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Tube Archivist#

Welcome to the official Tube Archivist Docs. This is an up-to-date documentation of user functionality.

Getting Started#

  1. Subscribe to some of your favourite YouTube channels.
  2. Scan subscriptions to add the latest videos to the download queue.
  3. Add additional videos, channels or playlist - ignore the ones you don't want to download.
  4. Download and let Tube Archivist do it's thing.
  5. Sit back and enjoy your archived and indexed collection!

General Navigation#

  • Clicking on the channel name or the channel icon brings you to the dedicated channel page to show videos from that channel.
  • Clicking on a video title brings you to the dedicated video page and shows additional details.
  • Clicking on a video thumbnail opens the video player and starts streaming the selected video.
  • Clicking on the search icon gridview icon will open a dedicated search page to search over your complete index.
  • The pagination - if available - builds links for up to 10'000 results, use the search, sort or filter functionality to find what you are looking for.

Watched State#

An empty checkbox icon unseen icon will show for videos you haven't marked as watched. Click on it and the icon will change to a filled checkbox seen icon indicating it as watched - click again to revert.

Display layout#

  • gridview icon: Gridview icon will display the list in a grid. A grid row holds 3 items by default.
    • listview icon: On larger screens, the plus icon adds more items to the grid row.
    • listview icon: The minus icon reduces items per row.
  • listview icon: The list view arranges the items in a list.
  • gridview icon: The tableview will allow you to get technical information like video codec, audio codec, filesize and image resolution of the listed videos.

Sort#

Toggle sort options by clicking on the listview icon sort icon. This gives sort by options for:

  • Published: Date published
  • Downloaded: Date downloaded
  • Views: View count
  • Likes: Like count
  • Duration: Duration of the video
  • Media Size: Mediasize on disk
  • Width: In pixels
  • Height: In pixels

Additionally you can change the sort order to:

  • Desc: Descending
  • Asc: Ascending

Filter#

The filter icon gridview icon Shows options for filtering:

  • Watched state: Show watched only, unwatched only or all.
  • Types: By video types, that's regular videos, shorts or streams.
  • Height: Media file height in pixels. That is useful for upgrading video resolutions or to verify if you downloaded the expected resolution. Works best in table view: gridview icon.

Multiselect#

The multi select icon gridview icon allows you to select multiple videos to then apply actions in bulk.

  • Select/unselect videos individually by clicking on the checkbox overlay on the top left of the video thumbnail. In table view gridview icon, the select checkbox is in the first column.
  • An info box will indicate how many videos you have selected. The selection persists over page navigation and between different views.
  • In tableview gridview icon an additional "select all" checkbox is show, to select all videos visible. That is dependent on your Archive View Page Size.
  • The "clear" button will empty your selection.
  • To avoid confusion when multiselect is active, the watched checkbox is hidden.
  • Toggle the multiselect icon again to exit multiselect mode.

Then the actions currently supported:

Keyboard Shortcuts#

You can control the video player with the following keyboard shortcuts:

  • ?: Show help
  • p: Toggle play/pause
  • m: Toggle mute
  • f: Toggle fullscreen
  • c: Toggle subtitles if available
  • >: Increase playback speed
  • <: Decrease playback speed
  • ← (left arrow): Jump back 5 seconds
  • → (right arrow): Jump forward 5 seconds