Building A YouTube Archive System
For the past few years I have been slowly building up a system that downloads and catalogs YouTube videos for my own personal viewing. As a result I have my own little library of internet content that I control and can keep for myself, something that is important to me.
Projects like this are never quite finished, but it’s at a point now where I’m fairly satisfied with it and I think what I’ve got could benefit someone else, or at least make for a mildly interesting article. My goal here is to go through how my system works and why you might want to build one yourself.
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