Table of contents

• Initial setup
• Usage
• Sources

Initial setup

You will need the following to use this properly :

• curl
• ffmpeg
• base-devel
• coreutils
• yt-dlp
• pafy

yt-dlp you can find here:
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Pafy here:
https://github.com/mps-youtube/pafy

On linux you can install yt-dlp via command line or package manager.
I prefer first aproach

sudo curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

OR

sudo wget https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -O /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

(source yt-dlp github page)

And pafy i got from AUR

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-pafy-git/

Reason i'm using both is that pafy is there as a failsafe option.

Usage

The initial bash script serves only as an example.
To make it work you will need to create the folders and change "channelid" + "channelname" to ones you want.
Or you can use the perl script, more info about that below.

I use this with cron as the name suggest.
Cronjob looks like this

 @hourly /bin/sh /home/username/Documents/Bash/cronytdl >> /home/username/Documents/Bash/logs/cronytdl.log 2>&1

I make it keep a log for me, so i can regularly check everything is working correctly.
But it works well using it via command line too.

I have added a perl script to make adding new channels to the file easier.
You will need to provide it channelname and channelid.
You also will need to add your username between the paranthesis:

my $username = "MyUsernameHere";

Perl script and cronytdl need to be in same directory to work properly.

Sources

yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
pafy https://github.com/mps-youtube/pafy, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-pafy-git/