#Tartube

Tartube is a GUI front-end for youtube-dl, partly based on youtube-dl-gui and written in Python 3 / Gtk 3.

Tartube is the alpha software. It crashes a lot. If you find this frustrating, find a solution and then send it to me.

##Why should I use Tartube?

• You can download individual videos, and even whole channels and playlists, from hundreds of different websites
• You can fetch information about those videos, channels and playlists, without actually downloading anything
• Tartube will organise your videos into convenient folders
• Certain popular video websites manipulate search results, repeatedly unsubscribe people from their favourite channels and/or deliberately conceal videos which challenge the Californian political consensus. Tartube won't do any of those things
• Tartube can, in some circumstances, see videos that are region-blocked and age-restricted

Requirements

• A working installation of youtube-dl
• Python 3+
• Gtk 3+
• Python validators module optional, but recommended
• Python moviepy module optional

##Downloads

• Source from sourceforge.io
• Source from github

##Installation

###Install from source

1. Download & extract the source
2. Change directory into the Tartube directory
3. Run python setup.py install

###Install using PyPI

1. Run pip install tartube

###Install using MS Windows Installer There is no installer for MS Windows yet.

###Run without installing

1. Download & extract the source
2. Change directory into the Tartube directory
3. Run 'python tartube.py'

##Frequently-Asked Questions Q: I can't install Tartube!

A: I have no experience of writing in Python and I'm still working it out for myself. Contact me on the Github issues page if you can do better than me.

Q: I can't run Tartube!

A: See above.

Q: Tartube doesn't work properly!

A: See above.

Q: Tartube keeps crashing!

A: See above.

Q: How do I use Tartube?

A: Assuming that Tartube is installed and running correctly, then you should start by checking that youtube-dl is also installed and running correctly.

• Click Operations > Update youtube-dl

There are several locations on your filesystem where youtube-dl might have been installed. If the update operation fails, you should try modifying Tartube's settings.

• Click Edit > System preferences...
• Click the youtube-dl tab
• Try changing the setting 'Actual path to use during download/update/refresh operations'
• Try changing the setting 'Shell command for update operations'
• Try the update operation again

On the left side of the Tartube window is a list of folders. You can store videos, channels and playlists inside these folders. You can even store folders inside of other folders.

Tartube saves videos on your filesystem using exactly the same structure.

When you start Tartube, there are five folders already visible. You can't remove any of these folders (but you can hide them, if you want).

Videos saved to the 'Temporary Videos' folder are deleted when Tartube shuts down.

Once you've finished adding videos, channels, playlists and folders, there are four things Tartube can do:

• 'Check' - Fetch information about videos, but don't download them
• 'Download' - Actually download the videos. If you have disabled downloads for a particular item, Tartube will just fetch information about it instead
• 'Update' - Updates youtube-dl, as described above
• 'Refresh' - Examines your filesystem. If you have manually copied any videos into Tartube's data directory, those videos are added to Tartube's database

Protip: Do an 'Update' operation before you do a 'Check' or 'Download' operation

Protip: Do a 'Check' operation before you do 'Refresh' operation

youtube-dl offers a large number of download options. This is how to set them.

• Click Edit > General download options...

Any changes you make in the new window aren't actually applied until you click the 'Apply' or 'OK' buttons.

Those are the default download options. If you want to apply a different set of download options to a particular channel or particular playlist, you can do so.

For example, suppose you have added these folders and channels:

    Comedy folder
        CollegeHumor channel
        PewDiePie channel
    Politics folder
        Liberal folder
            The Young Turks channel
        Conservative folder
            Joe Rogan channel
            Mark Dice channel

The general download options apply to all of these channels. Now, suppose you apply some download options to the Politics folder:

• Right-click the folder, and select Apply download options...

Tartube's database now looks something like this:

    Comedy folder
        CollegeHumor channel
        PewDiePie channel
    ++Politics folder
        Liberal folder
            The Young Turks channel
        Conservative folder
            Joe Rogan channel
            Mark Dice channel

The new download options (marked ++) apply to everything inside the Politics folder - The Young Turks, Joe Rogan and Mark Dice.

Now, suppose you add another set of download options (marked @@) to the Conservative folder:

    Comedy folder
        CollegeHumor channel
        PewDiePie channel
    **Politics folder
        Liberal folder
            The Young Turks channel
        @@Conservative folder
            Joe Rogan channel
            Mark Dice channel

These new download options only apply to Joe Rogan and Mark Dice. They don't apply to The Young Turks, which are still using the previous set of download options. They don't apply to CollegeHumor or PewDiePie, which are still using the default download options.

##Future plans

• Fix the endless crashes, somehow
• Support for multiple databases (so you can store videos on two external hard drives at the same time)
• Add download scheduling
• Add video archiving
• Allow selection of multiple videos in the catalogue, so the same action can be applied to all of them at the same time
• Tie channels and playlists together, so that they won't both download the same video
• Add tooltips for everything
• Add more youtube-dl options

##Known issues

• Tartube crashes continuously and often
• Alphabetic sorting of channels/playlists/folders doesn't always work as intended, due to an unresolved Gtk issue
• Channels/playlists/folder selection does not always work as intended, due to an unresolved Gtk issue
• Users can type in comboboxes, but this should not be possible

##Contributing

• Report a bug: Use the Github issues page

Authors

See the AUTHORS file.

License

Tartube is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

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