yt_podoff

Create offline caches of YouTube podcast feeds

USAGE

1. Create one or more directories to contain your desired feeds.
2. Create a file in each directory containing the YouTube user/channel/playlist URLs for that feed.
3. Run yt_podoff on those files:

$ yt_podoff [<youtube-dl_options>... --] <YouTube_url_file> ...

EXAMPLE

$ mkdir -p ${HOME}/podcasts/Hak5
$ echo "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW5y1tjAOzI0w_GbtiEbYS5PGJ2pmxAIX" > ${HOME}/podcasts/Hak5/.url
$ yt_podoff --write-info-json -- ${HOME}/podcasts/Hak5/.url

INSPIRATION

I'd already been using the venerable youtube-dl to catch up on several podcasts that had moved to YouTube.

Then a stray Reddit question made me take a second look at my setup, and realize that youtube-dl was actually quite inefficient at determining which videos to download.

So I rewrote my caching script to process the YouTube RSS feeds instead, and pass the necessary URLs to youtube-dl.

And I'm now a much happier camper.