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yt-channels-archive 0.2.3
A CLI tool to backup multiple YouTube channels along with their associated metadata and thumbnails. In the highest available quality.
License: Apache 2.0

# yt-channels-archive

A CLI tool to backup multiple YouTube channels along with their associated metadata and thumbnails. In the highest available quality.

## Installation

```bash
pip install yt-channels-archive
```

## Usage

```bash
yt_archive --output-dir ./backup https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7edjYPNhTm5LYJMT7UMt0Q/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6cMYsKMx6XicFcFm7mTsmA
```

You may notice this will also places a file in your backup folder called 'download_archive.txt'.

Don't delete that as it's used to ensure videos are only downloaded once (if you remove it and re-run the above command existing videos will be re-downloaded).

## Running the tests

```bash
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
pytest tests
```

## Running the linter

```bash
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
flake8
```


Release History
===============

## 0.2.3 (2023-02-20)
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- Use yt-dlp from Git source (to get latest bugfixes ASAP).

## 0.2.2 (2023-02-20)
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- Use yt-dlp.


## 0.2.1 (2023-02-05)
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- youtube_dl==2021.4.1.
- Connect via ipv4 only.


0.2.0 (2021-02-01)
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- Adds Channel images and other metadata to the archive.


0.1.7 (2021-01-23)
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- Revert previous 2.


0.1.6 (2021-01-23)
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- Force ipv6.


0.1.5 (2021-01-23)
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- Force ipv4.


0.1.4 (2021-01-20)
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- youtube_dl==2021.1.16.


0.1.3 (2021-01-20)
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- Fix 429 errors.


0.1.2 (2021-01-09)
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- Fix to prevent duplicate download work.


0.1.1 (2020-11-30)
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- Corrects some 4k files missing audio.


0.1.0 (2020-11-28)
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- Initial release.