Archive online videos and metadata to the Internet Archive with Tubeup

Download a supported video URL with yt-dlp and upload the preserved file plus metadata to archive.org as a repeatable preservation job.

Prerequisites

Python 3.10+, pipx, yt-dlp, ffmpeg, Deno, Internet Archive account

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• pipx ensurepath
• Use pipx to install the required python packages.
• pipx install "yt-dlp[default,curl-cffi]" internetarchive tubeup
• pipx upgrade-all ; deno upgrade

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• Linux VPS with Python 3.10 or higher and pipx installed
• Install ffmpeg, pip3 (typically python3-pipx or in Arch python-pipx), and Deno (external java script support required by yt-dlp for Youtube extractor).

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• tubeup uses yt-dlp to download a Youtube video (or any other provider supported by yt-dlp), and then uploads it with all metadata to the Internet Archi...

• This script strongly recommends Linux or some sort of POSIX system (such as macOS), preferably from a rented VPS and not your personal machine or phone.

• Reccomended system specifications:

• Source: https://github.com/bibanon/tubeup

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bibanon/tubeup/HEAD/README.md

Documentation

• https://github.com/bibanon/tubeup

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange