> Once your YouTube video collection grows, it becomes hard to search and find a specific video. That's where Tube Archivist comes in: By indexing your video collection with metadata from YouTube, you can organize, search and enjoy your archived YouTube videos without hassle offline through a convenient web interface.
If you don't want the indexing and the pretty frontend that's fine, but there's a reason software like Plex is popular.
I'm also not a fun of such overengineered programs, but using raw yt-dlp alone is not enough for replicating full workflow.
Your command is nice for downloading a single video (I also provide a url from clipboard via xclip), but archiving videos daily from a list of favorite channels would require a bit more scripting. Didn't manage to find anything both minimal and popular to link instead.
It doesn't download just a single video – it downloads all your liked videos with some reasonable sorting.
Put your favorite channels' and playlists' URLs into a text file and use the "-a file.txt" flag to batch download. Use "--dateafter {date of 3 days ago}" to download only the latest videos. Adapt as needed.
I sent the video to my friend, but his phone says "/home/trvz/media/youtube/george hotz archive/20251109 - comma ai ｜ COMMA CON 2025 ｜ George Hotz ｜ Outwit, Outplay, Outlast ｜ President [werrvv0MVXQ].webm" was not found. Plz help!
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
