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1. Himbo Techbro (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 04:26:37 JST Himbo Techbro

   Idea: A tool that regularly grabs your YouTube history and hits it with yt-dlp, keeping up to X days or Y GB of an archive.

   Would you use it?

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   • Token (coin@asimon.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 04:26:36 JST Token

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     @r000t With the delete function after a while I'd probably use it.
   • Token (coin@asimon.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 04:29:55 JST Token

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     @r000t That's also a great feature to have. Maybe if there was a way to mark a video that you liked it enough to keep it when it closes?
     
     idk, maybe some would find it annoying for a pop up to question after every video... or maybe, make it an optional choice as well to ask you that... Damn, UX is hard.
   • Himbo Techbro (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 04:29:56 JST Himbo Techbro

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     • Token

     @coin If there was also a feature to say "hold on to this/this channel", what kind of way to signal that to the software would you find natural?

   • Token (coin@asimon.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 04:33:41 JST Token

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     @r000t You're right, I didn't think of that. Figures. I'm not a software engineer, ha.
     I guess if you'd like a video so much to keep it you would manually move it to a protected folder or something? I just don't know how to automate a dynamic choice like that.
   • Himbo Techbro (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 04:33:42 JST Himbo Techbro

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     • Token

     @coin well anything that's gonna "pop" doesn't quite make sense, because if this is a tool that just runs as a cron job every day or week or whatever, that may not even be the same device that the majority (or any) videos are watched on.

     In theory, this could be as simple as a shell script that wraps yt-dlp, and that means you could put it on a raspi or something and it just fetches things you watch on your phone or TV