Round-the-clock monitoring "YouTube" channel (and download "Live Stream")

[mihapsx]

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Add the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['-o', 'C:\\youtube-dl\\download\\%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOS-qxHw6iqC2ipPpwiqvzw/videos']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.11.23
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.14393
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0.2, ffprobe 4.0.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
...
<end of log>

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How make so that "youtube-dl" round-the-clock monitored YouTube channel, and if the there start of the "Live Stream", "youtube-dl" started to download it. ?

My command line looks like this:

youtube-dl --download-archive archive.txt "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOS-qxHw6iqC2ipPpwiqvzw/videos"

or

youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOS-qxHw6iqC2ipPpwiqvzw"

Please help.

[ealgase]

The first command should work, but you need to wrap it in a batch script to be always active. The following should work: https://gist.github.com/ealgase/d3e91c247bf32c091e85be9229bffd0f. Download it, put it in the folder where you want the channel, then run around-the-clock-monitor <channel url>

[dstftw]

Monitoring is out of scope of youtube-dl.