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OT, but I sorely wish there was a way to whitelist channels or playlists in the youtube app and have it show only this content. better yet, be able to subscribe to a curated list of channels and playlists. Id love to give my kids free reign to watch any of this stuff, but there is far too much other stuff that gets pushed on them too fast.


One solution is to:

(1) make a list of channels;

(2) learn to use YouTube-DL:

https://youtube-dl.org/

(3) have a script that auto-runs the YouTube-DL script

(4) then drop videos watched input a watched folder; generate a spreadsheet and columns to note who has watched watch and filepath; create a basic website; etc.

— easy to do, used to do it when I knew I would have no or bad internet.


Out of curiosity, do creators get a view-count increment from youtube-dl? (or its superior successor, yt-dlp?)


No idea, easy enough to test with a private link though if you really want to know.


It would be quite possible to compile a list of these creators.

I'd also suggest that Nebula has quite a few creators in the STEM space, though not nearly enough to make it the one-stop-shop you're looking for.




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