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title: "Backing Up YouTube Content"
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date: 2020-02-17T23:17:47-05:00
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draft: false
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tags: [ "archive" ]
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---
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There are great content on YouTube that I would be sad if it went away. Therefore, I did some digging around and found a [great discussion](https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/863aid/what_is_your_method_of_viewing_youtubedl_backed/dw25vnm/) on Reddit on backing up YouTube videos. The solution is based on `youtube-dl` and I modified the script a little to fit my needs.
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The options added to `youtube-dl` makes it so that meta information such as subtitles, thumbnails, etc get added to the video.
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```bash
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youtube-dl --ignore-errors \
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--playlist-reverse \
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--output "%(uploader)s/%(uploader)s - %(title)s - %(upload_date)s.%(ext)s" \
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--format "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]" \
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--merge-output-format mp4 \
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--all-subs \
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--embed-subs \
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--embed-thumbnail \
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--add-metadata \
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URL_HERE
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```
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## Audio Only
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To extract only audio here's the modified command
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```bash
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youtube-dl --ignore-errors \
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--playlist-reverse \
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--output "%(uploader)s/%(uploader)s - %(title)s - %(upload_date)s.%(ext)s" \
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--format "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]" \
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--merge-output-format mp4 \
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--embed-thumbnail \
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--add-metadata \
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--extract-audio
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URL_HERE
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```
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