A web extension & program to sync YT playlists into directories on your disk.

This repo is split between two projects:

• src/extension - A React web extension, built with webpack.
• src/program - A Rust program, used as a local webserver to run yt-dlp.

Features

• 🧩 Trigger the download in-browser for all playlists starting with a "/"
• 📥 Download only the missing files to your disk
• 📤 Remove files that are no longer in the playlist
• 🚅 Download up to 10 videos concurrently
• 📛 Rename downloaded files to anything you want
• 📁 Unlimited nested directory support via playlist name

Installation / Usage

The web extension will fetch all playlists from Youtube that have a title starting with a "/" (ex: "/Mood/Jamming") and send it to the program to download into directories.

0. Have ffmpeg and yt-dlp installed on your PATH.
1. Download the Chrome/Firefox extension and executable here.
2. Install the web extension. Open it, and paste in your Download Directory path. (ex: "X:\Some Useful Stuff\Music\Stream")
3. Run slash-playlist.exe.
4. Navigate to https://www.youtube.com/feed/playlists. Press Fetch and Download in the extension.
5. Monitor the slash-playlist.exe prompt to see download progress.

Development

Use npm run extension-build and npm run program-build to build each project.