ytcd - YouTube channel downloader script

Requirements

To use the script you must have yt-dlp installed.

Usage

The channels to be downloaded and the download path must be edited in the init() function; the rest of the script can be left untouched. The test entries should be replaced with your own, this may look like this:

# Download folder
path="/home/sadirde/downloads"
    
# Channel URLs
channels[jawed]="https://www.youtube.com/user/jawed"
channels[youtube]="https://www.youtube.com/c/youtube"
channels[t-series]="https://www.youtube.com/aashiqui2"

There are two commands, firstly to download all channels:

./ytcd channels

and secondly to download a specific channel:

./ytcd channel name-of-channel

Replace name-of-channel with a name you specified in the init() function, for example ./ytcd channel t-series.

In addition to the videos, JSON files containing the metadata about the videos and the channel are downloaded and stored in the "info" folder.

License

ytcd is free and open-sourced software licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.