My first Perl program, created for personal use and with the intent to learn Perl. Allows one to "subscribe" to playlists on youtube. New videos are downloaded every time program is run. The configuration is done in the Subscribed.pm file.
- Store you Done.pm and Subscribed.pm in ~/.config/youtube.
- Run the youtube.pl file.
- There will be a pause after each video title is shown:
y -> Yes (download this)
n -> No (Ignore this)
d -> Show the description of the video and ask for input again
- Requires Youtube Data API key.
- Downloads videos locally.
- Remembers last videos using the Done.pm file.
- Done.pm is changed everytime the program is run, so it should be given read and write permissions.
- Topics are not downloaded in any specific order. (for now)
- Since the program is configured in Perl, usage requires moderate knowledge of Perl.
- By default yt-dlp is used to download videos. One may change that or change the flags yt-dlp is run with by editing the download subroutine in Subscribed.pm.
- Of course, this is for Unix based operating systems only.
- Done.pm is to be configured once. This includes the last video that was asked from each playlist. When running another time, videos uploaded after that video will be checked.
- Assumes you haven't missed more than 50 videos for convenience.
- This file can be thought of as the "config file" of the program.
- Each topic is a data member of the package which is a 2d array.
- Each playlist is an array belonging to a topic.
- Playlists have three elements, last one being optional.
- The first 2 elements of a playlist are the name and the Id respectively, third element is the directory in which the videos are to be downloaded.
- If the third element is left blank, videos will be downloaded to the Downloads directory of the current user.
- The name of the playlist can be anything, it does not have to match the actual name.
- The api_key subroutine returns the Youtube Data API key. Users are required to write this function themselves based on how the key is stored on their system.
- The download subroutine will be called on each video id.
Tip: If one wants to subscribe to a channel. Get a hold of the channel id, replace the leading 'UC' with 'UU'. The resulting string is the ID of a playlist containing all of the channels videos.
Not actively looking for contributors, but any pull request is welcome. No hard feelings if I don't agree with you, you can live with your own fork.