Youtube-dl keep the video id.
Use playlist or channel ids in foldernames for series libraries.
Movies library can match with filename but the video id in brackets of any youtube video filename would help.
The readme for the scanner and/or agent should have the format documented
So:
\youtube
\channel + id
\playlist + id
\video + id
Is this correct?
Do all videos need to be in a playlist, or could I recognize them standalone, as their own show?
Do all playlists need to be in a channel, or could I make a playlist into a show?
If I made a playlist of random videos that I found funny, and placed them in a folder \youtube\funny, is there a way I could make them appear nicely with this agent?
Thanks!
Video Id in each file should allow fallback or episode metadata.
Playlist id allow to have series information and use the scanner to have the ordering right
You can give playlist URL to youtube-dl and that is it, files will be tagged property.
What are the playlist Id first letters
Thanks! So what would I need to change to have the ID for the channel, playlist and video here?
youtube-dl -v --dateafter 20181004 --download-archive /volume1/Youtube/.Downloaded -i -o “/volume1/YouTube/%(uploader)s/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s” -f bestvideo+bestaudio -ci --batch-file=/volume1/Youtube/Channels_to_DL.txt
I’m a bit confused by which part needs the %(id) bit (one part or many?). I think that would only cover the video ID and not the playlist one, right?
i do not use scripting with youtubedl, just paste the playlist ling on it and files are nammed properly. I rename the folder manualyl. That’s a question for youtubedl support, am sorry but cannot help further there
Thanks. I eventually figured it out! I ended up making this command:
youtube-dl -v --dateafter 20081004 --download-archive /volume1/Youtube/.Downloaded -i -o “/volume1/Youtube/%(uploader)s [%(channel_id)s]/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s” -f bestvideo+bestaudio -ci --batch-file=/volume1/Youtube/Channels_to_DL.txt
Which gives me files in this format:
Youtube\Errant Signal [UCm4JnxTxtvItQecKUc4zRhQ]\001 - Thanksgiving Leftovers - Battlefield V [Qgdr8xdqGDE]
Where Errant Signal is the name of the channel, and then the video title.
I’m using this script to download both channels and playlists, they all end up in the format above.
I’m running into some issues however:
Any idea how I can avoid those issues?
By the way, your work has really transformed how I consume Youtube videos. Really good work! I’d say about 90% of what it scanned has worked great. It’s so much better than just adding videos in Plex.
video id correct and match code format…
You are also using my scanner, right?
I need the agent logs to know if thumbnail generated from video or downloaded.
Ok so I’m running into an issue, the scanner (Absolute Series Scanner) seems to only recognize files if they are in 1 folder down, if I do the UC or PL in the root folder, then put the videos inside, all is good. But if I do as recommended and do UC\PL\Videos it doesn’t find any of the videos.
Any idea what’s going wrong here?
would need scanner logs then, the ones generated in hama agent data folders
I updated my Absolute Series Scanner and Youtube Agent and now the videos were detected properly. The thumbnails are still wrong though, for example: https://imgur.com/a/SC11TsM
Edit: I’ve just noticed the correct thumbnail is downloaded. If I click Edit and go to Poster, the correct poster is there, but it’s the second poster. The default poster is something else. Any idea how to fix this?
This may be due to the wrong ep number being allocated by the scanner and the agent assigned the wrong thumbnail.
Once corrected the right screenshot downloads but the old one stays active
Remove all EPs and do the Plex dance (rescan, clean bundles, optimise) then put them back and re-scan.
You were right. The Plex dance fixed every name and every thumbnail, except for one folder:
What do you think is causing this?
Need scanner and agents logs to root cause.
Still playing with this nice addition, but I’m getting odd and unexpected results.
So I tried the youtube2 mode, for seasons by year. But it seems to randomly apply the videos to the wrong year. Videos posted in 2014, will show up in Season 2018, so this doesn’t make sense to me.
Also it seems to make the most recent video Episode 1, I’m not sure what happens if a new video is added, do all the videos get shift down? So Episode 1 because Episode 2?
Hi There,
Your agent and scanner is exactly what i’ve been looking for to get my downloaded youtube videos into plex neatly.
My “Channels” library works fine, with all of a youtubers videos directly within their folder, this shows in plex with Channel Name as Series name & the seasons split into years.
My “Playlists” library doesn’t seem to work. I’d ideally like the Channel Name, then playlist then videos, i’ve read that the Channel Name is the collection, playlist is series & then a single season with all episodes inside. Unfortunately none of my “Series” have the “Collection” tag filled in.
Example of my files:
└───SoundmanCA [UC_ojrdK0jMGKFduQuDcyanw]
├───Amplified Season 1 [PLB1063EAB37E62353]
│ Amplified - Air Bagged Dodge Ram iPad install. Custom Box JL Audio system EP 9 - [tDQD8kyTMv4].mkv
│
├───Amplified Season 2 [PL8C789F10C2CCD4CE]
│ Amplified - 22, 'Season 2 Premiere' @SoundManCA - [zs6h3K9wzjs].mkv
│
└───Amplified Season 3 [PL4AAD4FE51CB83C5F]
Accent Lighting installed in a Honda fit, Hertz Audio HE4 Ford Ranger, Amplified 72 - [Ag6EFWerBPc].mkv
Should this be filling out the collection field or is my format incorrect?
The below makes me believe that it should be?
“/Channel [UCxxxxxxxxx]/Playlist [PLxxxxxxx]/video [xxxxxxx].ext should create Playlist as Series and Channel as Collection”
Thank you for your help
The issue im having is plex recognizes the files but the problem is it names the channel after the name of the playlist. So i have this on my google drive,
But plex just shows
Here is a bit of my scanner log file
=============================================================================================================================================================
Library: 'no valid X-Plex-Token.id', root: '/mnt/gdrive/youtube', path: 'VanossGaming [UCKqH_9mk1waLgBiL2vT5b9g]', files: '0', dirs: '1'
Plex scan start: 2019-03-19 05:22:10,471053
=============================================================================================================================================================
Forced ID (series folder) - source: "youtube", id: "UCKqH_9mk1waLgBiL2vT5b9g"
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
files_per_date: ['Dead Realm Funny Moments [PLxV_ER5SmeVaHvnq3sAFapOwQKbTBUL9L]']
misc_count: {'': 1}
misc_words: []
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[no files detected] #1
=============================================================================================================================================================
Plex scan end: 2019-03-19 05:22:10,471984
=============================================================================================================================================================
Library: 'no valid X-Plex-Token.id', root: '/mnt/gdrive/youtube', path: 'VanossGaming [UCKqH_9mk1waLgBiL2vT5b9g]/Dead Realm Funny Moments [PLxV_ER5SmeVaHvnq3sAFapOwQKbTBUL9L]', files: '9', dirs: '0'
Plex scan start: 2019-03-19 05:22:10,539079
=============================================================================================================================================================
Forced ID (series folder) - source: "youtube", id: "PLxV_ER5SmeVaHvnq3sAFapOwQKbTBUL9L"
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
exception: list index out of range
[ 0] https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet&maxResults=50&playlistId=PLxV_ER5SmeVaHvnq3sAFapOwQKbTBUL9L&key=XXXXXXXXXX
---- count: 9
[F6PNjz8t1-E] rank: 7 in file: Dead Realm - Bounty Funny Moments - New Butcher Ghost!-F6PNjz8t1-E.mp4
"Dead Realm Funny Moments [PLxV_ER5SmeVaHvnq3sAFapOwQKbTBUL9L]" s01e007 "YouTube" "Dead Realm: Bounty Funny Moments - New Butcher Ghost!" "Dead Realm - Bounty Funny Moments - New Butcher Ghost!-F6PNjz8t1-E.mp4"
[ByP9Vj5EjuM] rank: 3 in file: Dead Realm - Custom Characters & NEW Grandma Ghost!-ByP9Vj5EjuM.mp4
"Dead Realm Funny Moments [PLxV_ER5SmeVaHvnq3sAFapOwQKbTBUL9L]" s01e003 "YouTube" "Dead Realm - Custom Characters & NEW Grandma Ghost!" "Dead Realm - Custom Characters & NEW Grandma Ghost!-ByP9Vj5EjuM.mp4"
[Bq6KcOTxWOw] rank: 9 in file: Dead Realm - Seek and Reap Funny Moments! (Dead Realm Gameplay)-Bq6KcOTxWOw.mp4
"Dead Realm Funny Moments [PLxV_ER5SmeVaHvnq3sAFapOwQKbTBUL9L]" s01e009 "YouTube" "Dead Realm: Seek and Reap Funny Moments! (Dead Realm Gameplay)" "Dead Realm - Seek and Reap Funny Moments! (Dead Realm Gameplay)-$
[gWxrSlcyKAk] rank: 4 in file: Dead Realm Funny Moments - Arcade Seek & Reap!-gWxrSlcyKAk.mp4
"Dead Realm Funny Moments [PLxV_ER5SmeVaHvnq3sAFapOwQKbTBUL9L]" s01e004 "YouTube" "Dead Realm Funny Moments - Arcade Seek & Reap!" "Dead Realm Funny Moments - Arcade Seek & Reap!-gWxrSlcyKAk.mp4"
[GFj33oGXuEw] rank: 6 in file: Dead Realm Funny Moments - Epic Win! (Dead Realm Bounty Gameplay)-GFj33oGXuEw.mp4
"Dead Realm Funny Moments [PLxV_ER5SmeVaHvnq3sAFapOwQKbTBUL9L]" s01e006 "YouTube" "Dead Realm Funny Moments - Epic Win! (Dead Realm Bounty Gameplay)" "Dead Realm Funny Moments - Epic Win! (Dead Realm Bounty Gamep$
[t2VRcxq2b6s] rank: 2 in file: Dead Realm Funny Moments - Halloween Edition w_ New Clown Ghost!-t2VRcxq2b6s.mp4
"Dead Realm Funny Moments [PLxV_ER5SmeVaHvnq3sAFapOwQKbTBUL9L]" s01e002 "YouTube" "Dead Realm Funny Moments - Halloween Edition w/ New Clown Ghost!" "Dead Realm Funny Moments - Halloween Edition w_ New Clown Ghos$
[jcCHUKq8YlY] rank: 5 in file: Dead Realm Funny Moments - New PlayHouse Map!-jcCHUKq8YlY.mp4
"Dead Realm Funny Moments [PLxV_ER5SmeVaHvnq3sAFapOwQKbTBUL9L]" s01e005 "YouTube" "Dead Realm Funny Moments - New PlayHouse Map!" "Dead Realm Funny Moments - New PlayHouse Map!-jcCHUKq8YlY.mp4"
[9h49xvDxCwM] rank: 1 in file: Dead Realm Funny Moments - New Tomb Map!-9h49xvDxCwM.mp4
"Dead Realm Funny Moments [PLxV_ER5SmeVaHvnq3sAFapOwQKbTBUL9L]" s01e001 "YouTube" "Dead Realm Funny Moments - New Tomb Map!" "Dead Realm Funny Moments - New Tomb Map!-9h49xvDxCwM.mp4"
[X7F_ppcOqj4] rank: 8 in file: Dead Realm Funny Moments - Trap Doors! (Dead Realm Seek and Reap Gameplay)-X7F_ppcOqj4.mp4
"Dead Realm Funny Moments [PLxV_ER5SmeVaHvnq3sAFapOwQKbTBUL9L]" s01e008 "YouTube" "Dead Realm Funny Moments - Trap Doors! (Dead Realm Seek and Reap Gameplay)" "Dead Realm Funny Moments - Trap Doors! (Dead Realm S$
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Hi, I have a question about the folder structure. The Youtubers I download from are a bit behind on putting their videos in actual playlists, so the videos don’t have a playlist ID. Can I put them in a folder with a custom name or even just a season number and the scanner will still parse them right? So:
Show [UCxxx]/Custom Name/Video [ID]
ETA (7 Apr): I think I’ll just test this in practice and see how it goes. But is there any way for the scanner to change the “originally available” date in the Plex metadata to the date that matches the video publish date?
I just found this awesome scanner and agent. But I’ve got a couple questions that I have been running into
Is there any way to use this scraper or have it in the same library with all my other youtube files but still make it look nice? I’m baffled that Plex has completely ignored something that so many people want, and a quick option to allow us to use a simple way of archiving our own collections
@vertigo235 It should makes newest video the last so ep numbers don’t change at every new file. No logs…
@Miguel1993 Yes that’s how it is meant to work. No logs
@kwebber321 “exception: list index out of range” hummm bug here maybe the underscore in playlist? Files added in Plex so can be ignored for now… Did you set your library settings to show collections and hide items in collection?
Fantastic work! I’m glad to have found this project.
I’d like to adapt the agent to work with Plex audio (‘Music’) libraries. I reckon that not too much would need to be changed besides the video title being assigned to ‘album’ and the channel name to ‘artist.’ I was wondering if @ZeroQI or anybody else involved in development might give me some pointers.
