ytd/README.md

ytd

YouTube daemon and CLI tool for crawling and processing channels with pre-configured commands vector.

This tool was initially created as a helper for the Pidpilne project, impressed by ytsub and rustypipe API.

Install

cargo install ytd

Usage

Foreground / testing:

RUST_LOG=trace cargo run -- -c example/config.toml

Background / daemon:

RUST_LOG=ytd=info NO_COLOR=1 /usr/local/bin/ytd -c /etc/config.toml

• make sure update option is defined (in the config file)

systemd

git clone https://codeberg.org/yggverse/ytd.git
cd ytd
cargo build --release --locked
sudo install target/release/ytd /usr/local/bin
sudo cp example/config.toml /etc/ytd.toml
sudo useradd -s /usr/sbin/nologin -Mr ytd
sudo mkdir /var/lib/ytd && sudo chown ytd:ytd /var/lib/ytd
sudo mkdir /var/log/ytd && sudo chown ytd:ytd /var/log/ytd

#/etc/systemd/system/ytd.service

[Unit]
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
User=ytd
Group=ytd

Environment="RUST_LOG=ytd=warn"
Environment="NO_COLOR=1"

# Environment="HTTP_PROXY=socks5://127.0.0.1:1080"
# Environment="HTTPS_PROXY=socks5://127.0.0.1:1080"

WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/ytd

ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ytd -c=/etc/ytd.toml

StandardOutput=file:///var/log/ytd/debug.log
StandardError=file:///var/log/ytd/error.log

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

• sudo systemctl restart ytd
• sudo systemctl enable ytd
• sudo systemctl status ytd