YouTube Community Contributions Archiving Worker

Worker for the Save Community Captions project: Archiving unpublished YouTube community-contributions.

Setup

To run these tools you will need to supply session cookies (SSID,HSID,SID) see the tutorial for more details.

Primary Usage

Heroku⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Minimal Setup! Minimal Maintence!)

A wrapper repo for free and easy deployment and environment configuration, as well automatic updates every 24-27.6 hours is available. Deploy up to 5 instances of it to a free Heroku account (total max monthly runtime 550 hours) with no need for credit card verification by clicking the button below.

Archiving Worker⭐️

After completing the above setup steps, simply run

python3 worker.py

Docker image⭐️⭐️

Stable Docker Image:

docker pull fusl/ytcc-archive

Run:

docker container run --restart=unless-stopped --network=host -d --tmpfs /grab/out --name=grab_ext-yt-communitycontribs -e HSID=XXX-e SID=XXX -e SSID=XXX -e TRACKER_USERNAME=Fusl -e PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 fusl/ytcc-archive

Bonus Features

Export Captions and Titles/Descriptions Manually

Simply run python3 exporter.py followed by a list of space-separated YouTube video IDs, and all community-contributed captioning and titles/descriptions in all languages will be exported.

Discover Videos Manually

Simply run python3 discovery.py followed by a list of space-separated YouTube video IDs and a list of discovered video, channel and playlist IDs will be printed, as well as whether caption contributions are enabled.

Stats

See how much has been archived so far.

• https://atdash.meo.ws/d/attv2/archive-team-tracker-charts-v2?orgId=1&var-project=ext-yt-communitycontribs
• https://tracker.archiveteam.org/ext-yt-communitycontribs/