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I've been using Tube Archivist to archive my YouTube playlists, but I've hit a portability snag. It stores all metadata in its internal database and saves video files with non-readable filenames. This makes the archive unreadable without the software and its database, which defeats the point of long-term archival storage.

Are there any tools that:

  • Archive playlists with human-readable filenames (or let you control the naming scheme)
  • Have an API for queuing archival jobs
  • Store metadata in portable formats (e.g., sidecar JSON or YAML)
  • Don’t require additional software to interpret the archive
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

yt-dlp can archive entire playlists and set names to be based on combinations of channel, date and URL. Probably could get an ai to give you a command that downloads a playlist in your format with your naming scheme then uses wget to get a page archive of the same name or extract said metadata from the page.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

The hard part is in the scripting, the retries, the back off, automation, queuing and queue management...etc

At that point I'm implementing my own bootleg TubeArchivist 😅