[jimktrains2]

I was just thinking the other day of writing a small utility to download a YouTube video and metadata, stuff the metadata in a database, and be able to have a local, searchable copy of videos and channels I'd like to have for a while -- I don't trust they'll be around forever.

I was thinking it could be better if the utility would be more useful if it integrated with mythtv, but I might start as a standalone.

[wongarsu]

Having a local, searchable version of some channels would be great, especially if it can be configured to download new videos automatically. Some channels are notorious for having videos deleted (e.g. commentary channels that have to fight with contentid or educational channels that have videos involving gunpowder or uranium). Manually backing them up and organizing the videos is very cumbersome.