SubBuddy-py: A YouTube Subscription Auto-downloader

[marlencrabapple]

Just threw this together this morning to replace a .NET YouTube subscription auto-downloader that I haphazardly hacked together 2 years ago.

http://onlinebargainshrimptoyourdoor.com/2014/03/01/introducing-subbuddy-py/

https://github.com/marlencrabapple/SubBuddy-py

Its a little rough around the edges, and incredibly barebones (a good thing in this case, I hope), but its the first Python script that I ever wrote and I'm kinda surprised that I managed to put it together so quickly.

If anyone's looking for a good laugh/headache, here's a link to the original .NET monstrosity: https://github.com/marlencrabapple/SubBuddy

 

[notFound]

So what does this actually download? All of your subscriptions videos? That would be millions for me.

I need to write something to download my favourite videos and put it on cron, this code might come in handy. ;-)

 

[marlencrabapple]

So what does this actually download? All of your subscriptions videos? That would be millions for me.

I need to write something to download my favourite videos and put it on cron, this code might come in handy. ;-)

Kinda. It downloads whatever they post while the script is running.

 

[k0nsl]

Thank you, that's pretty useful for me.

 

[wdq]

Interesting. I have been working on a script that lists subscription videos and allows you to click on a button to have them added to a download queue.

 

[TheHackBox]

This sounds amazing. Thanks a lot.

 

[marlencrabapple]

Threw in support for downloading single videos since youtube-dl won't grab the highest quality video by default if its available in anything higher than 720p. Not a huge deal, but it's one command compared to 2 or 3 in youtube-dl on its own.