A Python 3 script to sync your YouTube playlist to a local folder
usage: sync-tube.py [-h] --playlist PLAYLIST --dest DEST [--keep] [--threshold THRESHOLD]
[--processes PROCESSES] [--dont-update] [--verbose]
sync-tube.py - Sync YouTube playlists to your disc using youtube-dl
required arguments:
--playlist PLAYLIST playlist to be synced, youtube playlist id
--dest DEST destination folder to sync the playlist to
optional arguments:
--keep keep files in dest folder that aren't in the playlist
--threshold THRESHOLD
threshold distance for the string metric, if this distance is
surpassed two strings are considered different. Default 5
--processes PROCESSES
number of processes to use when downloading. Default is cpu_count *
2 i.e. 16
--dont-update don't actually change files, just print changes that would be made
--thumbnail embeds video thumbnail as coverart
--quality Mp3 Quality in bitrate. Default 192 kbps
--verbose be verbose
To sync a playlist like https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGuwvd-8KqjYGiJ1ota5WVf7u0np0V2-G to your folder ~/Music you would then do
./sync-tube.py --playlist PLGuwvd-8KqjYGiJ1ota5WVf7u0np0V2-G --dest ~/Music, in this way sync-tube will download all files that are in the remote playlist,
but are not in your local folder and delete all files in your folder that are no lenger in playlist.
You can specify the --keep flag if you want to keep files that have been removed from playlist, like if I want to sync two playlists to the same folder I would do
./sync-tube.py --playlist PLAYLISTA --dest FOLDER --keep and ./sync-tube.py --playlist PLAYLISTB --dest FOLDER --keep.
sync-tube works by comparing video titles and filenames using the Levenshtein distance between strings. You may be able to change a little filenames without
breaking sync-tube if you play around with the --threshold value, but I would not recommend it.
It's a single script, I would suggest installing dependencies in a Python virtualenv and running the script from there. A working installation of FFMPEG required.