‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked on the algorithm (2019)

Re:‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked ... by beepboop43 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @09:26PM (#25524525)

Just curious, do you download them one at a time or do you have a "system" for handling them?

I ask because this seems like a great idea. I've already written a script to read from a list and download and now I'm wondering if I don't just use use that instead of "watch later" going forward. Curious if you do anything beyond adding them one at a time I should consider before changing my approach.

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Re:‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked ... by scrollaway on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @10:45PM (#25524861)

FYI youtube-dl can download playlists. I heavily suspect you can even use --continue to download missing updated bits in a playlist you previously downloaded

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Re:‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked ... by beepboop43 on Thursday December 24, 2020 @01:56AM (#25525565)

Good point on the playlists, it hadn't dawned on me that 'watch later' is a playlist. Haven't tried continue, in the past I've created a 'downloaded.txt' file which gets updated as files download and then checked before it runs again so it doesn't try to re-download them.

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Re:‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked ... by scrollaway on Thursday December 24, 2020 @11:43AM (#25529015)

Yeah you don't need that downloaded.txt, youtube-dl can do that all on its own with the right flags :)

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