youtube-likes-downloader

Download all liked videos from youtube

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Prerequisites

• Have yt-dlp installed.
• Be familiar with Google API console and know how to create project with credentials here

Installation

git clone https://github.com/anmiles/youtube-likes-downloader.git
cd youtube-likes-downloader
npm clean-install
npm run build

Adding profiles

This application may work with multiple profiles (download videos liked from multiple youtube accounts).

1. Come up with any profile name you want
2. Execute npm run create <profile>

You can create as many profiles as you want.

Authentication

• npm run login to login into all existing profiles
• npm run login <profile> to login into selected profile

Downloading

• npm start to download all liked videos for all profiles
• npm start <profile> will download all liked videos for selected profile

This will never re-download already download ones, just add newly liked ones. File names are being checked for validity (and renamed if needed).

1. Automatic download by schedule
   • Schedule task that will run npm start periodically
2. Manual download
   • Run npm start manually. If needed, it will interact with you to retrieve credentials if you still didn't run npm run login in advance

Validating

• npm run check to just validate all filenames
• npm run check <profile> will validate all filenames for selected profile

Updating

• npm run update to update likes playlist with videos from likes file
• npm run update <profile> will update likes playlist for selected profile

Likes will be exported in reversed order because likes playlist is ordered "newest first". Existing likes won't be affected. This might be useful for copying likes from one profile to another:

• run npm start <profile1> to get likes imported from selected profile
• copy likes file to another one using name of another profile
• run npm run update <profile2> to export likes into another profile