playlists on YouTube. In my mind, the service would periodically check all my playlists, compare with what exists locally, and download any missing video. Maybe even with a nice web UI so it's easier to visually configure and use.

Does such a service already exist so I can self-host it?

Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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Post by svnpenn »

causality0 wrote: post #21

Does this have the ability to bet set to "grab highest available resolution" instead of specifying one? A lot of the material I'd like to archive has material from well before and after Youtube started supporting HD resolutions.

It's just a wrapper for YT-DLP

Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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Post by cocacola1 »

eats_indigo wrote: post #12

Bit 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?

I think it’s the latter. I’ve no issue with most things being one-and-done. But some channels have phenomenal content that I’d like to keep for the long term. Something might happen to their channel that makes it difficult to get, so I’ll regularly update my downloads with new videos, pictures, etc.

This applies to ripping, too. Funimation removed Drifters years ago, but I’ll always have a copy of it because I ripped it. Of course, I need to store it so it still costs money. But I can be content that I have the content.

Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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Post by judge2020 »

yesco wrote: post #19
CamelCaseName wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

For reference, 1080p was in 2009: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/1080p-hd-comes-to-youtu... while ads came out much before then: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/partner-program-expands...

Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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Post by aquova »

j1elo wrote: post #45

Afrer reading the description, this project seems to be solely focused on downloading all of a specific channel's videos. I've been taking my first steps at having a home server, and one of the things I'd love to do with it is having an archive of the videos that I have saved in my private playlists on YouTube. In my mind, the service would periodically check all my playlists, compare with what exists locally, and do…

I haven't used it personally, but Tube Archivist might be what you're looking for.

https://www.tubearchivist.com/

Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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Post by erinnh »

j1elo wrote: post #45

Afrer reading the description, this project seems to be solely focused on downloading all of a specific channel's videos. I've been taking my first steps at having a home server, and one of the things I'd love to do with it is having an archive of the videos that I have saved in my private playlists on YouTube. In my mind, the service would periodically check all my playlists, compare with what exists locally, and do…

Look at tubearchivist. It can do what you want.

You can subscribe to playlists, as well as automatically update and download videos.

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