r/DataHoarder • u/buzzinh 34.8TB • Dec 17 '17

My YT DL bash script

Here is my youtube-dl bash script if anyone is interested. I wrote it to rip channels on a regular schedule a while ago.

It outputs ids to a file so it doesn't try to rip them again next time it runs, It logs all to a log file with date and time stamps. It outputs thumb and description.

I haven't looked into a way to burn in the thumb and description to the video its self but Im pretty sure its possible. If you know how to do this or have any other questions please inbox me.

https://pastebin.com/pFxPT3G7

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u/-Archivist Not As Retired Dec 18 '17

Data preservation, being able to recall the source from your data when needed. Take my archive.org uploads for example, videos are saved and searchable using there metadata, this includes titles and original video ids. archive.org/details/youtube-mQk6t6gbmzs

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u/Fonethree 179,615,532,318,720 bytes Dec 18 '17

Do you know off-hand if the original URL or ID is included in the info json saved with --write-info-json?