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TubeArchivist alternatives that store data in an archive friendly manner? (lemmy.world)

submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by douglasg14b@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've been using Tube Archivist to archive my YouTube playlists, but I've hit a portability snag. It stores all metadata in its internal database and saves video files with non-readable filenames. This makes the archive unreadable without the software and its database, which defeats the point of long-term archival storage.

Are there any tools that:

Archive playlists with human-readable filenames (or let you control the naming scheme)
Have an API for queuing archival jobs
Store metadata in portable formats (e.g., sidecar JSON or YAML)
Don’t require additional software to interpret the archive

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[–] tegbains@lemmy.ca 17 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I changed over to PinchFlat instead for Tube Archivist for these reasons. It’s even easier to setup than TA. I have mine hooked up to store the files on an SMB share that JellyFin can read. https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat

[–] Xariq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Were you able to migrate your existing tubearchivist videos and metadata? I would love to switch to pinchflat, but it wouldn't be feasible for me to redownload my entire library

[–] tegbains@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

No I had to start from scratch sort of. PinchFlat lets you choose a start date for downloading newer videos.

I decided to age out of my old TA library and keep the ones I wanted. Not perfect but it was an okay trade off to get away from TA’s naming system

[–] Smash@lemmy.self-hosted.site 5 points 12 hours ago

https://github.com/meeb/tubesync

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Sure it's not a proprietary binary DB, right? Probably just sqlite or something? Bet you can just dump it.

But yeah, switch to something without those problems. There's lots of them out there.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Oh it's definitely an easy to read DB. But that's still beyond the point IMHO.

If you can't reconstruct the state of your files without 3rd party software to interpret them, then they are not in an archive format.

One should be able to browse their data using OS native tools on an offline device push comes to shove.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 hours ago

i just use yt-dlp with a config that stores all metadata. seems to work fine.. but its kinda hassle to find what you need among all downloaded stuff