Dear youtube archivists, how do you guys archive videos from search results (or particularly a channel)?

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

  72 2,163 4.8 Shell

  The ultimate collection of scripts for YouTube-DL.

I personally use youtube-dl as it is basically the gold standard for downloading videos especially on youtube. I do not mind using a CLI but when you have multiple different scripts and so on it can get a bit messy. Tartube can solve this problem almost completely and it internally also just uses youtube-dl. On top of that I use a TheFrenchGhosty's script to ensure I get decent quality as youtube-dl tends to download just the best version where no merging is needed.

• youtube-dl-server

  7 197 9.1 Vue

  Web / REST interface for downloading youtube videos onto a server. (by nbr23)

If it's something I'll be watching in Plex, I use a docker container running youtube-dl-server+youtube-dl to import it. I have an identical container set up for my SO so she can add her own stuff into her Plex libraries. I'll eventually be swapping out youtube-dl for yt-dlp in these containers.

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• youtube-dl-react-viewer

  6 130 7.7 JavaScript

  Discontinued Web app for downloading and viewing videos using youtube-dl, made with the MERN stack.

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).

• yt-dlp

  2,360 70,159 9.8 Python

  A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

  

I use yt-dlp with slightly modified* versions of /u/thefrenchghosty's scripts that I run daily with a cron job.

• VaultTube

  3 0 0.0 Python

  Discontinued VaultTube is a video archive and player application written in Python/Flask/Bootstrap4/HTML5

Took longer than expected and it's still a hot mess, I still don't recommend people use it, but it's there. https://github.com/dyslexicjedi/VaultTube https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/dyslexicjedi/vaulttube

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