yark 0.1.5

YouTube archiving made simple.

yark

YouTube archiving made simple.

• yark
  • Installation
  • Managing your Archive
  • Viewing your Archive
  • Details

Yark lets you continuously archive all videos and metadata of a channel. You can also view your archive as a seemless offline website 🦾

Installation

To install yark, simply download Python 3.9+ and run the following:

$ pip3 install yark

Managing your Archive

Once you've installed yark, think of a name for your archive and copy the target's channel id:

$ yark new owez UCSMdm6bUYIBN0KfS2CVuEPA

Now that you've created the archive, you can tell yark to download all videos and metadata:

$ yark refresh owez

Here's what my channel looked like after following the steps (if anything was updated/deleted it would be blue/red to indicate):

Viewing your Archive

Viewing you archive is very simple, just type view and optionally the archive name:

$ yark view owez

This will pop up an offline website in your browser letting you watch all videos 🚀

Under each video is a rich history report filled with graphs, as well as a noting feature which lets you add timestamped and permalinked comments 👐

Details

Here are some things to keep in mind when using yark; the good and the bad:

• Don't create a new archive again if you just want to update it, yark accumulates all new metadata for you via timestamps
• Feel free to suggest new features via the issues tab on this repository
• Scheduling isn't a feature just yet, please use cron or something similar!