I’ve got to make a decision and want to take a room temperature check on what sacrifices people find acceptable for their own comfort. Use any services you know you shouldn’t? Any tools that you’re just waiting for a chance to replace but can’t yet?

  • darthinvidious@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I still use YouTube due to not figuring out how to export my playlists in a way where I can just have a plaintext list of all the videos I want to keep track of. I’m planning on coming up with some kind of Python script to take what I get from their “takeout” method and from there, just find a programmatic way to get what I want. So basically, I allow Google to keep cookies on my system but I use a different Google account on my phone to avoid having them track me on different devices.

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        6 days ago

        Yes you can. If I understand it correctly it’s about keeping it updated automatically, i.e. as soon as a new video appears, it should yt-dlp itself. I’m actually looking for something similar. But I have been downloading whole channels by using yt-dlp on playlists.

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          6 days ago

          Tubearchivist maybe? I haven’t used it so I don’t know if it’s automated like that.

          Personally I just have yt-dlp in a script run periodically by cron.