youtube-dlp-subscriptions

Downloads new videos from your YouTube subscription feeds since the last run.

Requirements

This script requires python3. Additional dependencies can be found in the requirements.txt file.

Usage (Docker-Compose)

If you are familiar with what docker is, and what docker-compose is to docker, this is the recommended method to use.

Create a subs.xml file inside app/ and populate it with your channels to download from. See subs.sample.xml for an example. See "More on subs.xml" chapter below for more info.

First time only: docker build

Every subsequnt time: docker run

A cron job can be set up to run the process at specified intervals. Be sure to cd into the directory first before running docker run from cron.

sample: every day at 2AM, log stdout/stderr to log as well 0 2 * * * cd /home/darkenvy/git/youtube-dlp-subscriptions && docker-compose up 2>&1 | tee log.txt

Usage (Manual)

Clone the repository

`git clone https://github.com/darkenvy/youtube-dlp-subscriptions`
`cd youtube-dlp-subscriptions/app/`

Install the requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

You will need to generate a xml file and name it subs.xml. See subs.sample.xml for an example. In the past, this file was easily generated, but Google has removed the feature to generate a OMPL file as a means to stop driving traffic away from youtube (and onto newsreaders and the like).

You can then run the script

python3 dl.py

A last.txt file will be created in order to avoid downloading the same videos on the next run.

More on subs.xml

Start with this initial template:

<opml version="1.1">
  <body>
    <outline text="YouTube Subscriptions" title="YouTube Subscriptions">
      <outline title="ANYTHING" type="rss" xmlUrl="https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID" />
    </outline>
  </body>
</opml>

The ONLY factor that must change is the string of CHANNEL_ID. the text ANYTHING is only for self-comments (and is useful for maintaining a long list ;) ).

SyncThink

Syncthing can be set up to sync from the downloads folder onto any other device (such as an android). Quiet useful for long trips without cellular internet (or a data plan).

TODO:

Get rid of the XML entirely now that it is no longer a point-of-convenience. Favor a item list of channel_ids. Perhaps utilize yt-dlp's -a flag, which can take a list and download them. --playlist-end 15 and --dateafter are also useful flags.

Thanks

A thanks to mewfree and https://github.com/mewfree/youtube-dl-subscriptions for the original script and pukkandan for dlp.

SpangleLabs / youtube-dlp-subscriptions