A CLI tool to backup multiple YouTube channels along with their associated metadata and thumbnails. In the highest available quality.
Project description
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 place 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
0.1.3 (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.