• gayhitler420@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    A lot of fucking nerds are replying to you, but here’s a way I use yt-dlp that’s much more convenient than messing around with weird sites:

    I want to keep local copies of streams from this one channel. I have a folder all the videos go in and when I run yt-dlp, I use the “—download-archive filename.txt” option. When yt-dlp runs on the stream playlist link with that option, it first checks which videos on the list are already downloaded and only gets the ones that aren’t present then adds them to the filename.txt.

    Of course, I don’t run yt-dlp anymore, the computer does it twice a day automatically. If I did, I have another .txt in the directory that has the full command with the playlist link and all the options.

    If you’re making any significant use of weird sites to download stuff from platforms, it’s worth it to learn and use yt-dlp. Feel free to holler at me if you want to get it working.