Tube archivist download video and audio
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dotinho · 2023-12-05 20:20

Hi guys,

When driving I like to like to listen podcasts and some YouTube
videos.

Right now I open invidious and download as audio.

Today I got my eyes on Tube Archivists, it’s nice because of
subscription of playlist and channels.
But it was even better if download video and audio separated, it’s
possible?

Thank you.

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pairofcrocs · 2023-12-06 00:08

It's not possible yet.


I don't want to promise anything, but we do have a couple of users
that are talking about developing this feature on our Discord right
now.

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Only_CORE · 2023-12-06 09:17

I too listen to Youtube podcasts on my way to work and I use Podsync.
I have it setup that when for example video from LinusTechTips
contains "WAN Show" in the title, it automatically  downloads it. The
app creates an RSS feed which I then set in my podcast app on my phone
(Podcast Addict) where it will also automatically download.

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dotinho · 2023-12-06 09:58

Seems very interesting, I’m going look it.

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syeopite · 2023-12-08 01:05

By separate audio and video do you mean, two files where one is just a
silent video and the other is just the audio? Or do you mean having
both the video (with included audio) and also a separate audio file?

If you're comfortable with the command line, I'd recommend just using
yt-dlp which can easily accomplish this.

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dotinho · 2023-12-08 08:23

Yes, 2 files. The standard video to see on PC or tv and audio to
listen on phone, during car etc.

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dotinho · 2023-12-08 16:39

Alright, with configuration I’m downloading audio only has I want.

About file name, it’s possible instead of files keep original names,
but channel and title names?

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syeopite · 2023-12-13 15:02

In that case `yt-dlp "https://youtube.com/watch?v=ID" -x -k` will do
what you want and in all combinations actually!

It'll create an audio file and a video file with both the audio and
video, as well as two intermediate files that'd contain only the audio
and video.

Explanation

```
yt-dlp [url] -x (extract audio) -k (keep intermediate files)
```