Utilizes TheFrenchGhosty's YouTube archive scripts using the popular youtube-dl fork, yt-dlp.
The containers either archive a Channel, Playlists, or Unique videos. The archiving process consists of downloading the video's metadata/information, description, comments, thumbnail, subtitles, and the highest quality version of that video.
Three containers are created one for Channels, Playlists, and Unique videos. Each container runs the specified script located under /container-scripts. In each folder under /container-scripts is a source text file which is where YouTube urls are inserted for downloading.
Once the videos are downloaded, a postprocess script is run which first runs the detox utility, removing all spaces and weird characters from the file paths. Next the archived videos are moved over to my NAS. Finally, after the videos are copied over the local files are deleted.
Use the docker-compose.yml file to create the containers.
Use cron on the host server to execute docker start yt-archive-MODE on a schedule you see fit.