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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 shrike »

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…

This is how I accomplish basically the same thing - https://gist.github.com/Gestas/30ac0c3a07404174d0d7b66068221....

It requires a local file with a list of channels/playlists. I use Jellyfin (https://jellyfin.org/) as the frontend/video player.

Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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Post by jxramos »

rollcat wrote: post #116
jxramos wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

wow, I wonder if that's why it always feels so frequent an experience of mine where the audio and video feel subtly out of sync with one another. It's very minute but detectable. Feels like that experience has increased in the last 6 months or so.

That kind of issue on the encoder OR player side would've been easily caught in testing, including through automated tests, so as crazygringo says, it's most likely your OS/hardware. If you need to troubleshoot sync issues, this is a helpful tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD4emXqHCsE

that's pretty good, bip bop, those line up spot on. I wonder if its quality/resolution dependent. That test video is 360 max. Whatever I'm perceiving if I'm actually seeing something is in the ms range, it's not obvious it's like right on the border if I trust my senses.

Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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Post by dotancohen »

HEHENE wrote: post #39

I'm a big fan of the historical information that Yark shows. Arrimus 3D recently replacing a large chunk of their 3D modeling tutorials with religious content was a pretty big lightbulb moment for me that so much of the content I rely on - not just for the initial learning of a new skill, but as a continual reference when I forget something - is so fragile. I immediately bought a NAS and began backing up everything t…

You might consider making torrents of those reference videos. It will help other people find and use them, and provide robustness to your collection.

Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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Post by Owez »

pablo24602 wrote: post #34

I'd add some more flags/options for downloading specific videos or updating the library of downloaded content. I don't really want to download all the videos from one specific channel- instead I want to download the last 10 videos, for example.

You can do yark refresh [name] --videos=10

Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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Post by [deleted] »

7h3b8duvwi wrote: post #106
seligman99 wrote: post #61

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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 curio…

8000 hours? Napkin math time, that's 20 years of 10+ hours daily. I call BS.

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Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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Post by michaelcampbell »

7h3b8duvwi wrote: post #106
seligman99 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 curio…

8000 hours? Napkin math time, that's 20 years of 10+ hours daily. I call BS.

You need to resize your napkins.

Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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Post by romwell »

0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #139
romwell wrote: post #101

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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.

My downloader defaults to the highest quality, so unless I remember to specify a setting, I get gigabytes of video for something that could easily be 480 quality. In the event I forget, I reencode with ffmpeg.

It's a reasonable default, but if one has gone to the trouble of setting up a NAS and scripts, might as well tick that box.

Re: Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

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Post by midoridensha »

alexvoda wrote: post #117
midoridensha wrote: post #92

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My understanding is that Wikipedia does not survive on, or even need donations, at all: they are entirely funded through their endowment. The donations go to the Wikimedia Foundation which spends the money on a bunch of other social stuff that's not related to running Wikipedia at all. So unless you want to support all those other causes, you're effectively wasting your money by donating to Wikipedia's frequent donat…

While that is true and it is much more worthwhile to donate to the Internet Archive instead of Wikipedia (many Wikipedia references depend on being archived by IA), I would not want to start a anti-Wikipedia-donations movement. Sure they have plenty of money now and are wasting some of it and are begging for more, but if they would stop receiving any, they can eventually burn through everything they have. And having…

From what I've read (I may be wrong), Wikipedia has enough in its endowment to survive indefinitely. Of course, if all donations suddenly stopped and they kept wasting money on non-Wikipedia stuff, this might no longer hold true, but that's an issue with bad management.
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