A feed video downloader for Youtube
Feedtube is for you if:
- You are a fan of RSS
- You don't like using the Youtube website for some reason (broken js, privacy, or other) but want to keep a list of channel subscriptions
- You need to download videos and watch them offline
- You want to watch videos without ads. Note that, as such, video creators and Youtube don't get paid
xmlstarlet and youtube-dl (plus ffmpeg)
- Just download
feedtube.shor clone the repo:git clone https://github.com/cfenollosa/feedtube - Download your Youtube subscriptions. Follow the official instructions: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6224202?hl=en
- Place the downloaded file on the same folder as feedtube
- Run
./feedtube.sh
That's it! Feedtube will convert the youtube xml file to its own format (.list.csv) and keep track of videos.
Running feedtube.sh will download new videos for your subscriptions. There's nothing more to it :)
You may run it with cron, or manually. The only caveat is that it doesn't support multiple instances running at the same time. Be careful not to overlap cron executions; give it plenty of time in case it needs to download huge files.
Downloaded filenames have the format: [Channel name] - Video name. File timestamp is set by youtube-dl as the video upload date.