Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

• yark

  20 1,838 5.5 Python

  YouTube archiving made simple.

Working on some of the groundwork of it now in https://github.com/Owez/yark/pull/57. Higher quality might be a bigger issue to tackle because of dependence on ffmpeg but it'll be done in v1.3, slated for release in about a months time.

I'm going to cap videos to 1080p by default and have a config setting to customize this.

• tubearchivist

  153 4,043 9.3 Python

  Your self hosted YouTube media server

  

I'm a big fan of the historical information that Yark shows.

Arrimus 3D recently replacing a large chunk of their 3D modeling tutorials with religious content was a pretty big lightbulb moment for me that so much of the content I rely on - not just for the initial learning of a new skill, but as a continual reference when I forget something - is so fragile.

I immediately bought a NAS and began backing up everything that I gleam even the tiniest bit of learning from using a similar project, TubeArchivist[0]. Projects like this are really important for maintaining all of the great knowledge on the web.

[0] https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist

• InfluxDB

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• tubeup

  15 381 6.6 Python

  Use yt-dlp to download video and upload to the Internet Archive with metadata.

  

If you want to provide an option to upload artifacts to the Internet Archive, you could crib off of https://github.com/bibanon/tubeup

• utilities

  2 0 3.5 Python

I run mine with cron and it puts files in a special folder for plex: https://github.com/nburns/utilities/blob/master/youtube.fish

Pulls from my watch later playlist which is quite handy

• TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-YouTube-DL-Scripts-Collection

  72 2,165 4.8 Shell

  The ultimate collection of scripts for YouTube-DL.

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

• TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate

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

• browser-extension

  4 105 7.5 JavaScript

  Tube Archivist Companion for your Browser (by tubearchivist)

  

Seconding tubearchivist. One of the killer features IMO is the browser extension [0], which adds a button on every video to send that video to the server to archive.

[0] https://github.com/tubearchivist/browser-extension

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• docker-yark

  1 9 1.6 Dockerfile

  Yark docker container

I like it, it's much better than what I've used previously.

I made a docker container to run it (https://github.com/na4ma4/docker-yark), when I get time I'll do a PR if you're interested so it isn't a separate project.

(I'll also fix it so the host is a command line argument not just changing the binding from 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0)

• yt-channels-archive

  1 9 1.9 Python

  A CLI tool to backup multiple YouTube channels along with their associated metadata and thumbnails. In the highest available quality.

  

Here's a similar project we've been working on, it's running 24/7

https://github.com/VeemsHQ/yt-channels-archive

This just provides the latest HQ of the videos + thumbs & metadata, no historic information such as changes in video titles.

• youtube-dl-viewer

  6 68 0.0 JavaScript

  View youtube-dl backups on a youtube-like webpage

A while ago I did something similar. I'm already downloading various playlists via yt-dlp and wrote a [web interface](https://github.com/Mikescher/youtube-dl-viewer) to view them.

My biggest annoyance at the time was importing my existing videos (and converting them to a streamable format, generating thumbnails and hover-previews etc).

• library

  15 158 9.7 Python

  An index for your archive. 70+ CLI tools to help you build, browse, and manage your media library. (by chapmanjacobd)

I also archive many playlists with some code I wrote but I don't use a GUI.

https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library/blob/f778e22bf80c58...

My focus is on error handling and trying to differentiate between unrecoverable errors and recoverable ones (try different proxy) but there's still a lot of work to be done.

Also look into https://github.com/swolegoal/squid-dl

• squid-dl

  3 82 3.6 Python

  a massively parallel yt-dlp-based YouTube downloader

I also archive many playlists with some code I wrote but I don't use a GUI.

https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library/blob/f778e22bf80c58...

My focus is on error handling and trying to differentiate between unrecoverable errors and recoverable ones (try different proxy) but there's still a lot of work to be done.

Also look into https://github.com/swolegoal/squid-dl

• Jellyfin

  1,034 29,579 9.9 C#

  The Free Software Media System

  

This is how I accomplish basically the same thing - https://gist.github.com/Gestas/30ac0c3a07404174d0d7b66068221....

It requires a local file with a list of channels/playlists. I use Jellyfin (https://jellyfin.org/) as the frontend/video player.

Suggest a related project