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document youtube channels, not playlists

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The feeds for playlists seem pretty broken, since they have the oldest
items first and are truncated, so after a few dozen items, new items
never appear on them. Channel feeds don't currently have this breakage
(although perhaps Google will find a way to break them eventually..)
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@ -71,18 +71,18 @@ downloads upstream by podcatching to a server with ample bandwidth or work
around a slow local Internet connection by podcatching to your home server
and transferring to your laptop on demand.
## youtube playlists
## youtube channels
You can also use `git annex importfeed` on youtube playlists.
You can also use `git annex importfeed` on youtube channels.
It will use [youtube-dl](https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/) to automatically
download the videos linked to by the playlist.
download the videos.
To download a youtube playlist, you need to find the feed associated with that
playlist, and pass it to `git annex importfeed`. There does not seem to be
To download a youtube channel, you need to find the feed associated with that
channel, and pass it to `git annex importfeed`. There does not seem to be
an easy link anywhere to get the feed, but you can construct its url
manually. For a playlist like
"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4F80C7D2DC8D9B6C", the
feed is "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=PL4F80C7D2DC8D9B6C"
manually. For a channel url like
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/$foo", the
feed is "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=$foo"
## metadata

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@ -90,12 +90,12 @@ quality videos from YouTube. Note that the youtube-dl configuration files
are not read when git-annex runs youtube-dl, to avoid config settings that
break its integration.
To download a youtube playlist, you need to find the RSS feed associated with
that playlist, and pass it to `git annex importfeed`. There does not seem to
To download a youtube channel, you need to find the RSS feed associated with
that channel, and pass it to `git annex importfeed`. There does not seem to
be an easy link anywhere to get the RSS feed, but you can construct its url
manually. For a playlist like
"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4F80C7D2DC8D9B6C", the
feed is "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=PL4F80C7D2DC8D9B6C"
manually. For a channel like
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/$foo", the
feed is "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=$foo"
## bittorrent