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MrS0m30n3 / youtube-dl-gui

A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython.
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[QUESTION] How do I create a download log to avoid double downloads after deleting previous files from the download folder? #287

Closed samsepiol59 closed 6 years ago

samsepiol59 commented 6 years ago

Hi there,

basically what I'm doing is using youtube-dlg on Ubuntu 16.04 to download all videos from a certain channel and then upload said videos to a cloud service, as a way or archiving them. After uploading the videos, I delete them from my disk.

What I'd love to do is being able to create some kind of text archive (or whatever works), so that I don't re-download files I've already downloaded the next time I try to download videos from the same channel - basically, only download the videos released between the current download and the previous one! Is it possible?!

PS I've already got this in the command line arguments in the options -f bestvideo[ext=mp4][width<=1920][heigth<=1080]+bestaudio --merge-output-format mkv

nodiscc commented 6 years ago

Hi @samsepiol59 please check https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui/issues/194 where I suggested using the --download-archive option from the command-line sttings under the advanced settings tab. Basically you could define a central archive.txt file whih references all videos you downloaded. Videos/IDs already present in this file would not be re-downloaded in future attempts.

Let me know if this answers your question.

samsepiol59 commented 6 years ago

Thanks!! so I should just add the --download-archive archive.txtafter mkv and that would do it?!

EDIT: works great, thanks!