You people always make everything more complicated than necessary.

  yt-dlp -o '%(uploader)s/%(upload_date)s - %(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s' --cookies-from-browser chrome https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=LL

That does none of the things tubearchivist does, among them:

- Subscribe to your favorite YouTube channels - Index and make videos searchable - Play videos - Keep track of viewed and unviewed videos

Not to mention having to ssh and copy paste URLs around, instead of visiting a page in my browser.

Yep. But.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

I'm also not a fun of such overengineered programs, but using raw yt-dlp alone is not enough for replicating full workflow.

Your command is nice for downloading a single video (I also provide a url from clipboard via xclip), but archiving videos daily from a list of favorite channels would require a bit more scripting. Didn't manage to find anything both minimal and popular to link instead.

> 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.

If you don't want the indexing and the pretty frontend that's fine, but there's a reason software like Plex is popular.

Someone should put together and publish a docker container that does that.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I sent the video to my friend, but his phone says "/home/trvz/media/youtube/george hotz archive/20251109 - comma ai ｜ COMMA CON 2025 ｜ George Hotz ｜ Outwit, Outplay, Outlast ｜ President [werrvv0MVXQ].webm" was not found. Plz help!