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Tips/ideas for automatically downloading youtube videos from specific channels? (on Linux) (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In the light of google cracking down on ad block i want to be pro-active and automatically download new videos to my jelly fin server.

I was thinking off using this tool https://youtube-dl.org/ and writing a small script for it (with help of gpt4) but i am missing any general strategy on when i should trigger it and how to make sure it downloads all of the new videos exactly once.

I am hoping that i am not the first to do this and people can give me some good tips before i put to much work into this project.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Switch to https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp its better, its an updated version that is mantained. Right now I dont remember by memory the arguments. But if you read the documentation you can setup a file that contains a list of already downloaded videos. I used to use it to download playlists that I made and it only downloaded new videos. Read this thread, its should apply to youtube-dlp with a whole channel: https://askubuntu.com/questions/673442/downloading-youtube-playlist-with-youtube-dl-skipping-existing-files

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, this seems to have a lot of options, definitely taking a look at it next weekend.