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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.
I would actually like the opposite: cap the resolution. I don't really need 4k videos.
I have a youtube archiver script I'm using right now that I pulled from a thread on the data hoarder subreddit. My main issue is that I need the downloader to remove emojis from the filename because I sometimes sync them to Dropbox. Can this project do that?
By the way, does anybody know a way to include the YouTube time stamps as chapters in a downloaded video file?
If you're interested in this kind of thing, you may also want to check out: - the Distributed YouTube Archive Discord: https://discord.com/invite/PQqks7eSKc - ArchiveTeam also do a significant amount of YT archiving: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/YouTube - a similar, but private effort: https://reddit.com/r/Archivists/comments/5uvfpw/youtube_arch...
https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library/blob/f778e22bf80c58...
My focus is on error handling and trying to differentiate between unrecoverable errors and recoverable ones (try different proxy) but there's still a lot of work to be done.
Also look into https://github.com/swolegoal/squid-dl
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That's impressive indeed, but if we boil it down to just the things that are worth saving, removing duplicates, long and pointless livestreams, long videos that are just endless loops, etc., it could be done with much less space. If we also ignore auto generated spam[1] and harmful content (Elsagate, etc.), it would require even less. It's a nice thought experiment, but we really don't need to archive all of YT. That…
I would argue that backing up selectively instead of just grabbing everything makes the job harder, not easier. You might need less storage, but who will decide (and how) what gets stored and what doesn't?
If you're interested in this kind of thing, you may also want to check out: - the Distributed YouTube Archive Discord: https://discord.com/invite/PQqks7eSKc - ArchiveTeam also do a significant amount of YT archiving: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/YouTube - a similar, but private effort: https://reddit.com/r/Archivists/comments/5uvfpw/youtube_arch...
I also archive many playlists with some code I wrote but I don't use a GUI. https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library/blob/f778e22bf80c58... My focus is on error handling and trying to differentiate between unrecoverable errors and recoverable ones (try different proxy) but there's still a lot of work to be done. Also look into https://github.com/swolegoal/squid-dl
"The use-case of tabs are websites that you know are going to change: subreddits, games, or tools that you want to use for a few minutes daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly."
A while ago I did something similar. I'm already downloading various playlists via yt-dlp and wrote a web interface [1] to view/play/search them. My biggest annoyance at the time was importing my existing videos (and converting them to a streamable format, generating thumbnails and hover-previews etc). Do you have any plans of allowing to import existing yt-dlp folder (in the standard layout with a bunch of mkv files…
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.
Looks like the "best" quality setting is hardcoded currently: https://github.com/Owez/yark/blob/676074ee3d9e379d15e52ffe2e... It would be nice to expose this setting via config file and/or the cli.
I'm going to cap videos to 1080p by default and have a config setting to customize this.
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With the rise of cheap 4k cameras, it goes faster than you think. I download guitar training videos where a 25 minute tutorial can be 2-3gbs. I believe those are “only” 2k resolution. If you do not download them in a space conscious format or recompress (using mildly aggressive settings can drop them to 100mb), a handful of videos can quickly fill a hard drive.
Why wouldn't one download something like that in 720P video/196kbps audio? I mean, there's a time and a place for 4K, but watching the zits on the face of a guy who tells you how to play C Am F G on a guitar isn't it. Not to mention, most of those cheap 4K cameras won't have optics to utilize those pixels; no quality will be lost in 720p.
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.
I run mine with cron and it puts files in a special folder for plex: https://github.com/nburns/utilities/blob/master/youtube.fish Pulls from my watch later playlist which is quite handy