A collection of scripts for archival purposes.

DEPENDENCIES: yt-dlp, youtube-community-tab, ffmpeg

Copy the provided Config.exp.json5 file to Config.json5 to create your settings.

Use dl.ps1 <link> to interactively select a download script with descriptions, with auto-fallthrough for youtube.com/live streams and (non-clip) twitch.tv streams/VODs to their respective downloaders.

Settings

Config.OutputBase

• [String] Generic base path for downloaders.
• Ex,
  • "/mnt/W/ytdl"
  • "./"
  • "C:/Users/User/Download/"

Config.YTDLPOutputFormat

• [String] File name format for yt-dlp
• Ex "%(uploader)s/%(upload_date)s - %(id)s - %(title)s/%(title)s [%(id)s] f%(format_id)s.%(ext)s

Config.NoCookies

• [Bool: true|false] Whether to use cookies at all, or have them disabled.

Config.AlwaysUseCookiesFile

• [Bool: true|false] Always use Config.CookiesFilePath as the cookie provider instead of the browser

Config.CookiesFilePath

• [String] Cookie file path.
• Needed when Config.AlwaysUseCookiesFile is true
• Ex
  • "C:/Users/User/cookies.txt"
  • "/mnt/W/ytdl/cookies.txt"

Config.CookiesBrowser

• [String: chrome | firefox | ...] Browser for yt-dlp to auto-extract cookies from when AlwaysUseCookiesFile is false
• See the yt-dlp README#Filesystem Options for supported browsers

Config.JsRuntime

• [String: deno | node | bun | quickjs | none] JS runtime for solving challenges
• See the yt-dlp wiki page for details

Config.ArchiveSleepMin, ArchiveSleepMax, ArchiveDataSleep

• [Int] full and its children scripts use a different sleep duration than other scripts. This helps prevent temp bans by YouTube (and probably other platforms) from mass downloads, like entire channels.

Config.MediaConcurrentFragments, Config.DataConcurrentFragments

NOTE ABOUT CONCURRENT FRAGMENTS: I recommend keeping the defaults pre-set, I have tested these somewhat-thouroughly and have determined that this is about the upper limit before YouTube begins throttling your connection or temp. blocking your IP. I am, however, in the US with a reasonably good connection, so if you find your download speed lacking or are being throttled (WARNING: The download speed is below throttle limit or Got error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden) then feel free to play around with these values.

• [Int] Amount of simultanious connections allowed for video/audio (media) and subs, thumbnails, comments, not-video/audio (data).