yt-watcher

yt-watcher allows users to monitor a list of YouTube channels and automatically download their most recent videos. This tool simplifies the process of keeping track of your favorite content creators without compromising on privacy or needing to suffer through ads.

This can be configured to use either the YouTube, or Invidious api.

Configuration

config.yaml can be found in XDG_HOME. For linux this is typically ~/.config/yt-watcher. A default configuration is generated on first run.

output value will be initially generated as $HOME/yt-watcher.

query:
  interval: 1min
  age: 24hr
  use_invidious: false
  invidious_host: https://vid.puffyan.us/
loop: true
verbose: true
output: /home/<user>/yt-watcher
yt-dlp:
    config:
        enable: false
        path: /home/<user>/.config/yt-dlp/config
channels:
- UCaYhcUwRBNscFNUKTjgPFiA
- UCrW38UKhlPoApXiuKNghuig

To configure how videos are downloaded refer to the configuration options provided by yt-dlp.

How to Use

Nix

The best way to run this application is to use nix. Nix will include all the dependencies needed to run the application.

# Run from remote repository.
nix run "github:siph/yt-watcher"

# With custom configuration file location
nix run "github:siph/yt-watcher" -- ./config.yaml

Nushell

This method is not ideal as nushell evolves quickly and scripts can become out-of-date very easily. Managing dependencies is also cumbersome which is why the Nix method is recommended.

Dependencies:

• yt-dlp: 2023.12.30
• nushell: 0.88.1

Optional Dependencies:

• ffmpeg
• rtmpdump
• atomicparsley

nu \
--no-config-file \
--commands 'use ./yt-watcher ; yt-watcher'