From 8b40f8dc3fd6fc851a39dc3c32a1672f07d19ab6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Bocken Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 08:34:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] added explanation to quota issue with YT to ripper --- .local/bin/tools/ripper | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/.local/bin/tools/ripper b/.local/bin/tools/ripper index f105fc7..9edbb9e 100755 --- a/.local/bin/tools/ripper +++ b/.local/bin/tools/ripper @@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ #A script that checks multiple youtube and bitchute channels for new videos to download via youtube-dl #This script works considerably faster than just giving youtube-dl a channel URI. #The YouTube implementation now uses a YoutubeData API v3 key to work more reliably. +#This can be quite quota taxing, as each channel search is 1% of the allotted qutoa for the day. +#-> checking n YT channels => n% of daily quota required to run this script +#Keep this in mind when running it as a cronjob #Either insert this key in plain text below at the variable "APIKEY" or do it via ENV vars or a password manager #Since bitchute still doesn't have an API I'm using lynx to emulate a user. #This can limit the number of recent videos available. For a whole download of bitchute channels consider other methods first.