TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-YouTube-DL-Scripts-Collection VS youtube-dl-react-viewer

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Hopefully that saves someone some extra googling.

For more hardcore automated archival, I do this on linux (which doesn't have the character length issues) and I'd recommend looking at the following for inspiration

- https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate... (Supports sponsorblock, and it turns out truly finding the best quality is pretty complex)

- https://github.com/dmn001/youtube_channel_archiver (A .conf file is very nice to use.)

- https://github.com/dbeley/youtube-archiver (how to set up a systemd service)

Note that this option is somewhat broken. At least it was for years. For this reason, there are extra scripts that try to grab the actual best video + audio like https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-YouTube-DL-Scripts-Collection

yt-dlp has a "best" option but it does not work all that great. Use this script instead

If you want to do complicated bullshit, like setting up automated downloading of channels for archiving, then I recommend this: https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-YouTube-DL-Scripts-Collection : Initially might seem confusing, this is a good set of scripts for looking at how yt-dlp is "supposed" to be set up script-wise. Good for manually messing with things and setting up a cron job to run. These scripts will assist in downloading more than just the video, like thumbnails and metadata, and comments.

yt-dlp also scripts SO nicely. Take a look at this.

My scripts of course! https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-YouTube-DL-Scripts-Collection

You might be intereseted in these youtube archive scripts: https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate...

to get this: FROM python:latest RUN apt-get -y update && \ apt-get install -y ffmpeg bash python3 python3-pip &&\ apt-get -y update && \ apt-get clean all && \ python3 -m pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp.git@release && \ python3 -m pip install apprise # set the working directory WORKDIR /app # Clone TheFrenchGhosty's scripts git clone https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-YouTube-DL-Scripts-Collection.git

If I'm archiving a channel or several videos from a channel, I use another docker container running youtube-dl-react-viewer+yt-dlp. The interface is somewhat similar to Youtube's site, but it can display videos downloaded from other websites supported by yt-dlp (provided the site provides the bare minimum metadata such as uploader name, upload date, thumbnail etc).

You could try https://github.com/graham-walker/youtube-dl-react-viewer.

You could check out https://github.com/graham-walker/youtube-dl-react-viewer - although atm it doesn't have a mechanism to auto update downloaded channels.

Edit: and thanks /u/20420 for letting us know about https://github.com/graham-walker/youtube-dl-react-viewer

screenshots // github