autoYT

autoYT is a Python program designed to automate the process of watching videos out of YouTube, without using YouTube. It's functions include searching YouTube for videos, searching channels for a new videos, but also to download, delete and group videos into folders based on their upload date both automatically and manually.

Usage

To search for a video, use the -s or --search argument.

To search for new videos on a channel, use -S or --searchchannel argument.

You can use -c or --cap argument with both of the above arguments to limit the number of results.

example:

$ autoyt -S "nocopyrightsounds" -c 5
Channel Name: NoCopyrightSounds
Channel Link: https://youtube.com/channel/UC_aEa8K-EOJ3D6gOs7HcyNg
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Title: ASHWOOD - Maria (ft. Blooom & Ghost’n’Ghost) [NCS Release]
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsnluXPC6s0
Upload Date: 2023-06-22
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Title: jeonghyeon & Noisy Choice - Too Far [NCS Release]
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI4usARVdaU
Upload Date: 2023-06-20
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Title: Daniel Levi - Clown Around [NCS Release]
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPyg-QknNeY
Upload Date: 2023-06-17
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Title: Coopex, Afterfab, Heleen - EX [NCS Release]
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpPiFMcjF6M
Upload Date: 2023-06-16
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Title: Anyone remember these? #nocopyrightsounds #ncs #music #nostalgia #childhoodmemories
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC8LvAqhPtE
Upload Date: 2023-06-15
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To add a channel to cache use -a or --add argument with a channel's ID or channel's name after. You can also add multiple channels at once.

In the same way you can remove channels from cache using -r or --remove argument with a channel's ID or channel's name after.

To list added channels use -l or --list argument.

example

$ autoyt -a "nocopyrightsounds" "UCsBjURrPoezykLs9EqgamOA"
$ autoyt -l
Name: NoCopyrightSounds
Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_aEa8K-EOJ3D6gOs7HcyNg
Channel ID: UC_aEa8K-EOJ3D6gOs7HcyNg
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Name: Fireship
Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsBjURrPoezykLs9EqgamOA
Channel ID: UCsBjURrPoezykLs9EqgamOA
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$ autoyt -r "UC_aEa8K-EOJ3D6gOs7HcyNg"
$ autoyt -l
Name: Fireship
Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsBjURrPoezykLs9EqgamOA
Channel ID: UCsBjURrPoezykLs9EqgamOA
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You can download videos from the saved channels using -d or --download argument. You can supply this argument with the number of days - this indicates how old videos are allowed to be downloaded.

In a similar way you can use a ``--removevideos` argument with the number N of days after it. It'll delete all videos older than N days.

You can also use --find argument with a channel's name after it. It will list location of all of the downloaded videos from a selected channel

example

$ autoyt -d 5
2023_06_21/Fireship/PHP will make you poor StackOverflow 2023 Results: Downloading...
2023_06_20/Fireship/SST in 100 seconds: Downloading...
2023_06_16/Fireship/RIP Google Domains… and 5 big tech stories this week: Downloading...
2023_06_13/Fireship/Nuxt in 100 Seconds: Downloading...
2023_06_12/Fireship/Reddit’s API rug pull: Downloading...
$ autoyt --find fireship
./videos/2023_06_12/Fireship/Reddit’s API rug pull.webm
./videos/2023_06_13/Fireship/Nuxt in 100 Seconds.webm
./videos/2023_06_16/Fireship/RIP Google Domains… and 5 big tech stories this week.webm
./videos/2023_06_20/Fireship/SST in 100 seconds.webm
./videos/2023_06_21/Fireship/PHP will make you poor StackOverflow 2023 Results.webm   

$ autoyt --removevideos 3
$ autoyt --find fireship 
./videos/2023_06_21/Fireship/PHP will make you poor StackOverflow 2023 Results.webm

And finally you can use an endless mode - -e. It'll download and remove videos automatically by running in a loop. It takes all of it's arguments from the config file.

You can do more using autoYT. To list all of the available options use -h argument - autoyt -h

Config

Config is stored in the autoYT/src/config/config.toml file(soon to change). Configuration contains all of the preferences regarding the usage of this program.

Sample config.toml

# The directory where program will put all of the downloaded videos.
download_dir = "./videos"
# The directory where program will put the cache file with all of the saved channels
cache_dir = "./cache"
# The quality used to download all of the videos(see yt-dlp -f option)
quality = "ba+bv[height<=?1080]"
# Describes how old downloaded videos can be(in days). 0 means no limit.
max_video_age = 0
# How many videos are allowed to be downloaded from a channel. 0 means no limit.
max_downloaded_channel_videos = 0
# Automatically delete videos older than this number of days(endless mode). 0 means never.
delete_videos_age = 0 
# Wait this many seconds before checking channels for new videos again(endless mode).
channels_check_break = 0

# ID of a channel
[UC_aEa8K-EOJ3D6gOs7HcyNg]
# Quality setting just for this channel
quality = "x"