You know how you have a playlist of your favorite videos, then one gets removed or deleted or privatized and you can never know what it was? This saves relevant metadata from your (public/unlisted) playlists periodically so you can always know what a video was!
Note: if a video is not available in your geographic region, it may be marked as "deleted"
- Node v16
- yt-dlp (Will be run with
execSync) - A webserver to host the static output
- graphicsmagick (See instructions at https://www.npmjs.com/package/gm
For linux it's
sudo apt-get install -y graphicsmagick
git clone https://github.com/Bowserinator/youtube-playlist-archiver
cd youtube-playlist-archiver
npm install
npm run scss
Note: this uses a custom fork of ytpl to fix a bug where playlist titles and descriptions were not resolved. Once the original maintainer fixes it the dependencies will be updated
Uses yt-dlp now because ytpl is not maintained anymore.
Next, copy everything in /html to your html output folder.
Put a config.js at the top level, see config.example.js for an example config. Also put a cookies.txt
at the top level or edit the config YT_CMD.
You can dump cookies with this command: yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox --cookies cookies
node index.js
Manually start download:
node download.js
Manually generate HTML:
node html.js