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This looks promising! Thank you!
Best "it just works" solution I've found. So many others are just weird scripts around yt-dlp, and this kind of is too, but the most maintained and supported. I'm at like... well I have over 1000 pages of videos in there. It's solid.
Can I have it download videos discriminately? For example, exclude live streams, ignore videos under 2 minutes, only download videos from 2025, only download videos uploaded on Mon-Fri? Furthermore could I have it download one playlist from a channel in 1080p, and a separate playlist from a channel in 720p?
This has been my solution. Subscribe to a playlist or an entire channel, set up the schedule, and you're done. If you're a supporter of the project I believe it has real-time monitoring for new uploads.
I will note that, somewhat recently, YouTube changed the URL format for playlists and this has broken subscribing/downloading playlists that use the new format. I haven't checked today but there's a patch that was still waiting to be merged. Unless there's a new release incorporating it, you'll have to apply it yourself or feed the URLs in manually for now.
Yeah, this is the one. My archive is currently about 20TB.