yt-channels-archive

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

Installation

pip install yt-channels-archive

Usage

yt_archive --output-dir ./backup https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7edjYPNhTm5LYJMT7UMt0Q/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6cMYsKMx6XicFcFm7mTsmA

You may notice this will also places a file in your backup folder called 'download_archive.txt'.

Don't delete that as it's used to ensure videos are only downloaded once (if you remove it and re-run the above command existing videos will be re-downloaded).

Running the tests

pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
pytest tests

Running the linter

pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
flake8

Release History

0.2.3 (2023-02-20)

• Use yt-dlp from Git source (to get latest bugfixes ASAP).

0.2.2 (2023-02-20)

• Use yt-dlp.

0.2.1 (2023-02-05)

• youtube_dl==2021.4.1.
• Connect via ipv4 only.

0.2.0 (2021-02-01)

• Adds Channel images and other metadata to the archive.

0.1.7 (2021-01-23)

• Revert previous 2.

0.1.6 (2021-01-23)

• Force ipv6.

0.1.5 (2021-01-23)

• Force ipv4.

0.1.4 (2021-01-20)

• youtube_dl==2021.1.16.

0.1.3 (2021-01-20)

• Fix 429 errors.

0.1.2 (2021-01-09)

• Fix to prevent duplicate download work.

0.1.1 (2020-11-30)

• Corrects some 4k files missing audio.

0.1.0 (2020-11-28)

• Initial release.