63 lines
3.4 KiB
Markdown
63 lines
3.4 KiB
Markdown
Youtube Channel Downloader
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YoutubeChannelDownloader creates an SQLite3 database of Youtube channels and their videos, and serves it out of a web server.
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## YCDL solves three main problems:
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### Metadata archive
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The database acts as a permanent archive of video metadata including title, description, duration, view count, and more. Even if a video or channel is deleted from Youtube, you will still have this information. Perfect for never losing track of unlisted videos, too.
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The thumbnails, however, are not stored in the database, but you can use `utilities\download_thumbnails.py` to download them.
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Note: At this time, refreshing a channel in YCDL will update video titles, descriptions, and view counts with their current values. If you refresh a channel after they have changed their video's title or description you will lose the previous value.
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### Easily watch every video on the channel
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When I discover a channel, I like to watch through their videos over the course of weeks or months. Within Youtube's own interface, it becomes difficult to know which videos I've watched and which ones I haven't. Scrolling through all of a channel's videos is tough especially if there are many.
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In YCDL, videos start off as pending and you can mark them as ignore or download, so the pending page is always your "to-watch" list.
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On my Youtube subscription box, I would often press the "hide" button on videos only to find them come back a few days later, and hiding live broadcasts was never reliable. YCDL makes watching my subscriptions much easier.
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### Send video IDs to youtube-dl
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YCDL does not perform the downloading of videos itself. When you click on the download button, it will create an empty file called `xxxxxxxxxxx.ytqueue` in the directory specified by the `ycdl.json` config file. You can send this ID into youtube-dl in your preferred way.
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## Features
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- Web interface with video embeds
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- "Sub-box" page where newest videos from all channels are listed in order
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- Sort videos by date, duration, views, or random
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- Background thread will refresh channels over time
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- Automark channels as ignore or download
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## Your API key
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You are responsible for your own `bot.py` file, with a function `get_youtube_key`, called with no arguments, that returns a Youtube API key.
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1. Go to https://console.developers.google.com/.
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2. Create a project using the menu in the upper left.
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3. From the project's dashboard, click "Enable APIs and Services".
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4. Search for and choose the latest YouTube Data API.
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5. On the left bar, click "Credentials".
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6. Click "Create credentials" and choose "API key". In my experience they all start with "AIzaSy".
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7. Return this value from `get_youtube_key` however you deem fit.
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## Screenshots
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## To do list
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- Keep permanent record of titles and descriptions.
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- Progress indicator for channel refresh.
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