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# Channels Overview and Channel Detail Page
The channels are organized on two different levels, similar to the [playlists](Playlists.md):
## Channels Overview
Accessible at `/channel/` of your Tube Archivist, the **Overview Page** shows a list of all channels you have indexed.
- You can filter that list to show or hide subscribed channels with the toggle. Clicking on the channel banner or the channel name will direct you to the *Channel Detail Page*.
- If you are subscribed to a channel an *Unsubscribe* button will show, if you aren't subscribed, a *Subscribe* button will show instead.
The **Subscribe to Channels** button <img src="/assets/icon-add.png?raw=true" alt="add icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> opens a text field to subscribe to a channel. You have a few options:
- Enter the YouTube channel ID, a 25 character alphanumeric string. Example:
- `UCBa659QWEk1AI4Tg--mrJ2A`
- Enter the URL to the channel page on YouTube. Example:
- `https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBa659QWEk1AI4Tg--mrJ2A` or alias url `https://www.youtube.com/@TomScottGo`
- Enter a channel alias starting with *@*, for example: `@TomScottGo`
- Enter the video URL for any video and let Tube Archivist extract the channel ID for you, for example `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y`
- If you want to subscribe to more than one channel directly, you can add one channel per line in the text field
To search your channels, click on the search icon <img src="/assets/icon-search.png?raw=true" alt="search icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> to reach the search page. Start your query with `channel:`, learn more on the [search](Search.md) page.
## Channel Detail
Each channel gets a set of channel detail pages.
- If you are subscribed to the channel, an *Unsubscribe* button will show, else the *Subscribe* button will show.
- The **Mark as Watched** button will mark all videos of this channel as watched.
### Videos
Accessible at `/channel/<channel-id>/`, this page shows all the videos you have downloaded from this channel.
### Streams
If you have any streams indexed, this page will become accessible at `/channel/<channel-id>/streams/`, this page shows all available live streams of that channel.
### Shorts
If you have any shorts videos indexed, this page will become accessible at `/channel/<channel-id>/shorts/`, this page shows all the shorts videos of that channel.
### Playlists
If you have playlists from this channel indexed, this page will become accessible at `/channel/<channel-id>/playlist/`. Activate channel playlist indexing on the about page.
### About
On the *Channel About* page, accessible at `/channel/<channel-id>/about/`, you can see additional metadata.
- The button **Delete Channel** will delete the channel plus all videos of this channel, both media files and metadata additionally this will also delete playlists metadata belonging to that channel.
- The button **Reindex** will reindex all channel metadata. This will also categorize existing videos as shorts or streams.
- The button **Reindex Videos** will reindex metadata for all videos in this channel.
The channel customize form gives options to change settings on a per channel basis. Any configurations here will overwrite your configurations from the [settings](Settings.md) page.
- **Download Format**: Overwrite the download quality for videos from this channel.
- **Auto Delete**: Automatically delete watched videos from this channel after selected days.
- **Index Playlists**: Automatically add all Playlists with at least a video downloaded to your index. Only do this for channels where you care about playlists as this will slow down indexing new videos for having to check which playlist this belongs to.
- **SponsorBlock**: Using [SponsorBlock](https://sponsor.ajay.app/) to get and skip sponsored content. Customize per channel: You can *disable* or *enable* SponsorBlock for certain channels only to overwrite the behavior set on the [settings](Settings.md) page. Selecting *unset* will remove the overwrite and your setting will fall back to the default on the settings page.
### Downloads
If you have any videos from this channel pending in the download queue, a *Downloads* link will show, bringing you directly to the [downloads](Downloads.md) page, filtering the list by the selected channel.

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# Downloads Page
Accessible at `/downloads/` of your Tube Archivist, this page handles all the download functionality.
## Rescan Subscriptions
The **Rescan Subscriptions** icon <img src="/assets/icon-rescan.png?raw=true" alt="rescan icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> will start a background task to look for new videos from the channels and playlists you are subscribed to.
Tube Archivist will get available *videos*, *shorts* and *streams* from each channel, you can define the channel and playlist page size on the [settings page](Settings.md#subscriptions). With the default page size, expect this process to take around 2-3 seconds for each channel or playlist you are subscribed to. A status message will show the progress.
Then for every video found, **Tube Archivist** will skip the video if it has already been downloaded or if you added it to the *ignored* list before. All the other videos will get added to the download queue. Expect this to take around 2 seconds for each video as **Tube Archivist** needs to grab some additional metadata and artwork. New videos will get added at the bottom of the download queue.
## Download Queue
The **Start Download** icon <img src="/assets/icon-download.png?raw=true" alt="download icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> will start the download process starting from the top of the queue. Take a look at the relevant settings on the [Settings Page](Settings.md#downloads). Once the process started, a progress message will show with additional details and controls:
- The stop icon <img src="/assets/icon-stop.png?raw=true" alt="stop icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> will gracefully stop the download process, once the current video has been finished successfully.
- The cancel icon <img src="/assets/icon-close-red.png?raw=true" alt="close icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> is equivalent to killing the process and will stop the download immediately. Any leftover files will get deleted, the canceled video will still be available in the download queue.
After downloading, Tube Archivist tries to add new videos to already indexed playlists and if activated on the settings page, get comments for the new videos.
## Add to Download Queue
The **Add to Download Queue** icon <img src="/assets/icon-add.png?raw=true" alt="add icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> opens a text field to manually add videos to the download queue. Add one item per line. You have a few options:
### Videos
- Add a YouTube video ID, for example `2tdiKTSdE9Y`
- Add a link to a YouTube video, for example `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y`
- Add a link to a YouTube video by providing the shortened URL, for example `https://youtu.be/2tdiKTSdE9Y`
- Add a link to a shorts video, for example `https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UOfe6e0k7cQ`
### Channels
- When adding a channel, Tube Archivist will ignore the channel page size as described above, this is meant for an initial download of the whole channel. You can still ignore selected videos from the queue before starting the download.
- Download a complete channel including shorts and streams by entering:
- Channel ID: `UCBa659QWEk1AI4Tg--mrJ2A`
- Channel URL: `https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBa659QWEk1AI4Tg--mrJ2A`
- Channel `@` alias handle: For example `@TomScottGo`
- Channel alias URL: `https://www.youtube.com/@TomScottGo`
- Download videos, live streams or shorts only, by providing a partial channel URL:
- Videos only: `https://www.youtube.com/@IBRACORP/videos`
- Shorts only: `https://www.youtube.com/@IBRACORP/shorts`
- Streams only: `https://www.youtube.com/@IBRACORP/streams`
- Every other channel sub page will default to download all, for example `https://www.youtube.com/@IBRACORP/featured` will download videos and shorts and streams.
### Playlist
- Add a playlist ID or URL to add every available video in the list to the download queue, for example `https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL96C35uN7xGLLeET0dOWaKHkAlPsrkcha` or `PL96C35uN7xGLLeET0dOWaKHkAlPsrkcha`.
- When adding a playlist to the queue, this playlist will automatically get [indexed](Playlists.md#playlist-detail).
- When you add a link to a video in a playlist, Tube Archivist assumes you want to download only the specific video and not the whole playlist, for example `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CINVwWHlzTY&list=PL96C35uN7xGLLeET0dOWaKHkAlPsrkcha` will only add one video, `CINVwWHlzTY`, to the queue.
## The Download Queue
Below the three buttons you find the download queue. New items will get added at the bottom of the queue, the next video to download once you click on **Start Download** will be the first in the list.
You can filter the download queue with the **filter** dropdown box, the filter will show once you have more than one channel in the download queue. Select the channel to filter by name, the number in parentheses indicates how many videos you have pending from this channel. Reset the filter by selecting *all* from the dropdown. This will generate links for the top 30 channels with pending videos.
Every video in the download queue has two buttons:
- **Ignore**: This will remove that video from the download queue and this video will not get added again, even when you **Rescan Subscriptions**.
- **Download now**: This will give priority to this video. If the download process is already running, the prioritized video will get downloaded as soon as the current video is finished. If there is no download process running, this will start downloading this single video and stop after that.
You can flip the view by activating **Show Only Ignored Videos**. This will show all videos you have previously *ignored*.
Every video in the ignored list has two buttons:
- **Forget**: This will delete the item from the ignored list.
- **Add to Queue**: This will add the ignored video back to the download queue.
You can delete your download queue from the [Settings](Settings.md#actions) page.

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# Frequently Asked Questions
## Scope of this project
Tube Archivist is *Your self hosted YouTube media server*, which also defines the primary scope of what this project tries to do:
- **Self hosted**: This assumes you have full control over the underlying operating system and hardware and can configure things to work properly with Docker, it's volumes and networks as well as whatever disk storage and filesystem you choose to use.
- **YouTube**: Downloading, indexing and playing videos from YouTube, there are currently no plans to expand this to any additional platforms.
- **Media server**: This project tries to be a stand alone media server in it's own web interface.
Additionally to that, progress is also happening on:
- **API**: Endpoints for additional integrations.
- **Browser Extension**: To integrate between youtube.com and Tube Archivist.
Defining the scope is important for the success of any project:
- A scope too broad will result in development effort spreading too thin and will run into danger that his project tries to do too many things and none of them well.
- A too narrow scope will make this project uninteresting and will exclude audiences that could also benefit from this project.
- Not defining a scope will easily lead to misunderstandings and false hopes of where this project tries to go.
Of course this is subject to change: The scope can be expanded as this project continues to grow and more people contribute.
## Emby/Plex/Jellyfin/Kodi integrations
Although there are similarities between these excellent projects and Tube Archivist, they have a very different use case. Trying to fit the metadata relations and database structure of a YouTube archival project into these media servers that specialize in Movies and TV shows is always going to be limiting.
Part of the scope is to be its own media server, so that's where the focus and effort of this project is. That being said, the nature of self hosted and open source software gives you all the possible freedom to use your media as you wish.
## To Docker or not to Docker
This project is a classical docker application: There are multiple moving parts that need to be able to interact with each other and need to be compatible with multiple architectures and operating systems. Additionally Docker also drastically reduces development complexity which is highly appreciated.
So Docker is the only supported installation method. If you don't have any experience with Docker, consider investing the time to learn this very useful technology.
## Finetuning Elasticsearch
A minimal configuration of Elasticsearch (ES) is provided in the example docker-compose.yml file. ES is highly configurable and very interesting to learn more about. Refer to the [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html) if you want to get into it.
## When I subscribe to a channel it only downloads the most recent 50 videos
Subscribing to a channel is a different operation from downloading it. You can [add the channel to the download queue](https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist/wiki/Downloads#add-to-download-queue) to download all past videos.
**If you want to download the existing videos and also automatically download new videos, then you should both download the channel and subscribe to it.**

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# Detailed Installation Instructions
NOTE: To install Tube Archivist using Docker, the default method, please see the [project README for instructions](https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist#installing-and-updating).
---
## Additional platforms
These are beginner's guides/installation instructions for additional platforms generously provided by users of these platforms. When in doubt, verify the details with the [project README](https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist#installing-and-updating). If you see any issues here while using these instructions, please contribute.
## Podman
Podman handles container hostname resolving slightly differently than docker, so you need to make a few changes to the `docker-compose.yml` to get up and running.
### Follow the installation instructions from the [README](https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist#installing-and-updating), with a few additional changes to the `docker-compose.yml`.
Edit these additional changes to the `docker-compose.yml`:
- under `tubearchivist`->`image`:
- prefix the container name with `docker.io/` (or the url of your repo of choice).
- under `tubearchivist`->`environment`:
- `ES_URL`: change `archivist-es` to the internal IP of the computer that will be running the containers.
- `REDIS_HOST`: change `archivist-redis` to the internal IP of the computer that will be running the containers (should be the same as above).
- under `archivist-redis`->`image`:
- prefix the container name with `docker.io/` again.
- under `archivist-redis`->`expose`:
- change the whole entry from `expose: ["<PORT>"]` into `ports: ["<PORT>:<PORT>"].
- under `archivist-es`->`image`:
- prefix the container name with `docker.io/` again.
- under `archivist-es`->`expose`:
- change the whole entry from `expose: ["<PORT>"]` into `ports: ["<PORT>:<PORT>"].
### Create service files (optional)
Since podman doesn't run as a service, it can't start containers after reboots, at least not without some help.
If you want to enable this behavior, you can follow [this example](https://techblog.jeppson.org/2020/04/create-podman-services-with-podman-compose/) to have `systemd` start up the containers with `podman-compose` when the computer boots up.
---
## Unraid
Tube Archivist, and all if it's dependencies are located in the [community applications](https://unraid.net/community/apps?q=tubearchivist) store. The three containers you will need are as follows:
- **TubeArchivist-RedisJSON**: This container acts as a cache and temporary link between the application and the file system. Used to store and display messages and configuration variables.
- **TubeArchivist-ES**: ElasticSearch stores video metadata and makes everything searchable. Also keeps track of the download queue.
- **TubeArchivist**: Once your YouTube video collection grows, it becomes hard to search and find a specific video. That's where Tube Archivist comes in: By indexing your video collection with metadata from YouTube, you can organize, search and enjoy your archived YouTube videos without hassle offline through a convenient web interface.
### Install `TubeArchivist-RedisJSON`
![TubeArchivist-RedisJSON](https://i.imgur.com/ZKc8pSK.png)
This is the easiest container to setup of the thee, just make sure that you do not have any port conflicts, and that your `/data` is mounted to the correct path. The other containers will map to the same root directory (/mnt/user/appdata/TubeArchivist).
If you need to install `TubeArchivist-RedisJSON`on a different port, you'll have to follow [these steps](https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist#redis-on-a-custom-port) later on when installing the `TubeArchivist` container
### Install `TubeArchivist-ES`
![TubeArchivist-ES](https://i.imgur.com/RC38b3u.png)
ElasticSeach is also pretty easy to setup. Again, make sure you have no port conflicts, make sure that you mapped the ElasticSearch Data to the same root directory as `RedisJSON` (/mnt/user/appdata/TubeArchivist), and make sure to change the default password to something more secure.
There is four additional settings in the "show more settings" area, but don't require any changes.
### Install `TubeArchivist`
![TubeArchivist](https://i.imgur.com/oLsmwBZ.png)
It's finally time to set up TubeArchivist!
- `HOST:`This is a list of IP addresses that you will host TA from. Example, 192.168.0.14 is the IP address of my Unraid server. If I was going to access TA from a VPN, or domain name, I'd put those next to my host IP with just a space separating the different addresses. More information [here.](https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist#installing-and-updating)
- `Port:`Again, make sure that you have no port conflicts on 8000.
- `Youtube Media Path:` is where you'll download all of your videos to.
Make sure that this is an empty directory to not cause confusion when
starting the application. If you have existing videos that you'd like
to import into Tube Archivist, please checkout the [settings
wiki.](https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist/wiki/Settings#manual-media-files-import)
- `Appdata:` This should be the same base path as the other two containers (/mnt/user/appdata/TubeArchivist).
- `TA Username:`This will be your username for TubeArchivist.
- `TA Password:`This will be your password for TubeArchivist.
- `Redis` This will be JUST the ip address of your redis container.
- `ElasticSearch Password:`This is the password you defined in the `TubeArchivist-ES` container.
- `ElasticSearch:` This seems to cause some confusion, but it's a pretty simple step, just replace the IP and Port to match you `TubeArchivist-ES` container.
(example: if your IP is 192.168.0.14, the value should be http://192.168.0.14:9200)
- `Time Zone:` This is an important step for your scheduler, to find your timezone, use a site like [TimeZoneConverter](http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/findzone.tzc)
**From there, you should be able to start up your containers and you're good to go!**
If you're still having trouble, join us on [discord](https://www.tubearchivist.com/discord) and come to the #support channel.
---
## Truenas Scale
Truenas Scale can be a bit confusing, with its k3s kubernetes implementation.
However, there is a step by step guide available for it's users here:
https://heavysetup.info/applications/tube-archivist/dataset/
- Ensure you are navigating the columns under `Tube Archivist` on the left hand side of the screen
---
## Synology
There are several different methods to install TubeArchivist on Synology platforms. This will focus on the available `docker` package and `docker-compose` implementations.
### Prepare Directories/Folders
Before we setup TubeArchivist, we need to setup the directories/folders. You are assumed to be logged into the Synology NAS.
#### 1. Docker Base Folder
1. Open the `File Station` utility.
2. Click on the **Create🔽** button and choose *Create New Shared Folder*.
3. **Name** the folder "Docker".
4. Add a **Description**.
5. Select the **Volume Location**.
> Note: By default, this will be where all data is stored. Change the folders as best meets your requirements.
6. Select the appropriate options from the remaining checkbox configurations.
![Synology - Create Docker Folder](assets/Synology_0.2.0_Docker-Folder-Create.png)
7. Click the **Next** button.
8. If you are going to **Encrypt** your folder, check the appropriate box and provide the Encryption Key and its confirmation.
9. Click the **Next** button.
10. On the **Advanced Settings** page, you can select the *Enable data checksum for advanced data integrity* setting. This may cause a performance impact, but will allow for potential file self-healing. **This cannot be changed later.**
> Note: This is not recommended, as we will be hosting databases within this folder.
11. If you are enabling a quota for how large the folder can get, you can select the *Enabled shared folder quota* setting and choose the maximum size this folder can grow. This can be changed later.
12. Click the **Next** button.
13. Confirm the settings, then click the **Apply** button. This will create the folder.
#### 2. TubeArchivist Base Folder
1. Open the `File Station` utility.
2. Select the "Docker" folder on the left-hand side.
3. Click on the `Create🔽` button and choose *create Folder*.
4. **Name** the folder "TubeArchivist".
#### 3. Redis Data
1. Open the `File Station` utility.
2. Select the "Docker" folder on the left-hand side.
3. Select the "TubeArchivist" folder beneath "Docker".
4. Click on the `Create🔽` button and choose *create Folder*.
5. **Name** the folder "redis".
#### 4. Elastic Search Data
1. Open the `File Station` utility.
2. Select the "Docker" folder on the left-hand side.
3. Select the "TubeArchivist" folder beneath "Docker".
4. Click on the `Create🔽` button and choose *create Folder*.
5. **Name** the folder "es".
#### 5. TubeArchivist Cache
1. Open the `File Station` utility.
2. Select the "Docker" folder on the left-hand side.
3. Select the "TubeArchivist" folder beneath "Docker".
4. Click on the `Create🔽` button and choose *create Folder*.
5. **Name** the folder "cache".
#### 6. TubeArchivist Output
1. Open the `File Station` utility.
2. Select the "Docker" folder on the left-hand side.
3. Select the "TubeArchivist" folder beneath "Docker".
4. Click on the `Create🔽` button and choose *create Folder*.
5. **Name** the folder "media".
#### 7. Confirm Folder Structure
Once all of the folders have been created, it should have a folder structure within Docker\TubeArchivist that includes "cache", "es", "media", and "redis" folders.
![Synology - Docker Folder Structure](assets/Synology_0.2.0_Docker-Folder-Structure.png)
#### 8. Change Permissions - CLI Required
> If you do not have SSH access enabled for CLI, [enable it](https://kb.synology.com/en-sg/DSM/tutorial/How_to_login_to_DSM_with_root_permission_via_SSH_Telnet) before continuing.
1. Open the SSH connection to the Synology. Login as your primary `Admin` user, or the user that was enabled for SSH access.
2. Elevate your access to `root`. Steps are provided [here](https://kb.synology.com/en-sg/DSM/tutorial/How_to_login_to_DSM_with_root_permission_via_SSH_Telnet).
3. Change directories to the **Volume** where the "Docker" folder resides.
</br>Example: `cd /volume1`
4. Change directories to the "Docker" folder.
</br>Example: `cd Docker`
5. Change directories to the "TubeArchivist" folder.
</br>Example: `cd TubeArchivist`
6. Change the owner of the "redis" folder. *If correct, this does not have an output.*
</br>Example: `chown 999:100 redis`
7. Change the owner of the "es" folder. *If correct, this does not have an output.*
</br>Example: `chown 1000:1000 es`
8. Confirm that the folders have the correct permissions.
</br>Example: `ls -hl`
![Synology - Docker Folder Permissions Command](assets/Synology_0.2.0_Docker-Folder-Permissions-Commands.png)
9. Logout from root.
</br>Example: `logout`
10. Disconnect from the SSH connection.
</br>Example: `exit`
### Synology Docker Setup
#### 1. Install Docker
1. Install the `Docker` Synology Package.
1. Log in to your Synology NAS.
2. Open the `Package Center` utility.
3. Search for `Docker`.
4. Click `Install`.
![Synology - Install Docker Utility](assets/Synology_0.2.0_Docker-Install.png)
#### 2. Install Docker images
2. After `Docker` is installed, open the `Docker` utility.
3. Go to the `Registry` tab.
4. Search for the following `images` and download them. Follow the recommended versions for each of the images.
- `redislabs/rejson`
![Synology - Redis Image Search](assets/Synology_0.2.0_Docker-Redis-Search.png)
- `bbilly1/tubearchivist-es`
![Synology - ElasticSearch Image Search](assets/Synology_0.2.0_Docker-ES-Search.png)
- `bbilly1/tubearchivist`
![Synology - TubeArchivist Image Search](assets/Synology_0.2.0_Docker-TA-Search.png)
#### 3. Configure ElasticSearch
5. Go to the `Image` tab. From here, create an container based on each image with the associated configurations below.
- ElasticSearch
1. Select the associated image.
2. Click the **Launch** button in the top.
3. Edit the **Container Name** to be "tubearchivist-es".
4. Click on the **Advanced Settings** button.
5. In the **Advanced Settings** tab, check the box for `Enable auto-restart`.
6. In the **Volume** tab, click the **Add Folder** button and select the "Docker/TubeArchivist/es" folder, then type in `/usr/share/elasticsearch/data` for the mount path.
7. In the **Network** tab, leave the default `bridge` Network (unless you have a specific Network design that you know how to implement).
8. In the **Port Settings** tab, replace the "Auto" entry under **Local Port** with the port that will be used to connect to ElasticSearch (default is 9200).
9. In the **Port Settings** tab, select the entryline for port 9300 and ** delete** the line. It is not needed for this container.
10. The **Links** tab does not require configuration for this container.
11. In the **Environment** tab, add in the following ElasticSearch specific environment variables that may apply.
- `discovery.type=single-node`
- `ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m`
- `UID=1000`
- `GID=0`
- `xpack.security.enabled=true`
- `ELASTIC_PASSWORD=verysecret`
- `path.repo=/usr/share/elasticsearch/data/snapshot`
> NOTE: Do not use the default password as it is very insecure.
> Activating snapshots for backups should only be done *after* setting the `path.repo` setting.
![Synology - ElasticSearch Environment Configurations](assets/Synology_0.2.0_Docker-ES-Env-Conf.png)
12. Click on the **Apply** button.
13. Back on the **Create Container** screen, click the **Next** button.
14. Review the settings to confirm, then click the **Apply** button.
#### 4. Configure Redis
1. Select the associated image.
2. Click the **Launch** button in the top.
3. Edit the **Container Name** to be "tubearchivist-redis".
4. Click on the **Advanced Settings** button.
5. In the **Advanced Settings** tab, check the box for `Enable auto-restart`.
6. In the **Volume** tab, click the **Add Folder** button and select the "Docker/TubeArchivist/redis" folder, then type in `/data` for the mount path.
7. In the **Network** tab, leave the default `bridge` Network (unless you have a specific Network design that you know how to implement).
8. In the **Port Settings** tab, replace the "Auto" entry under **Local Port** with the port that will be used to connect to Redis (default is 6379).
9. In the **Links** tab, select the "tubearchivist-es" container from the **Container Name** dropdown and provide it the same alias, "tubearchivist-es".
10. In the **Environment** tab, add in any Redis specific environment variables that may apply (none by default).
11. Click on the **Apply** button.
12. Back on the **Create Container** screen, click the **Next** button.
13. Review the settings to confirm, then click the **Apply** button.
#### 5. Configure TubeArchivist
1. Select the associated image.
2. Click the **Launch** button in the top.
3. Edit the **Container Name** to be "tubearchivist".
4. Click on the **Advanced Settings** button.
5. In the **Advanced Settings** tab, check the box for `Enable auto-restart`.
6. In the **Volume** tab, click the **Add Folder** button and select the "Docker/TubeArchivist/cache" folder, then type in `/cache` for the mount path.
7. In the **Volume** tab, click the **Add Folder** button and select the "Docker/TubeArchivist/media" folder, then type in `/youtube` for the mount path.
8. In the **Network** tab, leave the default `bridge` Network (unless you have a specific Network design that you know how to implement).
9. In the **Port Settings** tab, replace the "Auto" entry under **Local Port** with the port that will be used to connect to TubeArchivist (default is 8000).
10. In the **Links** tab, select the "tubearchivist-es" container from the **Container Name** dropdown and provide it the same alias, "tubearchivist-es".
11. In the **Links** tab, select the "tubearchivist-redis" container from the **Container Name** dropdown and provide it the same alias, "tubearchivist-redis".
12. In the **Environment** tab, add in the following TubeArchivist specific environment variables that may apply. **Change the variables as-is appropriate to your use case. Follow the [README section](https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist#tube-archivist) for details on what to set each variable.**
- `TA_HOST=synology.local`
- `ES_URL=http://tubearchivist-es:9200`
- `REDIS_HOST=tubearchivist-redis`
- `HOST_UID=1000`
- `HOST_GID=1000`
- `TA_USERNAME=tubearchivist`
- `TA_PASSWORD=verysecret`
- `ELASTIC_PASSWORD=verysecret`
- `TZ=America/New_York`
> NOTE: Do not use the default password as it is very insecure.
> Ensure that ELASTIC_PASSWORD matches the password used on the tubearchivist-es container.
![Synology - TubeArchivist Environment Configurations](assets/Synology_0.2.0_Docker-TA-Env-Conf.png)
13. Click on the **Apply** button.
14. Back on the **Create Container** screen, click the **Next** button.
15. Review the settings to confirm, then click the **Apply** button.
6. After the containers have been configured and started, you can go to the **Container** tab and monitor the containers.
7. To review the logs to ensure that the system has started successfully, select the "tubearchivist" container and click on the **Details** button. In the new window, go to the **Log** tab. Monitor the logs until either an error occurs or the message `celery@tubearchivist ready.` is in the logs. This may take a few minutes, especially for a first time setup.
> Note: Synology Docker presents the logs in a pagination format. If you are not seeing the logs update, check if there are additional pages.
8. After it has started, go to the location in the `TA_HOST`. This should give you the standard TubeArchivist login screen.
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**From there, you should be able to start up your containers and you're good to go!**
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# Playlist Overview and Playlist Detail Page
The playlists are organized in two different levels, similar as the [channels](Channels):
## Playlist Overview
Accessible at `/playlist/` of your Tube Archivist, this **Overview Page** shows a list of all playlists you have indexed over all your channels.
- You can filter that list to show only subscribed to playlists with the toggle.
You can index playlists of a channel from the channel detail page as described [here](Channels#channel-detail).
The **Subscribe to Playlist** button <img src="/assets/icon-add.png?raw=true" alt="add icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> opens a text field to subscribe to playlists. You have a few options:
- Enter the YouTube playlist id, for example:
- `PL96C35uN7xGLLeET0dOWaKHkAlPsrkcha`
- Enter the Youtube dedicated playlist url, for example:
- `https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL96C35uN7xGLLeET0dOWaKHkAlPsrkcha`
- If you want to subscribe to more than one playlist directly, you can add one playlist per line in the text field
NOTE: It doesn't make sense to subscribe to a playlist if you are already subscribed the corresponding channel as this will slow down the **Rescan Subscriptions** [task](Downloads.md#rescan-subscriptions).
You can search your indexed playlists by clicking on the search icon <img src="/assets/icon-search.png?raw=true" alt="search icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;">. This will open a dedicated page.
## Playlist Detail
Each playlist will get a dedicated playlist detail page accessible at `/playlist/<playlist-id>/` of your Tube Archivist. This page shows all the videos you have downloaded from this playlist.
- If you are subscribed to the playlist, an Unsubscribe button will show, else the Subscribe button will show.
- The **Mark as Watched** button will mark all videos of this playlist as watched.
- The button **Reindex** will reindex the playlist metadata.
- The button **Reindex Videos** will reindex all videos from this playlist.
- The **Delete Playlist** button will give you the option to delete just the *metadata* which won't delete any media files or *delete all* which will delete metadata plus all videos belonging to this playlist.

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# Search Page
Accessible at `/search/` of your **Tube Archivist**, search your archive for Videos, Channels and Playlists - or even full text search throughout your indexed subtitles.
Just start typing to start a **simple** search *or* **start your query with a primary keyword** to search for a specific type and narrow down the result with secondary keywords. Secondary keywords can be in any order. Use *yes* or *no* for boolean values.
- This will return 30 results per query, pagination is not implemented yet.
- All your queries are case insensitive and are normalized to lowercase.
- All your queries are analyzed for the english language, this means *singular*, *plural* and word variations like *-ing*, *-ed*, *-able* etc are treated as synonyms.
- Keyword value parsing begins with the `keyword:` name all the way until the end of query or the next keyword, e.g. in `video:learn python channel:corey`, the keyword `video` has value `learn python`.
Fuzzy search is activated for all your searches by default. This can catch typos in your queries or in the matching documents with one to two letters difference, depending on the query length. You can configure fuzziness with the secondary keyword `fuzzy:`, e.g:
- `fuzzy:0` or `fuzzy:no`: Deactivate fuzzy matching.
- `fuzzy:1`: Set fuzziness to one letter difference.
- `fuzzy:2`: Set fuzziness to two letters difference.
- All text searches are ranked, meaning the better a match the higher ranked the result. Unless otherwise stated, queries with multiple words are processed with the `and` operator, meaning all words need to match so each word will narrow down the result.
## Simple
Start your query without a keyword to make a simple query (primary keyword `simple:` is implied). This will search in *video titles*, *channel names* and *playlist titles* and will return matching videos, channels and playlists. Keyword searches will return more results in a particular category due to the fact that more fields are searched for matches. Simple queries do not have any secondary keywords.
## Video
Start your query with the **primary keyword** `video:` to search for videos only. This will search through the *video titles*, *tags* and *category* fields. Narrow your search down with secondary keywords:
- `channel:` search for videos matching the channel name.
- `active:` is a boolean value, to search for videos that are still active on youtube or that are not active any more.
**Example**:
- `video:learn python channel:corey schafer active:yes`
- This will return all videos with the term *Learn Python* from the channel *Corey Schafer* that are still *Active* on YouTube.
- `video: channel:tom scott active:no`
- Note the omitted term after the primary key, this will show all videos from the channel *Tom Scott* that are no longer active on YouTube.
## Channel
Start with the `channel:` **primary keyword** to search for channels matching your query. This will search through the *channel name* and *channel description* fields. Narrow your search down with secondary keywords:
- `subscribed:` is a boolean value, search for channels that you are subscribed to or not.
- `active:` is a boolean value, to search for channels that are still active on YouTube or that are no longer active.
**Example**:
- `channel:linux subscribed:yes`: Search for channels with the term *Linux* that you are subscribed to.
- `channel: active:no`: Note the omitted term after the primary key, this will return all channels that are no longer active on YouTube.
## Playlist
Start your query with the **primary keyword** `playlist:` to search for playlists only. This will search through the *playlist title* and *playlist description* fields. Narrow down your search with these secondary keywords:
- `subscribed`: is a boolean value, search for playlists that you are subscribed to or not.
- `active:` is a boolean value, to search for playlists that are still active on YouTube or that are no longer active.
**Example**:
- `playlist:backend engineering subscribed:yes`: Search for playlists about *Backend Engineering* that you are subscribed to.
- `playlist: active:yes subscribed:yes`: Note the omitted primary search term, this will return all playlists active on YouTube that you are subscribed to.
- `playlist:html css active:yes`: Search for playlists containing *HTML CSS* that are still active on YouTube.
## Full
Start a full text search by beginning your query with the **primary keyword** `full:`. This will search through your indexed Subtitles showing segments with possible matches. This will only show any results if you have activated *subtitle download and index* on the settings page. The operator for full text searches is `or` meaning when searching for multiple words not all words need to match, but additional words will change the ranking of the result, the more words match and the better they match, the higher ranked the result. The matching words will get highlighted in the text preview.
Clicking the play button on the thumbnail will open the inplace player at the timestamp from where the segment starts. Same when clicking the video title, this will open the video page and put the player at the segment timestamp. This will overwrite any previous playback position.
Narrow down your search with these secondary keywords:
- `lang`: Search for matches only within a language. Use the same two letter ISO country code as you have set on the settings page.
- `source`: Can either be *auto* to search through auto generated subtitles only or *user* to search through user uploaded subtitles only.
**Example**:
- `full:contribute to open source lang:en` search for subtitle segments matching with the words *Contribute to Open Source* in the language *en*.
- `full:flight simulator cockpit source:user` to search for the words *Flight Simulator Cockpit* from *user* uploaded subtitle segments.

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# Settings Page
Accessible at `/settings/` of your **Tube Archivist**, this page holds all the configurations and additional functionality related to the database.
Click on **Update Settings** at the bottom of the form to apply your configurations.
## Color scheme
Switch between the easy on the eyes dark theme and the burning bright theme.
## Archive View
- **Page Size**: Defines how many results get displayed on a given page. Same value goes for all archive views.
## Subscriptions
Settings related to the channel management. Disable shorts or streams by setting their page size to 0 (zero).
- **Channel Page Size**: Defines how many pages will get analyzed by **Tube Archivist** each time you click on *Rescan Subscriptions*. The default page size used by yt-dlp is **50**, that's also the recommended value to set here. Any value higher will slow down the rescan process, for example if you set the value to 51, that means yt-dlp will have to go through 2 pages of results instead of 1 and by that doubling the time that process takes.
- **Live Page Size**: Same as above, but for channel live streams.
- **Shorts page Size**: Same as above, but for shorts videos.
## Downloads
Settings related to the download process.
- **Download Limit**: Stop the download process after downloading the set quantity of videos.
- **Download Speed Limit**: Set your download speed limit in KB/s. This will pass the option `--limit-rate` to yt-dlp.
- **Throttled Rate Limit**: Restart download if the download speed drops below this value in KB/s. This will pass the option `--throttled-rate` to yt-dlp. Using this option might have a negative effect if you have an unstable or slow internet connection.
- **Sleep Interval**: Time in seconds to sleep between requests to YouTube. It's a good idea to set this to **3** seconds. Might be necessary to avoid throttling.
- **Auto Delete Watched Videos**: Automatically delete videos marked as watched after selected days. If activated, checks your videos after download task is finished.
## Download Format
Additional settings passed to yt-dlp.
- **Format**: This controls which streams get downloaded and is equivalent to passing `--format` to yt-dlp. Use one of the recommended one or look at the documentation of [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#format-selection). Please note: The option `--merge-output-format mp4` is automatically passed to yt-dlp to guarantee browser compatibility. Similar to that, `--check-formats` is passed as well to check that the selected formats are actually downloadable.
- **Embed Metadata**: This saves the available tags directly into the media file by passing `--embed-metadata` to yt-dlp.
- **Embed Thumbnail**: This will save the thumbnail into the media file by passing `--embed-thumbnail` to yt-dlp.
## Subtitles
- **Download Setting**: Select the subtitle language you like to download. Add a comma separated list for multiple languages.
- **Source Settings**: User created subtitles are provided from the uploader and are usually the video script. Auto generated is from YouTube, quality varies, particularly for auto translated tracks.
- **Index Settings**: Enabling subtitle indexing will add the lines to Elasticsearch and will make subtitles searchable. This will increase the index size and is not recommended on low-end hardware.
## Comments
- **Download and index comments**: Set your configuration for downloading and indexing comments. This takes the same values as documented in the `max_comments` section for the youtube extractor of [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#youtube). Add without space between the four different fields: *max-comments,max-parents,max-replies,max-replies-per-thread*. Example:
- `all,100,all,30`: Get 100 max-parents and 30 max-replies-per-thread.
- `1000,all,all,50`: Get a total of 1000 comments over all, 50 replies per thread.
- **Comment sort method**: Change sort method between *top* or *new*. The default is *top*, as decided by YouTube.
- The [Refresh Metadata](#refresh-metadata) background task will get comments from your already archived videos, spreading the requests out over time.
Archiving comments is slow as only very few comments get returned per request with yt-dlp. Choose your configuration above wisely. Tube Archivist will download comments after the download queue finishes, your videos will be already available while the comments are getting downloaded.
## Cookie
Importing your YouTube Cookie into Tube Archivist allows yt-dlp to bypass age restrictions, gives access to private videos and your *watch later* or *liked videos*.
### Security concerns
Cookies are used to store your session and contain your access token to your google account, this information can be used to take over your account. Treat that data with utmost care as you would any other password or credential. *Tube Archivist* stores your cookie in Redis and will automatically append it to yt-dlp for every request.
### Auto import
Easiest way to import your cookie is to use the **Tube Archivist Companion** [browser extension](https://github.com/tubearchivist/browser-extension) for Firefox and Chrome.
### Manual import
Alternatively you can also manually import your cookie into Tube Archivist. Export your cookie as a *Netscape* formatted text file, name it *cookies.google.txt* and put it into the *cache/import* folder. After that you can enable the option on the settings page and your cookie file will get imported.
- There are various tools out there that allow you to export cookies from your browser. This project doesn't make any specific recommendations.
- Once imported, a **Validate Cookie File** button will show, where you can confirm if your cookie is working or not.
### Use your cookie
Once imported, additionally to the advantages above, your [Watch Later](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=WL) and [Liked Videos](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=LL) become a regular playlist you can download and subscribe to as any other [playlist](Playlists).
### Limitation
There is only one cookie per Tube Archivist instance, this will be shared between all users.
## Integrations
All third party integrations of TubeArchivist will **always** be *opt in*.
- **API**: Your access token for the Tube Archivist API.
- **returnyoutubedislike.com**: This will get return dislikes and average ratings for each video by integrating with the API from [returnyoutubedislike.com](https://www.returnyoutubedislike.com/).
- **SponsorBlock**: Using [SponsorBlock](https://sponsor.ajay.app/) to get and skip sponsored content. If a video doesn't have timestamps, or has unlocked timestamps, use the browser addon to contribute to this excellent project. Can also be activated and deactivated as a per [channel overwrite](Settings#channel-customize).
## Snapshots
System snapshots will automatically make daily snapshots of the Elasticsearch index. The task will start at 12pm your local time. Snapshots are deduplicated, meaning that each snapshot will only have to backup changes since the last snapshot. The initial snapshot may be slow, but subsequent runs will be much faster. There is also a cleanup function implemented, that will remove snapshots older than 30 days.
This will make a snapshot of your metadata index only, no media files or additional configuration variables you have set on the settings page will be backed up.
Due to these improvements compared to the previous backup solution, system snapshots will replace the current backup system in a future version.
Before activating system snapshots, you'll have to add one additional environment variables to the *archivist-es* container:
```
path.repo=/usr/share/elasticsearch/data/snapshot
```
The variable `path.repo` will set the folder where the snapshots will go inside the Elasticsearch container, you can't change it, but the variable needs to be set. Rebuild the container for changes to take effect, e.g `docker compose up -d`.
- **Create snapshot now**: Will start the snapshot process now, outside of the regular daily schedule.
- **Restore**: Restore your index to that point in time.
# Scheduler Setup
Schedule settings expect a cron like format, where the first value is minute, second is hour and third is day of the week. Day 0 is Sunday, day 1 is Monday etc.
Examples:
- `0 15 *`: Run task every day at 15:00 in the afternoon.
- `30 8 \*/2`: Run task every second day of the week (Sun, Tue, Thu, Sat) at 08:30 in the morning.
- `0 \*/3,8-17 *`: Execute every hour divisible by 3, and every hour during office hours (8 in the morning - 5 in the afternoon).
- `0 8,16 *`: Execute every day at 8 in the morning and at 4 in the afternoon.
- `auto`: Sensible default.
- `0`: (zero), deactivate that task.
NOTE:
- Changes in the scheduler settings require a container restart to take effect.
- Cron format as *number*/*number* are none standard cron and are not supported by the scheduler, for example `0 0/12 *` is invalid, use `0 */12 *` instead.
- Avoid an unnecessary frequent schedule to not get blocked by YouTube. For that reason, the scheduler doesn't support schedules that trigger more than once per hour.
## Rescan Subscriptions
That's the equivalent task as run from the downloads page looking through your channel and playlist and add missing videos to the download queue.
## Start download
Start downloading all videos currently in the download queue.
## Refresh Metadata
Rescan videos, channels and playlists on youtube and update metadata periodically. This will also refresh your subtitles based on your current settings. If an item is no longer available on YouTube, this will deactivate it and exclude it from future refreshes. This task is meant to be run once per day, set your schedule accordingly.
The field **Refresh older than x days** takes a number where TubeArchivist will consider an item as *outdated*. This value is used to calculate how many items need to be refreshed today based on the total indexed. This will spread out the requests to YouTube. Sensible value here is **90** days.
## Thumbnail check
This will check if all expected thumbnails are there and will delete any artwork without matching video.
## ZIP file index backup
Create a zip file of the metadata and select **Max auto backups to keep** to automatically delete old backups created from this task. For data consistency, make sure there aren't any other tasks running that will change the index during the backup process. This is very slow, particularly for large archives. Use snapshots instead.
# Actions
Additional database functionality.
## Delete download queue
The button **Delete all queued** will delete all pending videos from the download queue. The button **Delete all ignored** will delete all videos you have previously ignored.
## Manual Media Files Import
NOTE: This is inherently error prone, as there are many variables, some outside of the control of this project. Read this carefully and use at your own risk.
Add the files you'd like to import to the */cache/import* folder. Only add files, don't add subdirectories. All files you are adding, need to have the same *base name* as the media file. Then start the process from the settings page *Manual Media Files Import*.
Valid media extensions are *.mp4*, *.mkv* or *.webm*. If you have other file extensions or incompatible codecs, convert them first to mp4. **Tube Archivist** can identify the videos with one of the following methods.
### Method 1:
Add a matching *.info.json* file with the media file. Both files need to have the same base name, for example:
- For the media file: `<base-name>.mp4`
- For the JSON file: `<base-name>.info.json`
The import process then looks for the 'id' key within the JSON file to identify the video.
### Method 2:
Detect the YouTube ID from filename, this accepts the default yt-dlp naming convention for file names like:
- `<base-name>[<youtube-id>].mp4`
- The YouTube ID in square brackets at the end of the filename is the crucial part.
### Offline import:
If the video you are trying to import is not available on YouTube any more, **Tube Archivist** can import the required metadata:
- The file `<base-name>.info.json` is required to extract the required information.
- Add the thumbnail as `<base-name>.<ext>`, where valid file extensions are *.jpg*, *.png* or *.webp*. If there is no thumbnail file, **Tube Archivist** will try to extract the embedded cover from the media file or will fallback to a default thumbnail.
- Add subtitles as `<base-name>.<lang>.vtt` where *lang* is the two letter ISO country code. This will archive all subtitle files you add to the import folder, independent from your configurations. Subtitles can be archived and used in the player, but they can't be indexed or made searchable due to the fact, that they have a very different structure than the subtitles as **Tube Archivist** needs them.
- For videos, where the whole channel is not available any more, you can add the `<channel-id>.info.json` file as generated by *youtube-dl/yt-dlp* to get the full metadata. Alternatively **Tube Archivist** will extract as much info as possible from the video info.json file.
### Some notes:
- This will **consume** the files you put into the import folder: Files will get converted to mp4 if needed (this might take a long time...) and moved to the archive, *.json* files will get deleted upon completion to avoid having duplicates on the next run.
- For best file transcoding quality, convert your media files with desired settings first before importing.
- Maybe start with a subset of your files to import to make sure everything goes well...
- Follow the logs to monitor progress and errors: `docker-compose logs -f tubearchivist`.
## Embed thumbnails into media file
This will write or overwrite all thumbnails in the media file using the downloaded thumbnail. This is only necessary if you didn't download the files with the option *Embed Thumbnail* enabled or want to make sure all media files get the newest thumbnail. Follow the docker-compose logs to monitor progress.
## ZIP file index backup
This will backup your metadata into a zip file. The file will get stored at *cache/backup* and will contain the necessary files to restore the Elasticsearch index formatted **nd-json** files. For data consistency, make sure there aren't any other tasks running that will change the index during the backup process. This is very slow, particularly for large archives.
NOTE: **BE AWARE** This will **not** backup any media files, just the metadata from the Elasticsearch.
## Restore From Backup
The restore functionality will expect the same zip file in *cache/backup* as created from the **Backup database** function. This will recreate the index from the snapshot. There will be a list of all available backup to choose from. The *source* tag can have these different values:
- **manual**: For backups manually created from here on the settings page.
- **auto**: For backups automatically created via a sceduled task.
- **update**: For backups created after a Tube Archivist update due to changes in the index.
- **False**: Undefined.
BE AWARE: This will **replace** your current index with the one from the backup file. This won't restore any media files.
## Rescan Filesystem
This function will go through all your media files and looks at the whole index to try to find any issues:
- Should the filename not match with the indexed media url, this will rename the video files correctly and update the index with the new link.
- When you delete media files from the filesystem outside of the Tube Archivist interface, this will delete leftover metadata from the index.
- When you have media files that are not indexed yet, this will grab the metadata from YouTube like it was a newly downloaded video. This can be useful when restoring from an older backup file with missing metadata but already downloaded mediafiles. NOTE: This only works if the media files are named in the same convention as Tube Archivist does, particularly the YouTube ID needs to be at the same index in the filename, alternatively see above for *Manual Media Files Import*.
- The task will stop, when adding a video fails, for example if the video is no longer available on YouTube.
- This will also check all of your thumbnails and download any that are missing.
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# User Management
For now, **Tube Archivist** is a single user application. You can create multiple users with different names and passwords, they will share the same videos and permissions but some interface configurations are on a per user basis. *More is on the roadmap*.
## Superuser
The first user gets created with the environment variables **TA_USERNAME** and **TA_PASSWORD** from your docker-compose file. That first user will automatically have *superuser* privileges.
## Admin Interface
When logged in from your *superuser* account, you are able to access the admin interface from the settings page or at `/admin/`. This interface holds all functionality for user management.
## Create additional users
From the admin interface when you click on *Accounts* you will get a list of all users. From there you can create additional users by clicking on *Add Account*, provide a name and confirm password and click on *Save* to create the user.
## Changing users
You can delete or change permissions and password of a user by clicking on the username from the *Accounts* list page and follow the interface from there. Changing the password of the *superuser* here will overwrite the password originally set with the environment variables.
## Reset
Delete all user configurations by deleting the file `cache/db.sqlite3` and restart the container. This will create the superuser again from the environment variables.
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# Video Page
Every video downloaded gets a dedicated page accessible at `/video/<video-id>/` of your Tube Archivist. Throughout the interface, click on a video title to access the video page.
Clicking on the channel name or the channel icon will bring you to the dedicated channel detail [page](Channels.md#channel-detail).
- The button **Reindex** will reindex the metadata of this video.
- The button **Download File** will download the media file in the browser.
- The button **Delete Video** will delete that video including the media file.
If available, a tag cloud will show, representing the tags set by the uploader.
The video description is truncated to the first few lines, click on *show more* to expand the whole description.
## Playlist
When available, a playlist navigation will show at the bottom. Clicking on the playlist name will bring you to the dedicated [Playlist Detail](Playlists.md#playlist-detail) page showing all videos downloaded from that playlist. The number in square brackets indicates the position of the current video in that playlist.
Clicking on the next or previous video name or thumbnail will bring you to that dedicated video page.
## Similar Videos
Tube Archivist will show up to six similar videos in a grid. Similarity is detected from the **video title** and the **video tags**. This naturally will show some videos from the same channel, but can also return videos about the same topic from other channels.
When playing a video from the similar section with the inline player, the current video will get replaced, refresh the page to reset that or click on the video title to avoid that behavior.
## Comments
If activated on the settings page, this will show the indexed comments. Reveal the threads by clicking the *+ Replies* button. Comments with a heart symbol are favorited by the uploader, comments by the uploader are highlighted in a different color.

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# Welcome to MkDocs
# Tube Archivist
Welcome to the official Tube Archivist Docs. This is an up-to-date documentation of user functionality.
For full documentation visit [mkdocs.org](https://www.mkdocs.org).
## Table of contents:
## Commands
* [FAQ](FAQ): Frequently asked questions what this project is and tries to do
* [Channels](Channels): Browse your channels, handle channel subscriptions
* [Playlists](Playlists): Browse your indexed playlists, handle playlist subscriptions
* [Downloads](Downloads): Scanning subscriptions, handle download queue
* [Settings](Settings): All the configuration options
* [Video](Video): All details of a single video and playlist navigation.
* [Users](Users): User management admin interface
* [Search](Search): Search your archive
* [Installation](Installation): Detailed installation instructions for various platforms.
* `mkdocs new [dir-name]` - Create a new project.
* `mkdocs serve` - Start the live-reloading docs server.
* `mkdocs build` - Build the documentation site.
* `mkdocs -h` - Print help message and exit.
## Getting Started
## Project layout
1. [Subscribe](Channels#channels-overview) to some of your favourite YouTube channels.
2. [Scan](Downloads#rescan-subscriptions) subscriptions to add the latest videos to the download queue.
3. [Add](Downloads#add-to-download-queue) additional videos, channels or playlist - ignore the ones you don't want to download.
4. [Download](Downloads#download-queue) and let **Tube Archivist** do it's thing.
5. Sit back and enjoy your archived and indexed collection!
mkdocs.yml # The configuration file.
docs/
index.md # The documentation homepage.
... # Other markdown pages, images and other files.
## General Navigation
* Clicking on the channel name or the channel icon brings you to the dedicated channel page to show videos from that channel.
* Clicking on a video title brings you to the dedicated video page and shows additional details.
* Clicking on a video thumbnail opens the video player and starts streaming the selected video.
* Clicking on the search icon <img src="assets/icon-search.png?raw=true" alt="gridview icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> will open a dedicated search page to search over your complete index.
* The pagination - if available - builds links for up to 10'000 results, use the search, sort or filter functionality to find what you are looking for.
An empty checkbox icon <img src="assets/icon-unseen.png?raw=true" alt="unseen icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> will show for videos you haven't marked as watched. Click on it and the icon will change to a filled checkbox <img src="assets/icon-seen.png?raw=true" alt="seen icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> indicating it as watched - click again to revert.
When available the <img src="assets/icon-gridview.png?raw=true" alt="gridview icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> gridview icon will display the list in a grid. A grid row holds 3 items by default, use the <img src="assets/icon-add.png?raw=true" alt="listview icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> icon to add more or the <img src="assets/icon-substract.png?raw=true" alt="listview icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> icon to remove items per row, depending on your screen size. The <img src="assets/icon-listview.png?raw=true" alt="listview icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> listview icon will arrange the items in a list. The sort icon <img src="assets/icon-sort.png?raw=true" alt="listview icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> will open additional sort options.
You can control the video player with the following keyboard shortcuts:
- `?`: Show help
- `m`: toggle mute
- `c`: toggle subtitles if available
- `>`: increase playback speed
- `<`: decrease playback speed
- `←` (left arrow): jump back 5 seconds
- `→` (right arrow): jump forward 5 seconds

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site_name: Tube Archivist Documentation
site_url: https://docs.tubearchivist.com
nav:
- Home: 'index.md'
- User Guide:
- 'Channels Overview and Channel Detail Page': 'Channels.md'
- 'Downloads Page': 'Downloads.md'
- 'FAQ': 'FAQ.md'
- 'Installation': 'Installation.md'
- 'Playlists': 'Playlists.md'
- 'Search': 'Search.md'
- 'Users': 'Users.md'
- 'Video': 'Video.md'
- 'Settings': 'Settings.md'
- About:
- 'Main site': https://www.tubearchivist.com
- 'Join us on Discord!': https://www.tubearchivist.com/discord
- 'License': https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist/blob/master/LICENSE
- 'Release Notes': https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist/releases
repo_url: https://github.com/tubearchivist/docs
markdown_extensions:
- toc:
permalink: "#"
- callouts
theme:
name: material