youtube_channel_archiver VS ytdlp-interface

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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.

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Try this: https://github.com/ErrorFlynn/ytdlp-interface

Use this GUI based YT-dlp. Download and extract it to a new folder and launch the yt-dlp interface.exe. It has all the settings preconfigured for best results.

If command line scares you that much, there's plenty of GUIs for yt-dlp like this one or this one and a list of many others here. I've not used any GUIs though so all the safety and whatnot are on you.

ytdlp-interface supports livestreams (Windows only).

Personally, I used to use one of the dlg forks (not sure which one), until I got fed up with it and started developing my own GUI (which I now use exclusively: ytdlp-interface).

e.g. ytdlp-interface

Try a GUI interface. I don't know which one works for yt-dlp, as I'm not using Windows, but years ago there were working GUIs for youtube-dl. I would try https://github.com/ErrorFlynn/ytdlp-interface, or something else from this list: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/wiki/info-guis/