Before adding some videos to the download queue, take a look at the download format settings on your settings page and set your desired download quality.
While at the settings page also set the value for the Subscriptions page size. This will define the max amount of videos that will get added once you run Rescan Subscriptions. yt-dlp by default uses 50 video page size. Any value higher than that will significantly slow down the scanning process.
Subscribe to some of your favourite youtube channels in the channel page. To subscribe to a channel you have a few options:
Enter the Youtube channel ID, a 25 character alphanumeric string. For example UCBa659QWEk1AI4Tg--mrJ2A
Enter the url to the channel page on youtube. For example https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBa659QWEk1AI4Tg--mrJ2A
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
After that head over to the Downloads Page. Once you click on the Rescan Subscriptions button, Tube Archivist will go through all your subscribed channels and look for new videos. Initially these are the latest videos depending on the page size as described above.
Click on ignore for any video you don't want to download or on Download now for any video you want to start downloading now independently from the queue.
Click on the Download queue button to start downloading. Tube Archivist will then start the queue from the bottom and download as many videos as defined in download limit. There is currently no good way to cancel the download process.
Additional
You can manually add videos to the queue on the download page by clicking on Add to download queue and then entering a list of videos. Add one link per line. You have a few options:
Add a link to a Youtube video. For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y.
Add a Youtube video ID. For example 2tdiKTSdE9Y.
Add a link to a Youtube video by providing the shortened url, for example https://youtu.be/2tdiKTSdE9Y.
Add a Channel ID or Channel Url to add every available video to the download queue. This will ignore the page size as described above. You can still ignore selected videos before starting the download.
As you watch videos, mark them as watched by clicking on the unseen icon . Once marked as watched, the icon will change to .