Hn: Selectively Download Videos, Channels, Playlists
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A GitHub project sharing a tool to selectively download YouTube videos, channels, and playlists, with discussion around potential feature enhancements.
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Do you plan on pulling other video artifacts available (when applicable) such as live chat, transcriptions/subtitles, etc? Can channels, playlists, etc be downloaded as JSON blobs?