goindex VS youtube_channel_archiver

Instructions are here https://github.com/alx-xlx/goindex

Try not to share your files directly from Google Drive client. Instead, create a personal Google Drive index for your share. I have created one from scratch and it's quite easy to learn. I recommend you use goindex.

If you need to share without compromising your files, use something like this.

you will have to combine youtube-dl and rclone using a scripting language like python to scan for new videos and to download to your server and upload them to your cloud storage. You can also extend that to capturing youtube live chats, comments etc. and probably share privately using goindex

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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)

Some options suggested by the following, that may not have been in the old version of the program/manual page I have installed: * https://write.corbpie.com/downloading-a-youtube-channel-with-yt-dlp/ * https://github.com/dmn001/youtube_channel_archiver * https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/3958 The following might embed the comments into the video file instead of separately --no-write-info-json --embed-info-json --write-comments

https://github.com/dmn001/youtube_channel_archiver finally updated this for yt-dlp

I started using YouTube DL to download a whole channel this morning. At first, everything was going well, I was downloading at a 10mb/s speed, which is better than I was getting using other software, so that was a win for me. But after a while I noticed that the speed gradually went down from 10mb/s to 50KiB/s, and now even when I restart the command it stays at 50KiB/s. I am using this GitHub repo to download the channels, I don't know much about YouTube dl, so maybe the problem is in that config and I couldn't figure it out. Anyway, any help is appreciated. Thanks

youtube-dland https://github.com/dmn001/youtube_channel_archiver

There's an archiver script that skips existing files iirc, maybe try it locally. https://github.com/dmn001/youtube_channel_archiver. If I'd use it the problem is that I'd have to repack the whole complete archive Everytime a new video uploads. I think I will update the Archive regularly, but I'd implement them as a sort of additional archive that includes like X Months and only update the full archive rarely. We'll see.