Archives youtube channels.

archive.sh

#!/bin/sh

YOUTUBEDL='/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl'	# Absolute path to youtube-dl executable
ARCHIVE='~/youtube_archive'		# Absolute path to archive

$YOUTUBEDL -U

archive () {
	mkdir -p "$ARCHIVE/$1"
	cd "$ARCHIVE/$1"
	rmdir -- * 2> /dev/null
	rm -fv -- */*.part 2> /dev/null
	rm -rf $(find . -printf '%h\n' | sort | uniq -c | while read -r n d ; do [ $n -lt 5 ] && printf '%s\n' "$d" ; done) 2> /dev/null
	
	$YOUTUBEDL -q --get-id https://youtube.com/$2 | while read VIDEOID; do
		if [ -d "$ARCHIVE/$1/$VIDEOID" ]; then
			echo -e "\\n\\n$VIDEOID already archived, skipping…\\n\\n"
		else
			echo -r "\\n\\nArchiving $VIDEOID.\\n\\n"
			mkdir "$ARCHIVE/$1/$VIDEOID"
			cd "$ARCHIVE/$1/$VIDEOID"
			$YOUTUBEDL -o "%(upload_date)s.video" -- $VIDEOID
			ls *.video | cut -c1-8 > date.txt
			mv -v *.video video.mp4
			$YOUTUBEDL --get-title -- $VIDEOID > title.txt
			$YOUTUBEDL --get-description -- $VIDEOID > description.txt
			wget $($YOUTUBEDL --get-thumbnail -- $VIDEOID)
			mv -v *.jpg thumbnail.jpg
		fi
	done
}

# Enter channels here. For example: 
# 
# archive "Gronkh"	Gronkh
# archive "SpiegelTV"	channel/UC1w6pNGiiLdZgyNpXUnA4Zw