lingo / youtubebkp

Backup youtube playlists to a markdown file, in case youtube removes the videos.

Youtube Bkp

Backup youtube playlists to markdown

Usage

node index.js  --apikey API_KEY --channel CHANNEL_ID

# OR, if you've run 'yarn build'
./youtubebkp --apikey API_KEY --channel CHANNEL_ID

API_KEY can be created in the Google API console

CHANNEL_ID can be obtained from the URL in Youtube Profile Menu->Your Channel

Output will be to STDOUT and will be like the following:

## Playlist Title

- [Video title](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID)
- ...

Development

Get started

yarn

Build

The build takes quite a while as it bundles all used node_modules etc into a single javascript file.

yarn build