ytlib

this is a collection of bash scripts to manage a local, offline library of youtube videos. features include:

• automated downloading of videos from a list
• a search engine (using fzf)
• automatically saving channel info ('about' tab, avatar, banner)
• utilities to manage your database, get information about videos
• other utilities (export, getall [videos, channels], get random video)

how to use

dependencies

first of all, install the dependencies:

• yt-dlp (required, duh)
• jq (required)
• curl & wget (required, both used by the channel info downloader)
• fzf (recommended, used by utils/search)
• mpv (recommended, used by utils/search, could also set the PLAYER environment variable before running search)
• 7z (optional, used by utils/export)

usage

then, just run ./dl + any parameters you'd like, see yt-dlp/README.md#usage-and-options for more info.

the recommended way to use this thing is to create a list.txt file in the root of this repo (already added to the .gitignore) and then use ./dl -l list.txt (see here for an example - my own list.txt)

TODO

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