yt2raindrop

Save videos from a YouTube Playlist XML to a Raindrop.io collection

You'll need:

• A raindrop.io account and a collection to save to
  • You can find the collection ID in the URL right after /my/
  • Create a new app and generate a "Test token"
• A YouTube feed XML URL (replace [ID])
  • Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=[ID]
    Open the playlist page, the ID is the value after list= (and until a &, if any)
  • Channel: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=[ID]
    This ID starts with "UC". You can get it in the "About" tab, the share button has "Copy channel ID".

Install and run without Docker

Dependencies:

• php (8.1+) with those extensions: curl, mbstring, iconv, xml, xmlreader
• composer

# Clone repo and go in the folder
git clone https://git.rita.moe/kody/yt2raindrop.git
cd yt2raindrop

# Install deps
composer install

# Copy config file and edit it
cp config.php.dist config.php
$EDITOR config.php

Then make a cron to run the PHP script every hour.

crontab -e

0 * * * * php /path/to/yt2raindrop/cron.php

Note that PHP needs to have permission to write in the folder or at least to a done.txt file.
This file is used to keep track of what has been sent.

Run with Docker

It has crond to run the script every hour.

# Download the base config file and edit it
wget -O config.php https://git.rita.moe/kody/yt2raindrop/raw/branch/main/config.php.dist
$EDITOR config.php

# Create the file where it will save what has been sent
touch done.txt

# Run it in the background with the done.txt and config file mounted
docker run -d \
  --name yt2raindrop \
  --mount type=bind,source="$(pwd)"/done.txt,target=/app/done.txt \
  --mount type=bind,source="$(pwd)"/config.php,target=/app/config.php,readonly \
  git.rita.moe/kody/yt2raindrop:latest

# If you want to run it once right now, remove the -d and add `php /app/cron.php` at the end