Tubeup - a multi-site video to Archive.org uploader

tubeup uses youtube-dl to download a Youtube video (or any other provider supported by youtube-dl), and then uploads it with all metadata to the Internet Archive.

It was designed by the Bibliotheca Anonoma to archive entire Youtube accounts and playlists to the Internet Archive.

Prerequisites

This script strongly recommends Linux or some sort of POSIX system (such as Mac OS X).

If you are using Windows, we recommend that you run this script in c9.io, which gives you a full Linux development environment with 5GBs of space, on the cloud. It may be possible to run this script on Windows + Python3 with great difficulty, but we don't recommend it.

Python 3 - This script requires python3, which has better integration with Unicode strings.
docopt - The usage documentation can specify command line arguments and options.
youtube-dl - Used to download the videos.
internetarchive - A Python library used to upload videos with their metadata to the Internet Archive.
jsonpatch - For JSON-like things.

Installation

Install avconv or ffmpeg, depending on what your distro prefers. Also install pip3 and git. The script prefers ffmpeg if found but will work with just libav. To install ffmpeg in ubuntu have the Universe repository enabled.

For Debian/Ubuntu:

    sudo apt-get install libav-tools ffmpeg x264 x265 python3-pip git mkvtoolnix

Use pip3 to install the required python3 packages. Python 3.4.2 and up is required, as 3.2 will not work.
```
 sudo -H pip3 install -U pip tubeup
```

Perodically upgrade tubeup and it's dependencies by running:

    sudo -H pip3 install -U tubeup youtube_dl jsonpatch docopt internetarchive requests

Or your entire python install:

    pip3 freeze --local | grep -v '^\-e' | cut -d = -f 1  | xargs -n1 sudo -H pip3 install -U

If you don't already have an Internet Archive account, register for one to give the script upload privileges.
Configure internetarchive with your Internet Archive account. You will be prompted for your username and password. ia configure
Start archiving a video by running the script on a URL. Or multiple URLs at once. Youtube, Dailymotion, anything supported by youtube-dl. For YouTube, this includes account URLs and playlist URLs. ./tubeup
Each archived video gets it's own Archive.org item. Check out what you've uploaded at http://archive.org/details/@yourusername.

Usage

tubeup - Download a video with Youtube-dl, then upload to Internet Archive, passing all metadata.

Usage:
  tubeup <url>... [--metadata=<key:value>...]
  tubeup [--proxy <prox>]
  tubeup -h | --help

Arguments:
  <url>                         Youtube-dl compatible URL to download.
                                Check Youtube-dl documentation for a list
                                of compatible websites.
  -m, --metadata=<key:value>    Custom metadata to add to the archive.org
                                item.

Options:
  -h --help       Show this screen.
  --proxy <prox>  Use a proxy while uploading.

Metadata

You can specify custom metadata with the --metadata flag. For example, this script will upload your video to the [Community Video collection] (https://archive.org/details/opensource_movies) by default. You can specify a different collection with the --metadata flag:

tubeup --metadata=collection:opensource_audio <url>

Any arbitrary metadta can be added to the item, with a few exceptions. You can learn more about archive.org metadata [here] (http://internetarchive.readthedocs.io/en/latest/metadata.html).

Collections

Archive.org users can upload to to four open collections:

[Community Audio] (https://archive.org/details/opensource_audio) where the identifier is opensource_audio.
[Community Software] (https://archive.org/details/open_source_software) where the identifier is opensource_software.
[Community Texts] (https://archive.org/details/opensource) where the identifier is opensource.
[Community Video] (https://archive.org/details/opensource_movies) where the identifier is opensource_movies.

Note that care should be taken when uploading entire channels. Read the appropraite section [in this guide] (https://archive.org/about/faqs.php#Collections) for creating collections, and contact the [collections staff] (mailto: collections-service@archive.org) if you're uploading a channel or multiple channels on one subject (gaming or horticulture for example), they'll create a collection for you or merge any uploaded items based on the Youtube uploader name that are already up into a new collection.

Dumping entire channels into Community Video is abusive and may get your account locked. Talk to the admins first before doing large uploads it's better to ask for guidence or help first than run afowl with the rules.

If you do not own a collection you will need to be added as an admin for that collection if you want to upload to it Talk to the collection owner or staff if you need assistance with this.

Troubleshooting

If you've already downloaded some videos, unless you delete the video youtube-dl will not redownload it and will output nothing.
Obviously, if someone else uploaded the video to the Internet Archive, you will get a permissions error. We don't want duplicates, do we?
Some videos are copyright blocked in certain countries. Use the proxy option to use a proxy to bypass this.

Credits

Which in turn is a fork of emijrp's youtube2internetarchive.py, written in 2012.

This script improves on Matt Hazinski's work by interfacing directly with youtube-dl as a library, rather than functioning as an external script.

License (GPLv3)

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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