youtube-sm 1.1.1

Youtube subscription manager

Youtube_subscription_manager

• Description
• Installation
• Usage
• Commands
• Type of File
• Cache
• HTML & RSS
• Requirements
• Compatible
• Screenshots

Description

Youtube_subscription_manager is an alternative to youtube.com to recover your subscriptions without requires an account.

It can gather informations about every video in a playlist, a channel or your subsciption feed and outputs it as a html page, a detailed list or a list of links.

Installation

1. Clone the project: git clone https://github.com/sawyerf/Youtube_suscription_manager.git
2. Open the folder you just cloned : cd Youtube_subscription_manager
3. Execute the setup: sudo python3 setup.py install
4. Recover your subscription file in youtube and you are ready to go !

Usage

1. Download your subscriptions configuration from youtube.com (here)
2. Once this is done, you may load it by using the following command :

youtube-sm --init [file]

3. Finally, you can start using the program using the commands shown below :

youtube-sm [OPTIONS]

Commands

-h                     Print this help text and exit
-n     [file]          Use an other xml file for your subscriptions
-m     [mode]          Choose the type of the output (html, raw, list)
-t     [nb of days]    Choose how far in the past do you want the program to look for videos
-d                     Show the dead channels + those who posted no videos
-o     [nb of months]  Show the channels who didn't post videos in [nb of months] + dead channels
-l     [id]            Analyze only one channel or playlist
-r                     Remove the cache
-s     [id/all]        Outputs the stats of the selected channel(s)
-a     [id]            Append a channel or a playlist at the end of sub.
--init [file]          Remove all your subs and the cache and init with your subscription file.
--af   [file]          Append a file with list of channel or a playlist in sub.swy
--ax   [file]          Append a xml file in sub.swy
--html                 Recover yours subs in the common page web (more videos)
--output [file]        Choose the name of the output file
--cat                  View your subscriptions
--css                  Import the css files
--loading              Prints a progress bar while running

Type of File

• raw :

{date}     {video_id}     {channel_id}     {title}     {channel}     {link_pic}

• list :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={video_id}

• html :

<!--NEXT -->
<div class="video">
	<a class="left" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={video_id}"> <img src="{link_pic}" ></a>
	<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={video_id}"><h4>{title}</h4> </a>
	<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/{channel_id}"> <p>{channel}</p> </a>
	<p>{date}</p>
	<p class="clear"></p>
</div>

Cache

3 files are generated by the program : sub.swy, log and data/.

• sub.swy is a list of yours subscriptions.
• log contains the script's time of execution.
• data/ is a folder where the information for every video are stored.

These 3 files are generated in:

• Windows: C:\Users\<name>\.youtube_sm\.
• Linux: /home/<name>/.cache/youtube_sm/..

HTML & RSS

With youtube-sm you can recover your subscriptions using two methods:

• RSS (default): videos are recovered through an XML page.
• HTML (with --html): videos are recovered through an HTML page.

They are two choice because they cannot recover the same informations and don't require the same amount of time. So the default method (the RSS method) is more adapted to recover only the newest videos, whereas the HTML method is more adapted to recover all the videos of a playlist or to recover its last 30 videos of a channel.

	HTML	HTML	RSS
	Channel	Playlist	Both
Execution	slow	slow	Fast
Number	30 videos	100 videos	15 videos
Date	~	✖	✔
Like Rate	✖	✖	✔
Views	✔	✖	✔

Requirements

• Python 3

Compatible

• Linux
• Windows
• Android (Termux)
• MacOS (I don't know)

Screenshots