TheFrenchGhosty-s YouTube-DL Scripts

Require youtube-dl : https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl and ffmpeg

The ultimate collection of scripts for YouTube-DL

Usage :

Install youtube-dl and ffmpeg

Create a folder where you want your videos downloaded in a drive where you have Gigabytes/Terabytes of space available

Put the folders Arctive Scripts and Archive Scripts in it (Read the section named Archive and Active Scripts? to understand the difference)

Add content to a 'Source - XXXXXX.txt' file depending of what type of content you want to download (Read the section named Channels, Playlists, Unique Scripts? to understand the difference)

Open a terminal in the folder of the script you want to use

$ ./[SCRIPT].sh

Done

Channels, Playlists and Unique Scripts?

Three different type of scripts are included depending of what you want to download, the only thing changing is the naming scheme

Channels.sh : Made to download everything made by a creator (naming scheme: Uploader/Uploader - 20191231 - Title/Uploader - 20191231 - Title.ext)

Playlists.sh : Made to download playlists made by a creator (naming scheme: PlaylistName - Uploader/20191231 - Title/20191231 - Title.ext)

Uniques.sh : Made to download individual videos made by a creator (naming scheme: Title - Uploader - 20191231/Title - Uploader - 20191231.ext)

Archive and Active Scripts?

Downloading and archiving "live" content is complicated, especially because gigabytes of it will be created each day.

Considering that I chose to separate the content:

Archive Scripts: Scripts that will download everything that was created before December 31, 2018 (included).

Active Scripts: Scripts that will download everything that was created after January 1, 2019 (included).

These dates will need to be incremented every year January 1 and the content created by the active scripts will need to be moved to the archive (including the archive.log that will need to be merged).

Details :

--format "(bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][height>=1080][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9.2][height>=1080][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9][height>=1080][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][height>=1080]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9.2][height>=1080]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9][height>=1080]/bestvideo[height>=1080]/bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][height>=720][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9.2][height>=720][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9][height>=720][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][height>=720]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9.2][height>=720]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9][height>=720]/bestvideo[height>=720]/bestvideo)+(bestaudio[acodec=opus]/bestaudio)/best" : Courtesy of Veloldo, tell youtube-dl to download the best quality available prioritizing the most compressed/recent codecs

--verbose : Tell youtube-dl to print various debugging information

--force-ipv4 : Tell youtube-dl to use IPv4, needed because lots of hosting and VPNs providers don't support IPv6.

--ignore-errors : Tell youtube-dl to continue on download errors (for example to skip unavailable videos in a playlist)

--no-continue : Tell youtube-dl not to resume partially downloaded files and to restart from the beginning (Mainly to avoid corruption)

--no-overwrites : Tell youtube-dl not to overwrite existing files (Useful when metadata has already been downloaded)

--download-archive archive.log : Tell youtube-dl to write every video that has been downloaded in archive.log to automatically skip them next time the script is started

--add-metadata : Tell youtube-dl to write metadata to the video files

--write-description : Tell youtube-dl to write video description to a .description file

--write-info-json : Tell youtube-dl to write video metadata to a .info.json file

--write-annotations : Tell youtube-dl to write video annotations to a .annotations.xml file

--write-thumbnail : Tell youtube-dl to write thumbnail image to disk

--embed-thumbnail : Tell youtube-dl to embed thumbnail in the audio as cover art (only useful when downloading audio-only content like podcast)

--all-subs : Tell youtube-dl to download all the available subtitles of the video

--sub-format "srt" : Tell youtube-dl to prioritize .srt subtitles

--embed-subs : Tell youtube-dl to embed subtitles in the video

(Channels Scripts) --output "%(uploader)s/%(uploader)s - %(upload_date)s - %(title)s/%(uploader)s - %(upload_date)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" : Tell youtube-dl to download the videos in folders and subfolders, using the naming scheme Uploader/Uploader - 20191231 - Title/Uploader - 20191231 - Title.ext

(Playlists Scripts) --output "%(playlist)s (%(uploader)s)/%(upload_date)s - %(title)s/%(upload_date)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" : Tell youtube-dl to download the videos in folders and subfolders, using the naming scheme PlaylistName - Uploader/20191231 - Title/20191231 - Title.ext

(Videos Scripts) --output "%(title)s - %(uploader)s - %(upload_date)s/%(title)s - %(uploader)s - %(upload_date)s.%(ext)s" : Tell youtube-dl to download the videos in folders and subfolders, using the naming scheme Title - Uploader - 20191231/Title - Uploader - 20191231.ext

--merge-output-format "mkv" : Tell youtube-dl to merge the video and audio that were downloaded separately in a .mkv file

(Archive Scripts) --datebefore 20181231 : Tell youtube-dl to download everything that was created before December 31, 2018 (included).

(Active Scripts) --dateafter 20190101 : Tell youtube-dl to download everything that was created after January 1, 2019 (included).

--batch-file "Source - XXXXXX.txt" : Tell youtube-dl to look for links in Source - XXXXXX.txt