dumptube

This tool will download all videos of the given YouTube channels using the best possible quality for each video.

It also stores metadata from both channels and videos inside a local database with parent-children relationships.

Requirements

Set your Google API key in an envvar:

export YT_API_KEY=yourapikey

List the names of the channels you wish to download inside targets, one per line. For instance:

youlost
thegame

Then, install and run:

python3 -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade .
python dumptube

By default, videos are stored in /dumps. You may specify the directory in which videos should be saved using the -d keyword:

python dumptube -d /tmp

You can also see what has been stored in the database (db.sqlite) like so:

python dumptube -s

No idea yet, use as if CC-BY-NC-SA