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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 seligman99 »

prometheus76 wrote: post #11

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.

Long ago I had my podcast downloader keep all files it downloads and recently I've been using OpenAI's Whisper to go through and create transcripts of the 8000 or so hours of data I have downloaded over the years.

It's very cool to be able to search through and remind myself of something I heard once. Not exactly life changing, but still, nice to be able to quickly drill down and find audio for something when a curiosity strikes me.

Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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Post by 404mm »

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…

Ignore youtube-dl, it has speed issues. Use the fork yt-dlp.

If you want gui, check out TubeSync. Web UI for yt-dlp , ffmpeg and nicely packaged in docker

Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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Post by aktenlage »

olonn wrote: post #56
masukomi wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

a) i seriously doubt your "most" claim about free disk space. Maybe "most privileged white folks in rich countries" but not "most people" b) just because i HAVE 10Gb of free disk space doesn't mean i'm going to offer it up for archiving of random internet crap c) if it was on my phone it'd cost money and now we're very actively ignoring just how expensive it is to be online in 3rd world countries if you're not a rich…

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Wow, the word racism is used really inflationary. I cannot find that the GP has posted a derogatory opinion about other "races". Maybe they are a bit narrow minded or ignorant, but calling them "racist maggot" is ridiculous.

Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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Post by Owez »

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…

Yark will be able to do this in v1.3 releasing in ~1 month provided it has access to the playlists, I'm not sure how to do creds currently but I'll look into it.

Issue for downloading playlists: https://github.com/Owez/yark/issues/49

Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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Post by Owez »

theandrewbailey wrote: post #3
Owez wrote: post #2

I'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 :)

Can you edit your submission to add a "Show HN:" before the title? Like these: https://news.ycombinator.com/show

Will do

Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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Post by iLoveOncall »

Owez wrote: post #64
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…

Yark will be able to do this in v1.3 releasing in ~1 month provided it has access to the playlists, I'm not sure how to do creds currently but I'll look into it. Issue for downloading playlists: https://github.com/Owez/yark/issues/49

> I'm not sure how to do creds currently but I'll look into it

Welcome to the nightmarish world of authentication to Google products, which all have 4 different versions of documentation and not a single one up to date.

Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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Post by AkshatJ27 »

rchaud wrote: post #41
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.

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.

Bandwidth is expensive and videos take up way more bandwidth than text. I'd say it would be pretty much impossible to run something like YouTube, on that big of a scale, solely on donations.

Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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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…

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