Subscription mode - Continuously download new videos by running as a deamon

[viktorlindgren]

Hi

Problem description:
I have scheduled to periodically run the youtube-dl command to download the latest videos from a specific user. This is combined with --download-archive to not download already downloaded videos. If the user has uploaded many videos through time, this can take long time.

Request:
Youtube-dl should be able to make this more efficent by only checking the new videos once and running as a deamon.

[jaimeMF]

I thinks this is a duplicate of #713.

[viktorlindgren]

As this seem to cause to much work, I have some suggestions that should be simpler to implement.

The --dateafter option should stop searching after that date has passed since anyway the newest is always first.
Note that this should still work with the --download-archive option. Currently I receive the message the video has already been recorded in archive instead of the date is not in range.

Someway to deal with the "Downloading video ids 51 - 101" so it don't download all 2000... Stop when an ID in the download-archive(the last in file is the newest) is found or when the date has passed.

Another workaround would be it relaunch itself with the same parameters again after it has slept for some time. The cli command will not return to the prompt ever.

[snipem]

I've worked on something similar to this: https://github.com/snipem/commute-tube

It is not exactly a deamon but a layer around youtube_dl for continous downloading. I trigger it by Jenkins at night.