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

Put the folders in it

Add content to one 'Source - XXXXXX.txt' files

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

$ ./[SCRIPT].sh

Done

Channels, Playlists, Videos 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 June 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). Why June 1? Because if you increment it in January 1, the active "collections" won't have any content anymore.

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