youtube_channel_archiver VS tubearchivist

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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.

holy hell I hadn't come across archivebox as of yet, I'll definitely be spinning this up this eve. Is the UI comfortable enough to use as a "bookmark manager"? just been setting up tubearchivist for essentially this purpose, wondering if ArchiveBox would essentially do the same

I'm using TubeArchivist to maintain this VERY large collection.

There appears to be a patch in Tubearchivest at https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist/issues/587

Personally, I use Tubearchivist.

There are others though.

https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist

I've been seeing TubeArchivist posted a lot recently.

It has been some time since the last release, but v0.4.0 is finally wrapped up. This brings a wide range of fixes and changes, particularly stability improvements, with our new file system naming convention, this should solve a bunch of previously unsolvable compatibility issues. I highly recommend reading the release notes carefully, as the filesystem migration could be a breaking change if you made changes manually there: https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist/releases/tag/v0.4.0

I saw this was a Django app so I dug around to look at their models. As far as I can tell this is all they have: https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist/blob/master/t... - just a `Account` model.

It looks like Django + SQLite is used for user accounts, but all other data storage happens in Elasticsearch.

It's an interesting design decision. I would have gone all-in on the database, and used SQLite FTS in place of Elasticsearch for simplicity, but that's my own personal favourite stack. Not saying their design is bad, just different.

Oh, so it is. I happen to run a TubeArchivist at home that grabs the videos and subtitles. Then I can search through the subtitle files for key phrases. I must have grabbed it while it was still public.

You probably want Tube Archivist. The only problem is that it’s naming convention doesn’t work with the Jellyfin YouTube Metadata Plugin.