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diff --git a/po/eo/LC_MESSAGES/_articles/2018-12-21-using-youtube-dl-to-manage-youtube-subscriptions.po b/po/eo/LC_MESSAGES/_articles/2018-12-21-using-youtube-dl-to-manage-youtube-subscriptions.po new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c66831d --- /dev/null +++ b/po/eo/LC_MESSAGES/_articles/2018-12-21-using-youtube-dl-to-manage-youtube-subscriptions.po @@ -0,0 +1,383 @@ +# +msgid "" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"title: Using \"youtube-dl\" to manage YouTube subscriptions\n" +"date: 2018-12-21\n" +"layout: post\n" +"lang: en\n" +"ref: using-youtube-dl-to-manage-youtube-subscriptions" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"I've recently read the " +"[announcement](https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/9sg8q5/i_built_a_selfhosted_youtube_subscription_manager/)" +" of a very nice [self-hosted YouTube subscription " +"manager](https://github.com/chibicitiberiu/ytsm). I haven't used YouTube's " +"built-in subscriptions for a while now, and haven't missed it at all. When I" +" saw the announcement, I considered writing about the solution I've built on" +" top of [youtube-dl](https://youtube-dl.org/)." +msgstr "" + +msgid "Background: the problem with YouTube" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"In many ways, I agree with [André Staltz's view on data ownership and " +"privacy](https://staltz.com/what-happens-when-you-block-internet-" +"giants.html):" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"I started with the basic premise that \"I want to be in control of my " +"data\". Sometimes that meant choosing when to interact with an internet " +"giant and how much I feel like revealing to them. Most of times it meant not" +" interacting with them at all. I don't want to let them be in full control " +"of how much they can know about me. I don't want to be in autopilot mode. " +"(...) Which leads us to YouTube. While I was able to find alternatives to " +"Gmail (Fastmail), Calendar (Fastmail), Translate (Yandex Translate), *etc.* " +"YouTube remains as the most indispensable Google-owned web service. It is " +"really really hard to avoid consuming YouTube content. It was probably the " +"smartest startup acquisition ever. My privacy-oriented alternative is to " +"watch YouTube videos through Tor, which is technically feasible but not " +"polite to use the Tor bandwidth for these purposes. I'm still scratching my " +"head with this issue." +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"Even though I don't use most alternative services he mentions, I do watch " +"videos from YouTube. But I also feel uncomfortable logging in to YouTube " +"with a Google account, watching videos, creating playlists and similar " +"things." +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"Using the mobile app is worse: you can't even block ads in there. You're in " +"less control on what you share with YouTube and Google." +msgstr "" + +msgid "youtube-dl" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"youtube-dl is a command-line tool for downloading videos, from YouTube and " +"[many other sites](https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html):" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"It can be used to download individual videos as showed above, but it also " +"has some interesting flags that we can use:" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"`--output`: use a custom template to create the name of the downloaded file;" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"`--download-archive`: use a text file for recording and remembering which " +"videos were already downloaded;" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"`--prefer-free-formats`: prefer free video formats, like `webm`, `ogv` and " +"Matroska `mkv`;" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"`--playlist-end`: how many videos to download from a \"playlist\" (a " +"channel, a user or an actual playlist);" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"`--write-description`: write the video description to a `.description` file," +" useful for accessing links and extra content." +msgstr "" + +msgid "Putting it all together:" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"This will download the latest 20 videos from the selected channel, and write" +" down the video IDs in the `youtube-dl-seen.conf` file. Running it " +"immediately after one more time won't have any effect." +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"If the channel posts one more video, running the same command again will " +"download only the last video, since the other 19 were already downloaded." +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"With this basic setup you have a minimal subscription system at work, and " +"you can create some functions to help you manage that:" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"With these functions, you now can have a subscription fetching script to " +"download the latest videos from your favorite channels:" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"Now, whenever you want to watch the latest videos, just run the above script" +" and you'll get all of them in your local machine." +msgstr "" + +msgid "Tradeoffs" +msgstr "" + +msgid "I've made it for myself, with my use case in mind" +msgstr "" + +msgid "Offline" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"My internet speed it somewhat reasonable[^internet-speed], but it is really " +"unstable. Either at work or at home, it's not uncommon to loose internet " +"access for 2 minutes 3~5 times every day, and stay completely offline for a " +"couple of hours once every week." +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"Working through the hassle of keeping a playlist on disk has payed off many," +" many times. Sometimes I even not notice when the connection drops for some " +"minutes, because I'm watching a video and working on some document, all on " +"my local computer." +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"There's also no quality adjustment for YouTube's web player, I always pick " +"the higher quality and it doesn't change during the video. For some types of" +" content, like a podcast with some tiny visual resources, this doesn't " +"change much. For other types of content, like a keynote presentation with " +"text written on the slides, watching on 144p isn't really an option." +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"If the internet connection drops during the video download, youtube-dl will " +"resume from where it stopped." +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"This is an offline first benefit that I really like, and works well for me." +msgstr "" + +msgid "Sync the \"seen\" file" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"I already have a running instance of Nextcloud, so just dumping the " +"`youtube-dl-seen.conf` file inside Nextcloud was a no-brainer." +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"You could try putting it in a dedicated git repository, and wrap the script " +"with an autocommit after every run. If you ever had a merge conflict, you'd " +"simply accept all changes and then run:" +msgstr "" + +msgid "to tidy up the file." +msgstr "" + +msgid "Doesn't work on mobile" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"My primary device that I use everyday is my laptop, not my phone. It works " +"well for me this way." +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"Also, it's harder to add ad-blockers to mobile phones, and most mobile " +"software still depends on Google's and Apple's blessing." +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"If you wish, you can sync the videos to the SD card periodically, but that's" +" a bit of extra manual work." +msgstr "" + +msgid "The Good" +msgstr "" + +msgid "Better privacy" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"We don't even have to configure the ad-blocker to keep ads and trackers " +"away!" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"YouTube still has your IP address, so using a VPN is always a good idea. " +"However, a timing analysis would be able to identify you (considering the " +"current implementation)." +msgstr "" + +msgid "No need to self-host" +msgstr "" + +msgid "There's no host that needs maintenance. Everything runs locally." +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"As long as you keep youtube-dl itself up to date and sync your \"seen\" " +"file, there's little extra work to do." +msgstr "" + +msgid "Track your subscriptions with git" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"After creating a `subscriptions.sh` executable that downloads all the " +"videos, you can add it to git and use it to track metadata about your " +"subscriptions." +msgstr "" + +msgid "The Bad" +msgstr "" + +msgid "Maximum playlist size is your disk size" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"This is a good thing for getting a realistic view on your actual \"watch " +"later\" list. However I've run out of disk space many times, and now I need " +"to be more aware of how much is left." +msgstr "" + +msgid "The Ugly" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"We can only avoid all the bad parts of YouTube with youtube-dl as long as " +"YouTube keeps the videos public and programmatically accessible. If YouTube " +"ever blocks that we'd loose the ability to consume content this way, but " +"also loose confidence on considering YouTube a healthy repository of videos " +"on the internet." +msgstr "" + +msgid "Going beyond" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"Since you're running everything locally, here are some possibilities to be " +"explored:" +msgstr "" + +msgid "A playlist that is too long for being downloaded all at once" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"You can wrap the `download_playlist` function (let's call the wrapper " +"`inc_download`) and instead of passing it a fixed number to the `--playlist-" +"end` parameter, you can store the `$n` in a folder (something like " +"`$HOME/.yt-db/$PLAYLIST_ID`) and increment it by `$step` every time you run " +"`inc_download`." +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"This way you can incrementally download videos from a huge playlist without " +"filling your disk with gigabytes of content all at once." +msgstr "" + +msgid "Multiple computer scenario" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"The `download_playlist` function could be aware of the specific machine that" +" it is running on and apply specific policies depending on the machine: " +"always download everything; only download videos that aren't present " +"anywhere else; *etc.*" +msgstr "" + +msgid "Conclusion" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"youtube-dl is a great tool to keep at hand. It covers a really large range " +"of video websites and works robustly." +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"Feel free to copy and modify this code, and [send me](mailto:{{ " +"site.author.email }}) suggestions of improvements or related content." +msgstr "" + +msgid "*Edit*" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"[^internet-speed]: Considering how expensive it is and the many ways it " +"could be better, but also how much it has improved over the last years, I " +"say it's reasonable." +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnMYZnY3uLA\n" +"[youtube] rnMYZnY3uLA: Downloading webpage\n" +"[youtube] rnMYZnY3uLA: Downloading video info webpage\n" +"[download] Destination: A Origem da Vida _ Nerdologia-rnMYZnY3uLA.mp4\n" +"[download] 100% of 32.11MiB in 00:12\n" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"$ youtube-dl \"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClu474HMt895mVxZdlIHXEA\" \\\n" +" --download-archive ~/Nextcloud/cache/youtube-dl-seen.conf \\\n" +" --prefer-free-formats \\\n" +" --playlist-end 20 \\\n" +" --write-description \\\n" +" --output \"~/Downloads/yt-dl/%(uploader)s/%(upload_date)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s\"\n" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"#!/bin/sh\n" +"\n" +"export DEFAULT_PLAYLIST_END=15\n" +"\n" +"download() {\n" +" youtube-dl \"$1\" \\\n" +" --download-archive ~/Nextcloud/cache/youtube-dl-seen.conf \\\n" +" --prefer-free-formats \\\n" +" --playlist-end $2 \\\n" +" --write-description \\\n" +" --output \"~/Downloads/yt-dl/%(uploader)s/%(upload_date)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s\"\n" +"}\n" +"export -f download\n" +"\n" +"\n" +"download_user() {\n" +" download \"https://www.youtube.com/user/$1\" ${2-$DEFAULT_PLAYLIST_END}\n" +"}\n" +"export -f download_user\n" +"\n" +"\n" +"download_channel() {\n" +" download \"https://www.youtube.com/channel/$1\" ${2-$DEFAULT_PLAYLIST_END}\n" +"}\n" +"export -f download_channel\n" +"\n" +"\n" +"download_playlist() {\n" +" download \"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=$1\" ${2-$DEFAULT_PLAYLIST_END}\n" +"}\n" +"export -f download_playlist\n" +msgstr "" + +msgid "" +"#!/bin/sh\n" +"\n" +"download_user ClojureTV 15\n" +"download_channel \"UCmEClzCBDx-vrt0GuSKBd9g\" 100\n" +"download_playlist \"PLqG7fA3EaMRPzL5jzd83tWcjCUH9ZUsbX\" 15\n" +msgstr "" + +msgid "$ uniq youtube-dl-seen.conf > youtube-dl-seen.conf\n" +msgstr "" + +msgid "2019-05-22: Fix spelling." +msgstr "" + +#~ msgid "2019/05/22: Fix spelling." +#~ msgstr "" |