Вышло браузерное расширение + локальный сервер для автоматического архивирования роликов с YouTube! 💾 Теперь можно сохранять любимые видео навсегда — даже если их удалят или изменят. Просто смотришь клип → расширение само скачивает его в фоне и сохраняет метаданные. Идеально для создания личной медиатеки или исследовательской базы! ⚡️ Из минусов: пока нет облачного хранилища, но локально работает на ура. Код открытый, можно кастомизировать под свои нужды. Хакерский подход к контенту!
- Starchive
- A browser extension and local backend system that automatically archives YouTube videos when visited. The system consists of a Firefox extension that detects YouTube video pages and a Go backend that downloads the videos using yt-dlp.
- Components
- Backend (Go)
- HTTP Server
- (
- main.go
- ): Runs on port 3009 with two endpoints:
- /
- Basic health check endpoint /youtube
- POST endpoint that accepts video IDs and triggers downloads Video Downloader ( youtube.go ): Uses yt-dlp and ffmpeg to download YouTube videos and convert them to MOV format with h264_videotoolbox encoding Subtitle Support
- Downloads English subtitles in VTT format (currently disabled in retry loop) Browser Extension (Firefox) Manifest ( manifest.json ): Defines extension permissions and structure Content Script ( content.js ): Automatically detects YouTube video pages and extracts video IDs from URLs Background Script ( background.js ): Handles communication between content script and backend API Popup Interface ( popup.html/js ): Provides a simple UI for manual data fetching How It Works When you visit a YouTube video page, the content script automatically detects the video ID from the URL The video ID is sent to the background script, which makes a POST request to http://localhost:3009/youtube The Go backend receives the video ID and uses yt-dlp to download the video Videos are saved to the ./data/ directory and converted to MOV format using ffmpeg with hardware acceleration The system also supports subtitle downloading (though currently limited to 1 attempt) Setup Start the Go backend: go run . Load the Firefox extension from the firefox/ directory Visit any YouTube video page to automatically trigger archiving Dependencies yt-dlp
- For downloading YouTube videos ffmpeg
- For video format conversion and processing Go
- Backend server runtime Other Starchive Not associated with
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