• youtube-sync is a containerized daemon that downloads YouTube playlists.

• youtube-sync will check for updates from the listed YouTube playlists every day and download only new items.

• youtube-sync can download any YouTube playlists in a specified format (audio or video).

Essentially, it is containerized youtube-dl, working on a schedule.

• Create config.yml with the following content:

#Download audio only
- name: tensorflow_channel_audio
  playlist_url: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0rqucBdTuFTjJiefW5t-IQ/videos
  args: --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 # best quality
#or video
- name: tensorflow_channel_video
  playlist_url: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0rqucBdTuFTjJiefW5t-IQ/videos

• Then run docker:

mkdir downloads
docker run -d -v $PWD/downloads:/downloads -v $PWD/config.yml:/config.yml u1234x1234/youtube-sync:1.0.5

Ouput:

42fc565304fdd289c53e158152a772e321becbe152eec256434027008c5ac5eb

• To view logs:

docker logs 42fc565304fdd289c53e158152a772e321becbe152eec256434027008c5ac5eb