[FR] Manually download from multiple sources via dashboard

[daftz]

Some of my sources provide great content while others release something interesting once in a while.

It would be nice to have a dashboard with the latest released (not downloaded) videos from all my resources and have the option to download videos manually.

Maybe enhance the current dashboard with a "Downloaded Y/N" column and per row the option to start a download directly.

Saves some bandwidth and storage that way.

Thanks for considering this request and for making this great tool 👍

[ItsNoted]

Or a way to add a specific video to the source that does not meet the cutoff date. Maybe plug the link to the video in and hit download?

[kieraneglin]

Hey there! Thanks for the suggestion (:

I think I like the sound of this! I won't be able to get to this for a while, but when I have the time I'll workshop some approaches here and see what I can come up with 🤙

@ItsNoted unless I'm misunderstanding, you should be able to do that! The indexing step will catalogue all of a source's videos, regardless of cutoff date (filters like cutoff date are only applied to downloading). If you go to a given source, click the "other" tab, and search for a video you should be able to manually force a download. I'm working on a way to improve the bulk-download experience but that's still a ways away from being completed

[danielr]

I would like to second this suggestion.

A bit of context why: I currently use Tube Archivist and I really like its queue feature. All new videos from subscribed channels/playlists appear there, and you can manually select for each of them whether it should be downloaded or ignored.

As @daftz said, channels are very different. Some release a video occasionally and I'm interested in all of them. But some release either too often or I'm only interested in a small subset of the videos. So having this "queue"/"triage" option for some sources, but not for others, would be amazing.

[ItsNoted]

@ItsNoted unless I'm misunderstanding, you should be able to do that! The indexing step will catalogue all of a source's videos, regardless of cutoff date (filters like cutoff date are only applied to downloading). If you go to a given source, click the "other" tab, and search for a video you should be able to manually force a download. I'm working on a way to improve the bulk-download experience but that's still a ways away from being completed

Oh that's great to know! I must have overlooked this when I was looking for that in the settings.

Thanks!

[CorroPenny]

To add to this, I'd love to recommend a similar feature, one-time downloads. I subscribe to a creator on Patreon who sends subscribers a YouTube link to an unlisted video. Right now with TubeArchivist I can manually download just one video, and it works perfectly for that use case. I also occasionally use it for videos I think have a chance of being removed from the platform.

I'd love a one-time download feature similar to this :)

[kieraneglin]

@CorroPenny I think that's a separate issue. Would you mind trying this out? That's what I use to download one-off videos and it works well!