YouTube Playlist Backup

YouTube videos get deleted/hidden all the time.
Sadly, it's not even possible to get the title which would be useful for music playlists etc.
This tool saves all the videos into a database making it possible to obtain titles of deleted videos.

Features

• Obtain video/playlist metadata by scraping playlist URLs defined in playlists.txt file
• Store metadata from each execution in SQLite database making tracking video availability changes possible.
• No API key needed (only public/unlisted playlists supported)

Usage

Put non-private (public/unlisted) playlist URLs to playlists.txt.
One URL per line, like so:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAYLIST_ID_01 # Some comment/name
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAYLIST_ID_02
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAYLIST_ID_03

Setup venv

./setup.sh

Run

./run.sh

Check the execution logs or inspect the data/database.db file using tool such as DB Browser for Sqlite.

TIP: Configure a Cron job for periodical checks
NOTE: Private playlists produce error which is logged and also inserted into error DB table but does not stop the program

Todo

• Optionally backup video files, not just metadata
• Use ORM with migrates
• Use Python package
• CLI arguments
• More transparent
• Diff reports