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About The Tube Archivist

Getting started

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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

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