u1234x1234 / youtube-sync

YouTube playlists downloader daemon

youtube-sync

• youtube-sync is a containerized daemon that downloads YouTube playlists.

• youtube-sync will check for updates from the listed YouTube playlists every day and download only new items.

• youtube-sync can download any YouTube playlists in a specified format (audio or video).

Essentially, it is Docker containerized yt-dlp (which is fork of youtube-dl), working on a schedule.

Usage

• Create config.yml with the following content:

#Download audio only
- name: tensorflow_channel_audio
  playlist_url: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0rqucBdTuFTjJiefW5t-IQ/videos
  args: --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 # best quality
#or video
- name: tensorflow_channel_video
  playlist_url: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0rqucBdTuFTjJiefW5t-IQ/videos

• Then run docker:

mkdir downloads
docker run --name youtubesync --restart=always -d -v $PWD/downloads:/downloads -v $PWD/config.yml:/config.yml u1234x1234/youtube-sync:1.0.16

All downloads will be available in the local dir downloads.

• To view logs:

docker logs youtubesync

Available usage options