It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ifnbutsarecandynnuts on 2025-04-27 15:53:31.

I would like to save offline copies of a few dozen of my favorite channels, size is not a concern I'd like it to download every video at the highest resolution and flac audio if available. I tried using a gui off github called scrawler which uses yt-dlp and I quite liked the ui ease of use for a novice like me, it worked on a few smaller 50 video channels but as soon as I added a larger 1000+ video channel it seems to have been flagged by yt as a bot and stopped downloading cache files.

I have a few channels with 3000+ videos I'd like to download, I'm not so rushed on it I'm happy to run a script at a slower pace. I was hoping I could get the scrawler gui working for me as I'm really not great at understanding/reading/deciding between all the command line options.

Desired output;

1. highest res available + flac audio if available, otherwise next best option
2. video upload date + channel name in start of file name

Thank you for any help or suggestions you could provide.