Create a folder where you want your videos downloaded in a drive where you have Gigabytes/Terabytes of space available (**Warning for Windows users**: try to keep a short path length like `C:\YouTube-DL` otherwise you will hit the Windows path length limit (255 characters) when downloading videos with long title, [See](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/23154) for more details)
Put the folders `Arctive Scripts` and `Archive Scripts` of your OS in the created folder (Read the section named "[Archive and Active Scripts?](https://gitlab.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-YouTube-DL-Archivist-Scripts#archive-and-active-scripts)" to understand the differences)
Add content to a 'Source - XXXXXX.txt' file depending of what type of content you want to download (Read the section named "[Channels, Playlists and Unique Scripts?](https://gitlab.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-YouTube-DL-Archivist-Scripts#channels-playlists-and-unique-scripts)" to understand the differences)
(Windows) Open CMD/Powershell in the folder of the script you want to use and run `[SCRIPT].bat`**or** Open a `.bat` file directly (Note: if you open a `.bat` file directly, the CMD/Powershell window will automatically close when the script is finished)
These dates will need to be incremented every year January 1 and the content created by the active scripts will need to be moved to the archive (including the `archive.log` that will need to be merged).
`--format "(bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][height>=1080][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9.2][height>=1080][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9][height>=1080][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][height>=1080]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9.2][height>=1080]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9][height>=1080]/bestvideo[height>=1080]/bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][height>=720][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9.2][height>=720][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9][height>=720][fps>30]/bestvideo[vcodec^=av01][height>=720]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9.2][height>=720]/bestvideo[vcodec=vp9][height>=720]/bestvideo[height>=720]/bestvideo)+(bestaudio[acodec=opus]/bestaudio)/best"` : Courtesy of [Veloldo](https://redd.it/c6fh4x), tell youtube-dl to download the best quality available prioritizing the most compressed/recent codecs
`--verbose` : Tell youtube-dl to print various debugging information
`--force-ipv4` : Tell youtube-dl to use IPv4, needed because lots of hosting and VPNs providers don't support IPv6.
`--ignore-errors` : Tell youtube-dl to continue on download errors (for example to skip unavailable videos in a playlist)
`--no-continue` : Tell youtube-dl not to resume partially downloaded files and to restart from the beginning (Mainly to avoid corruption)
`--no-overwrites` : Tell youtube-dl not to overwrite existing files (Useful when metadata has already been downloaded)
`--download-archive archive.log` : Tell youtube-dl to write every video that has been downloaded in `archive.log` to automatically skip them next time the script is started
`--add-metadata` : Tell youtube-dl to write metadata to the video files
`--write-description` : Tell youtube-dl to write video description to a `.description` file
`--write-info-json` : Tell youtube-dl to write video metadata to a `.info.json` file
`--write-annotations` : Tell youtube-dl to write video annotations to a `.annotations.xml` file
`--write-thumbnail` : Tell youtube-dl to write thumbnail image to disk
`--embed-thumbnail` : Tell youtube-dl to embed thumbnail in the audio as cover art (only useful when downloading audio-only content like podcast)
`--all-subs` : Tell youtube-dl to download all the available subtitles of the video
`--sub-format "srt"` : Tell youtube-dl to prioritize `.srt` subtitles
`--embed-subs` : Tell youtube-dl to embed subtitles in the video
(Channels Scripts) `--output "%(uploader)s/%(uploader)s - %(upload_date)s - %(title)s/%(uploader)s - %(upload_date)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"` : Tell youtube-dl to download the videos in folders and subfolders, using the naming scheme `Uploader/Uploader - 20191231 - Title/Uploader - 20191231 - Title.ext`
(Playlists Scripts) `--output "%(playlist)s (%(uploader)s)/%(upload_date)s - %(title)s/%(upload_date)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"` : Tell youtube-dl to download the videos in folders and subfolders, using the naming scheme `PlaylistName - Uploader/20191231 - Title/20191231 - Title.ext`
