In the light of google cracking down on ad block i want to be pro-active and automatically download new videos to my jelly fin server.
I was thinking off using this tool https://youtube-dl.org/ and writing a small script for it (with help of gpt4) but i am missing any general strategy on when i should trigger it and how to make sure it downloads all of the new videos exactly once.
I am hoping that i am not the first to do this and people can give me some good tips before i put to much work into this project.
Switch to https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp its better, its an updated version that is mantained. Right now I dont remember by memory the arguments. But if you read the documentation you can setup a file that contains a list of already downloaded videos. I used to use it to download playlists that I made and it only downloaded new videos. Read this thread, its should apply to youtube-dlp with a whole channel: https://askubuntu.com/questions/673442/downloading-youtube-playlist-with-youtube-dl-skipping-existing-files