38 changed files with 1287 additions and 3925 deletions
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@ -4,7 +4,3 @@ e2e/supporty/supporty
 .env
 blobsfiles
 ytsync_docker
-
-e2e/config.json
-
-e2e/cookies.txt
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ os: linux
 dist: bionic
 language: go
 go:
-  - 1.17.x
+  - 1.14.4

 install: true

@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ addons:
      - python3-pip

 before_script:
-  - sudo pip3 install -U yt-dlp
+  - sudo pip3 install -U youtube-dl
  - sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4

 env:
--- a/2
+++ b/2
@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ LDFLAGS = -ldflags "-X ${IMPORT_PATH}/meta.Version=${VERSION} -X ${IMPORT_PATH}/


 build:
-	mkdir -p ${BIN_DIR} && CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build ${LDFLAGS} -asmflags -trimpath=${DIR} -o ${BIN_DIR}/${BINARY} main.go
+	mkdir -p ${BIN_DIR} && CGO_ENABLED=0 go build ${LDFLAGS} -asmflags -trimpath=${DIR} -o ${BIN_DIR}/${BINARY} main.go

 clean:
 	if [ -f ${BIN_DIR}/${BINARY} ]; then rm ${BIN_DIR}/${BINARY}; fi
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@ -8,17 +8,23 @@ With the support of said database, the tool is also able to keep all the channel


 # Requirements
- lbrynet SDK https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-sdk/releases (We strive to keep the latest release of ytsync compatible with the latest major release of the SDK)
+- lbrynet SDK https://github.com/lbryio/lbry/releases (We strive to keep the latest release of ytsync compatible with the latest major release of the SDK)
 - a lbrycrd node running (localhost or on a remote machine) with credits in it
- internal-apis (you cannot run this one yourself)
- python3-pip
- yt-dlp (`pip3 install -U yt-dlp`)
- ffmpeg (latest)

 # Setup
 - make sure daemon is stopped and can be controlled through `systemctl` (find example below)
 - extract the ytsync binary anywhere
- create and fill `config.json` using [this example](config.json.example)
+- add the environment variables necessary to the tool
+  - export SLACK_TOKEN="a-token-to-spam-your-slack"
+  - export SLACK_CHANNEL="youtube-status"
+  - export YOUTUBE_API_KEY="youtube-api-key"
+  - export LBRY_WEB_API="https://lbry-api-url-here"
+  - export LBRY_API_TOKEN="internal-apis-token-for-ytsync-user"
+  - export LBRYCRD_STRING="tcp://user:password@host:5429"
+  - export AWS_S3_ID="THE-ID-LIES-HERE"
+  - export AWS_S3_SECRET="THE-SECRET-LIES-HERE"
+  - export AWS_S3_REGION="us-east-1"
+  - export AWS_S3_BUCKET="ytsync-wallets"

 ## systemd script example
 `/etc/systemd/system/lbrynet.service`
@ -49,26 +55,23 @@ Usage:

 Flags:
      --after int                   Specify from when to pull jobs [Unix time](Default: 0)
-      --before int                  Specify until when to pull jobs [Unix time](Default: current Unix time) (default 1669311891)
+      --before int                  Specify until when to pull jobs [Unix time](Default: current Unix time) (default current timestamp)
      --channelID string            If specified, only this channel will be synced.
      --concurrent-jobs int         how many jobs to process concurrently (default 1)
  -h, --help                        help for ytsync
      --limit int                   limit the amount of channels to sync
-      --max-length int              Maximum video length to process (in hours) (default 2)
+      --max-length float            Maximum video length to process (in hours) (default 2)
      --max-size int                Maximum video size to process (in MB) (default 2048)
      --max-tries int               Number of times to try a publish that fails (default 3)
-      --no-transfers                Skips the transferring process of videos, channels and supports
-      --quick                       Look up only the last 50 videos from youtube
      --remove-db-unpublished       Remove videos from the database that are marked as published but aren't really published
      --run-once                    Whether the process should be stopped after one cycle or not
      --skip-space-check            Do not perform free space check on startup
      --status string               Specify which queue to pull from. Overrides --update
-      --status2 string              Specify which secondary queue to pull from.
+      --stop-on-error               If a publish fails, stop all publishing and exit
      --takeover-existing-channel   If channel exists and we don't own it, take over the channel
      --update                      Update previously synced channels instead of syncing new ones
      --upgrade-metadata            Upgrade videos if they're on the old metadata version
-      --videos-limit int            how many videos to process per channel (leave 0 for automatic detection)
-
+      --videos-limit int            how many videos to process per channel (default 1000)
 ```

 ## Running from Source
@ -85,17 +88,17 @@ Contributions to this project are welcome, encouraged, and compensated. For more

 ## Security

-We take security seriously. Please contact [security@lbry.io](mailto:security@lbry.io) regarding any security issues. Our PGP key is [here](https://lbry.com/faq/pgp-key) if you need it.
+We take security seriously. Please contact [security@lbry.io](mailto:security@lbry.io) regarding any security issues. Our PGP key is [here](https://keybase.io/lbry/key.asc) if you need it.

 ## Contact

-The primary contact for this project is [Niko Storni](https://github.com/nikooo777) (niko@lbry.com).
+The primary contact for this project is [Niko Storni](https://github.com/nikooo777) (niko@lbry.io).

 ## Additional Info and Links

- [https://lbry.com](https://lbry.com) - The live LBRY website
- [Discord Chat](https://chat.lbry.com) - A chat room for the LBRYians
- [Email us](mailto:hello@lbry.com) - LBRY Support email
+- [https://lbry.io](https://lbry.io) - The live LBRY website
+- [Discord Chat](https://chat.lbry.io) - A chat room for the LBRYians
+- [Email us](mailto:hello@lbry.io) - LBRY Support email
 - [Twitter](https://twitter.com/@lbryio) - LBRY Twitter page
 - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/lbryio/) - LBRY Facebook page
 - [Reddit](https://reddit.com/r/lbry) - LBRY Reddit page
--- a/blobs_reflector/reflect.go
+++ b/blobs_reflector/reflect.go
@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ func reflectBlobs() error {
 	if util.IsBlobReflectionOff() {
 		return nil
 	}
-	logrus.Infoln("reflecting blobs...")
 	//make sure lbrynet is off
 	running, err := util.IsLbrynetRunning()
 	if err != nil {
@ -73,10 +72,12 @@ func reflectBlobs() error {
 			return errors.Err(err)
 		}
 	}
-	st := store.NewDBBackedStore(store.NewS3Store(config.AwsID, config.AwsSecret, config.BucketRegion, config.BucketName), dbHandle, false)
+	st := store.NewDBBackedS3Store(
+		store.NewS3BlobStore(config.AwsID, config.AwsSecret, config.BucketRegion, config.BucketName),
+		dbHandle)

 	uploadWorkers := 10
-	uploader := reflector.NewUploader(dbHandle, st, uploadWorkers, false, false)
+	uploader := reflector.NewUploader(dbHandle, st, uploadWorkers, false)
 	usr, err := user.Current()
 	if err != nil {
 		return errors.Err(err)
--- a/config.json.example
+++ b/config.json.example
@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "slack_token": "",
-  "slack_channel": "ytsync-dev",
-  "internal_apis_endpoint": "http://localhost:15400",
-  "internal_apis_auth_token": "ytsyntoken",
-  "lbrycrd_string": "tcp://lbry:lbry@localhost:15200",
-  "wallet_s3_config": {
-    "id": "",
-    "secret": "",
-    "region": "us-east-1",
-    "bucket": "ytsync-wallets",
-    "endpoint": ""
-  },
-  "blockchaindb_s3_config": {
-    "id": "",
-    "secret": "",
-    "region": "us-east-1",
-    "bucket": "blockchaindbs",
-    "endpoint": ""
-  },
-  "thumbnails_s3_config": {
-    "id": "",
-    "secret": "",
-    "region": "us-east-1",
-    "bucket": "thumbnails.lbry.com",
-    "endpoint": ""
-  },
-  "aws_thumbnails_s3_config": {
-    "id": "",
-    "secret": "",
-    "region": "us-east-1",
-    "bucket": "thumbnails.lbry.com",
-    "endpoint": ""
-  }
-}
--- a/configs/configs.go
+++ b/configs/configs.go
@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
-package configs
-
-import (
-	"os"
-	"regexp"
-
-	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/errors"
-
-	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
-	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/credentials"
-	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
-	"github.com/tkanos/gonfig"
-)
-
-type S3Configs struct {
-	ID       string `json:"id"`
-	Secret   string `json:"secret"`
-	Region   string `json:"region"`
-	Bucket   string `json:"bucket"`
-	Endpoint string `json:"endpoint"`
-}
-type Configs struct {
-	SlackToken            string    `json:"slack_token"`
-	SlackChannel          string    `json:"slack_channel"`
-	InternalApisEndpoint  string    `json:"internal_apis_endpoint"`
-	InternalApisAuthToken string    `json:"internal_apis_auth_token"`
-	LbrycrdString         string    `json:"lbrycrd_string"`
-	WalletS3Config        S3Configs `json:"wallet_s3_config"`
-	BlockchaindbS3Config  S3Configs `json:"blockchaindb_s3_config"`
-	AWSThumbnailsS3Config S3Configs `json:"aws_thumbnails_s3_config"`
-	ThumbnailsS3Config    S3Configs `json:"thumbnails_s3_config"`
-}
-
-var Configuration *Configs
-
-func Init(configPath string) error {
-	if Configuration != nil {
-		return nil
-	}
-	c := Configs{}
-	err := gonfig.GetConf(configPath, &c)
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	Configuration = &c
-	return nil
-}
-
-func (s *S3Configs) GetS3AWSConfig() *aws.Config {
-	return &aws.Config{
-		Credentials:      credentials.NewStaticCredentials(s.ID, s.Secret, ""),
-		Region:           &s.Region,
-		Endpoint:         &s.Endpoint,
-		S3ForcePathStyle: aws.Bool(true),
-	}
-}
-func (c *Configs) GetHostname() string {
-	var hostname string
-
-	var err error
-	hostname, err = os.Hostname()
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Error("could not detect system hostname")
-		hostname = "ytsync_unknown"
-	}
-	reg, err := regexp.Compile("[^a-zA-Z0-9_]+")
-	if err == nil {
-		hostname = reg.ReplaceAllString(hostname, "_")
-
-	}
-	if len(hostname) > 30 {
-		hostname = hostname[0:30]
-	}
-	return hostname
-}
--- a/downloader/downloader.go
+++ b/downloader/downloader.go
@ -1,315 +0,0 @@
-package downloader
-
-import (
-	"encoding/json"
-	"fmt"
-	"io/ioutil"
-	"math"
-	"net"
-	"net/http"
-	"net/url"
-	"os"
-	"os/exec"
-	"path"
-	"strings"
-	"time"
-
-	"github.com/davecgh/go-spew/spew"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/downloader/ytdl"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/ip_manager"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/sdk"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/shared"
-	util2 "github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/util"
-
-	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/errors"
-	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/stop"
-	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/util"
-
-	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
-)
-
-func GetPlaylistVideoIDs(channelName string, maxVideos int, stopChan stop.Chan, pool *ip_manager.IPPool) ([]string, error) {
-	args := []string{"--skip-download", "https://www.youtube.com/channel/" + channelName + "/videos", "--get-id", "--flat-playlist", "--cookies", "cookies.txt", "--playlist-end", fmt.Sprintf("%d", maxVideos)}
-	ids, err := run(channelName, args, stopChan, pool)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	videoIDs := make([]string, 0, maxVideos)
-	for i, v := range ids {
-		if v == "" {
-			continue
-		}
-		if i >= maxVideos {
-			break
-		}
-		videoIDs = append(videoIDs, v)
-	}
-	return videoIDs, nil
-}
-
-const releaseTimeFormat = "2006-01-02, 15:04:05 (MST)"
-
-func GetVideoInformation(videoID string, stopChan stop.Chan, pool *ip_manager.IPPool) (*ytdl.YtdlVideo, error) {
-	args := []string{
-		"--skip-download",
-		"--write-info-json",
-		fmt.Sprintf("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s", videoID),
-		"--cookies",
-		"cookies.txt",
-		"-o",
-		path.Join(util2.GetVideoMetadataDir(), videoID),
-	}
-	_, err := run(videoID, args, stopChan, pool)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, errors.Err(err)
-	}
-
-	f, err := os.Open(path.Join(util2.GetVideoMetadataDir(), videoID+".info.json"))
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	// defer the closing of our jsonFile so that we can parse it later on
-	defer f.Close()
-	// read our opened jsonFile as a byte array.
-	byteValue, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(f)
-
-	var video *ytdl.YtdlVideo
-	err = json.Unmarshal(byteValue, &video)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, errors.Err(err)
-	}
-
-	return video, nil
-}
-
-var errNotScraped = errors.Base("not yet scraped by caa.iti.gr")
-var errUploadTimeEmpty = errors.Base("upload time is empty")
-var errStatusParse = errors.Base("could not parse status, got number, need string")
-var errConnectionIssue = errors.Base("there was a connection issue with the api")
-
-func slack(format string, a ...interface{}) {
-	fmt.Printf(format+"\n", a...)
-	util.SendToSlack(format, a...)
-}
-
-func triggerScrape(videoID string, ip *net.TCPAddr) error {
-	//slack("Triggering scrape for %s", videoID)
-	u, err := url.Parse("https://caa.iti.gr/verify_videoV3")
-	q := u.Query()
-	q.Set("twtimeline", "0")
-	q.Set("url", "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v="+videoID)
-	u.RawQuery = q.Encode()
-	//slack("GET %s", u.String())
-
-	client := getClient(ip)
-	req, err := http.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, u.String(), nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	req.Header.Set("User-Agent", ChromeUA)
-
-	res, err := client.Do(req)
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	defer res.Body.Close()
-
-	var response struct {
-		Message  string `json:"message"`
-		Status   string `json:"status"`
-		VideoURL string `json:"video_url"`
-	}
-	err = json.NewDecoder(res.Body).Decode(&response)
-	if err != nil {
-		if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "cannot unmarshal number") {
-			return errors.Err(errStatusParse)
-		}
-		if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "no route to host") {
-			return errors.Err(errConnectionIssue)
-		}
-		return errors.Err(err)
-	}
-
-	switch response.Status {
-	case "removed_video":
-		return errors.Err("video previously removed from service")
-	case "no_video":
-		return errors.Err("they say 'video cannot be found'. wtf?")
-	default:
-		spew.Dump(response)
-	}
-
-	return nil
-	//https://caa.iti.gr/caa/api/v4/videos/reports/h-tuxHS5lSM
-}
-
-func getUploadTime(config *sdk.APIConfig, videoID string, ip *net.TCPAddr, uploadDate string) (string, error) {
-	//slack("Getting upload time for %s", videoID)
-	release, err := config.GetReleasedDate(videoID)
-	if err != nil {
-		logrus.Error(err)
-	}
-	ytdlUploadDate, err := time.Parse("20060102", uploadDate)
-	if err != nil {
-		logrus.Error(err)
-	}
-	if release != nil {
-		//const sqlTimeFormat = "2006-01-02 15:04:05"
-		sqlTime, err := time.ParseInLocation(time.RFC3339, release.ReleaseTime, time.UTC)
-		if err == nil {
-			hoursDiff := math.Abs(sqlTime.Sub(ytdlUploadDate).Hours())
-			if hoursDiff > 48 {
-				logrus.Infof("upload day from APIs differs from the ytdl one by more than 2 days.")
-			} else {
-				return sqlTime.Format(releaseTimeFormat), nil
-			}
-		} else {
-			logrus.Error(err)
-		}
-	}
-
-	return ytdlUploadDate.Format(releaseTimeFormat), nil
-}
-
-func getClient(ip *net.TCPAddr) *http.Client {
-	if ip == nil {
-		return http.DefaultClient
-	}
-
-	return &http.Client{
-		Transport: &http.Transport{
-			Proxy: http.ProxyFromEnvironment,
-			DialContext: (&net.Dialer{
-				LocalAddr: ip,
-				Timeout:   30 * time.Second,
-				KeepAlive: 30 * time.Second,
-			}).DialContext,
-			MaxIdleConns:          100,
-			IdleConnTimeout:       90 * time.Second,
-			TLSHandshakeTimeout:   10 * time.Second,
-			ExpectContinueTimeout: 1 * time.Second,
-		},
-	}
-}
-
-const (
-	GoogleBotUA             = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
-	ChromeUA                = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
-	maxAttempts             = 3
-	extractionError         = "YouTube said: Unable to extract video data"
-	throttledError          = "HTTP Error 429"
-	AlternateThrottledError = "returned non-zero exit status 8"
-	youtubeDlError          = "exit status 1"
-	videoPremiereError      = "Premieres in"
-	liveEventError          = "This live event will begin in"
-)
-
-func run(use string, args []string, stopChan stop.Chan, pool *ip_manager.IPPool) ([]string, error) {
-	var useragent []string
-	var lastError error
-	for attempts := 0; attempts < maxAttempts; attempts++ {
-		sourceAddress, err := getIPFromPool(use, stopChan, pool)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		argsForCommand := append(args, "--source-address", sourceAddress)
-		argsForCommand = append(argsForCommand, useragent...)
-		binary := "yt-dlp"
-		cmd := exec.Command(binary, argsForCommand...)
-
-		res, err := runCmd(cmd, stopChan)
-		pool.ReleaseIP(sourceAddress)
-		if err == nil {
-			return res, nil
-		}
-		lastError = err
-		if strings.Contains(err.Error(), youtubeDlError) {
-			if util.SubstringInSlice(err.Error(), shared.ErrorsNoRetry) {
-				break
-			}
-			if strings.Contains(err.Error(), extractionError) {
-				logrus.Warnf("known extraction error: %s", errors.FullTrace(err))
-				useragent = nextUA(useragent)
-			}
-			if strings.Contains(err.Error(), throttledError) || strings.Contains(err.Error(), AlternateThrottledError) {
-				pool.SetThrottled(sourceAddress)
-				//we don't want throttle errors to count toward the max retries
-				attempts--
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	return nil, lastError
-}
-
-func nextUA(current []string) []string {
-	if len(current) == 0 {
-		return []string{"--user-agent", GoogleBotUA}
-	}
-	return []string{"--user-agent", ChromeUA}
-}
-
-func runCmd(cmd *exec.Cmd, stopChan stop.Chan) ([]string, error) {
-	logrus.Infof("running yt-dlp cmd: %s", strings.Join(cmd.Args, " "))
-	var err error
-	stderr, err := cmd.StderrPipe()
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	stdout, err := cmd.StdoutPipe()
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	err = cmd.Start()
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	outLog, err := ioutil.ReadAll(stdout)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	errorLog, err := ioutil.ReadAll(stderr)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	done := make(chan error, 1)
-	go func() {
-		done <- cmd.Wait()
-	}()
-
-	select {
-	case <-stopChan:
-		err := cmd.Process.Kill()
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, errors.Prefix("failed to kill command after stopper cancellation", err)
-		}
-		return nil, errors.Err("interrupted by user")
-	case err := <-done:
-		if err != nil {
-			//return nil, errors.Prefix("yt-dlp "+strings.Join(cmd.Args, " ")+" ["+string(errorLog)+"]", err)
-			return nil, errors.Prefix(string(errorLog), err)
-		}
-		return strings.Split(strings.Replace(string(outLog), "\r\n", "\n", -1), "\n"), nil
-	}
-}
-
-func getIPFromPool(use string, stopChan stop.Chan, pool *ip_manager.IPPool) (sourceAddress string, err error) {
-	for {
-		sourceAddress, err = pool.GetIP(use)
-		if err != nil {
-			if errors.Is(err, ip_manager.ErrAllThrottled) {
-				select {
-				case <-stopChan:
-					return "", errors.Err("interrupted by user")
-
-				default:
-					time.Sleep(ip_manager.IPCooldownPeriod)
-					continue
-				}
-			} else {
-				return "", err
-			}
-		}
-		break
-	}
-	return
-}
--- a/downloader/downloader_test.go
+++ b/downloader/downloader_test.go
@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-package downloader
-
-import (
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/ip_manager"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/sdk"
-
-	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/stop"
-
-	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
-)
-
-func TestGetPlaylistVideoIDs(t *testing.T) {
-	videoIDs, err := GetPlaylistVideoIDs("UCJ0-OtVpF0wOKEqT2Z1HEtA", 50, nil, nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		logrus.Error(err)
-	}
-	for _, id := range videoIDs {
-		println(id)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestGetVideoInformation(t *testing.T) {
-	s := stop.New()
-	ip, err := ip_manager.GetIPPool(s)
-	assert.NoError(t, err)
-	video, err := GetVideoInformation("kDGOHNpRjzc", s.Ch(), ip)
-	assert.NoError(t, err)
-	assert.NotNil(t, video)
-	logrus.Info(video.ID)
-}
-
-func Test_getUploadTime(t *testing.T) {
-	configs := sdk.APIConfig{}
-	got, err := getUploadTime(&configs, "kDGOHNpRjzc", nil, "20060102")
-	assert.NoError(t, err)
-	t.Log(got)
-}
--- a/downloader/ytdl/Video.go
+++ b/downloader/ytdl/Video.go
@ -1,137 +0,0 @@
-package ytdl
-
-import (
-	"time"
-
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/sdk"
-	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
-)
-
-type YtdlVideo struct {
-	ID                string      `json:"id"`
-	Title             string      `json:"title"`
-	Thumbnails        []Thumbnail `json:"thumbnails"`
-	Description       string      `json:"description"`
-	ChannelID         string      `json:"channel_id"`
-	Duration          int         `json:"duration"`
-	Categories        []string    `json:"categories"`
-	Tags              []string    `json:"tags"`
-	IsLive            bool        `json:"is_live"`
-	LiveStatus        string      `json:"live_status"`
-	ReleaseTimestamp  *int64      `json:"release_timestamp"`
-	uploadDateForReal *time.Time
-	Availability      string `json:"availability"`
-	ReleaseDate       string `json:"release_date"`
-	UploadDate        string `json:"upload_date"`
-
-	//WasLive           bool        `json:"was_live"`
-	//Formats              interface{}   `json:"formats"`
-	//Thumbnail            string        `json:"thumbnail"`
-	//Uploader             string        `json:"uploader"`
-	//UploaderID           string        `json:"uploader_id"`
-	//UploaderURL          string        `json:"uploader_url"`
-	//ChannelURL           string        `json:"channel_url"`
-	//ViewCount            int           `json:"view_count"`
-	//AverageRating        interface{}   `json:"average_rating"`
-	//AgeLimit             int           `json:"age_limit"`
-	//WebpageURL           string        `json:"webpage_url"`
-	//PlayableInEmbed      bool          `json:"playable_in_embed"`
-	//AutomaticCaptions    interface{}   `json:"automatic_captions"`
-	//Subtitles            interface{}   `json:"subtitles"`
-	//Chapters             interface{}   `json:"chapters"`
-	//LikeCount            int           `json:"like_count"`
-	//Channel              string        `json:"channel"`
-	//ChannelFollowerCount int           `json:"channel_follower_count"`
-	//OriginalURL          string        `json:"original_url"`
-	//WebpageURLBasename   string        `json:"webpage_url_basename"`
-	//WebpageURLDomain     string        `json:"webpage_url_domain"`
-	//Extractor            string        `json:"extractor"`
-	//ExtractorKey         string        `json:"extractor_key"`
-	//Playlist             interface{}   `json:"playlist"`
-	//PlaylistIndex        interface{}   `json:"playlist_index"`
-	//DisplayID            string        `json:"display_id"`
-	//Fulltitle            string        `json:"fulltitle"`
-	//DurationString       string        `json:"duration_string"`
-	//RequestedSubtitles   interface{}   `json:"requested_subtitles"`
-	//HasDrm               bool          `json:"__has_drm"`
-	//RequestedFormats     interface{}   `json:"requested_formats"`
-	//Format               string        `json:"format"`
-	//FormatID             string        `json:"format_id"`
-	//Ext                  string        `json:"ext"`
-	//Protocol             string        `json:"protocol"`
-	//Language             interface{}   `json:"language"`
-	//FormatNote           string        `json:"format_note"`
-	//FilesizeApprox       int           `json:"filesize_approx"`
-	//Tbr                  float64       `json:"tbr"`
-	//Width                int           `json:"width"`
-	//Height               int           `json:"height"`
-	//Resolution           string        `json:"resolution"`
-	//Fps                  int           `json:"fps"`
-	//DynamicRange         string        `json:"dynamic_range"`
-	//Vcodec               string        `json:"vcodec"`
-	//Vbr                  float64       `json:"vbr"`
-	//StretchedRatio       interface{}   `json:"stretched_ratio"`
-	//Acodec               string        `json:"acodec"`
-	//Abr                  float64       `json:"abr"`
-	//Asr                  int           `json:"asr"`
-	//Epoch                int           `json:"epoch"`
-	//Filename             string        `json:"filename"`
-	//Urls                 string        `json:"urls"`
-	//Type                 string        `json:"_type"`
-}
-
-type Thumbnail struct {
-	URL        string `json:"url"`
-	Preference int    `json:"preference"`
-	ID         string `json:"id"`
-	Height     int    `json:"height,omitempty"`
-	Width      int    `json:"width,omitempty"`
-	Resolution string `json:"resolution,omitempty"`
-}
-
-func (v *YtdlVideo) GetUploadTime() time.Time {
-	//priority list:
-	// release timestamp from yt
-	// release timestamp from morty
-	// release date from yt
-	// upload date from yt
-	if v.uploadDateForReal != nil {
-		return *v.uploadDateForReal
-	}
-
-	var ytdlReleaseTimestamp time.Time
-	if v.ReleaseTimestamp != nil && *v.ReleaseTimestamp > 0 {
-		ytdlReleaseTimestamp = time.Unix(*v.ReleaseTimestamp, 0).UTC()
-	}
-	//get morty timestamp
-	var mortyReleaseTimestamp time.Time
-	mortyRelease, err := sdk.GetAPIsConfigs().GetReleasedDate(v.ID)
-	if err != nil {
-		logrus.Error(err)
-	} else if mortyRelease != nil {
-		mortyReleaseTimestamp, err = time.ParseInLocation(time.RFC3339, mortyRelease.ReleaseTime, time.UTC)
-		if err != nil {
-			logrus.Error(err)
-		}
-	}
-
-	ytdlReleaseDate, err := time.Parse("20060102", v.ReleaseDate)
-	if err != nil {
-		logrus.Error(err)
-	}
-	ytdlUploadDate, err := time.Parse("20060102", v.UploadDate)
-	if err != nil {
-		logrus.Error(err)
-	}
-	if !ytdlReleaseTimestamp.IsZero() {
-		v.uploadDateForReal = &ytdlReleaseTimestamp
-	} else if !mortyReleaseTimestamp.IsZero() {
-		v.uploadDateForReal = &mortyReleaseTimestamp
-	} else if !ytdlReleaseDate.IsZero() {
-		v.uploadDateForReal = &ytdlReleaseDate
-	} else {
-		v.uploadDateForReal = &ytdlUploadDate
-	}
-
-	return *v.uploadDateForReal
-}
--- a/e2e/data_setup.sh
+++ b/e2e/data_setup.sh
@ -19,6 +19,6 @@ mysql -u lbry -plbry -D lbry -h "127.0.0.1" -P 15500 -e "$ADDYTSYNCER"
 ADDYTSYNCAUTHTOKEN='INSERT INTO auth_token (user_id, value) VALUE(2,"youtubertoken")'
 mysql -u lbry -plbry -D lbry -h "127.0.0.1" -P 15500 -e "$ADDYTSYNCAUTHTOKEN"
 #Add their youtube channel to be synced
-ADDYTCHANNEL="INSERT INTO youtube_data (user_id, status_token,desired_lbry_channel,channel_id,channel_name,status,created_at,source,total_videos,total_subscribers,should_sync,redeemable,total_views,reviewed,last_uploaded_video,length_limit,size_limit,reward_amount,reward_expiration)
-VALUE(2,'3qzGyuVjQaf7t4pKKu2Er1NRW2LJkeWw','$1','$2','СтопХам','queued','2019-08-01 00:00:00','sync',1000,1000,1,1,10000,1,'$3',60,2048,0,'2019-08-01 00:00:00')"
-mysql -u lbry -plbry -D lbry -h "127.0.0.1" --default-character-set=utf8 -P 15500 -e "$ADDYTCHANNEL"
+ADDYTCHANNEL="INSERT INTO youtube_data (user_id, status_token,desired_lbry_channel,channel_id,channel_name,status,created_at,source,total_videos,total_subscribers,should_sync,redeemable)
+VALUE(2,'3qzGyuVjQaf7t4pKKu2Er1NRW2LJkeWw','@beamertest','UCNQfQvFMPnInwsU_iGYArJQ','BeamerAtLBRY','queued','2019-08-01 00:00:00','sync',1,0,1,1)"
+mysql -u lbry -plbry -D lbry -h "127.0.0.1" -P 15500 -e "$ADDYTCHANNEL"
--- a/e2e/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/e2e/docker-compose.yml
@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ services:
  ## Wallet Server ##
  ###################
  walletserver:
-    image: lbry/wallet-server:v0.101.1
+    image: lbry/wallet-server:v0.73.1
    restart: always
    environment:
      - DB_DIRECTORY=/database
@ -31,14 +31,12 @@ services:
      - BANDWIDTH_LIMIT=80000000000
      - SESSION_TIMEOUT=10000000000000000000000000
      - TCP_PORT=50001
-      - ELASTIC_HOST=es01
    ports:
      - "15300:50001"
    expose:
      - "50001"
    depends_on:
      - lbrycrd
-      - es01
    ulimits:
      nofile:
        soft: 90000
@ -46,30 +44,10 @@ services:
    #command: lbry.wallet.server.coin.LBC
    command: lbry.wallet.server.coin.LBCRegTest
  #############
-  ## elasticsearch ##
-  #############
-  es01:
-    image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.11.0
-    container_name: es01
-    environment:
-      - node.name=es01
-      - discovery.type=single-node
-      - indices.query.bool.max_clause_count=8196
-      - bootstrap.memory_lock=true
-      - "ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms4g -Xmx4g"
-    ulimits:
-      memlock:
-        soft: -1
-        hard: -1
-    ports:
-      - "9200:9200"
-    expose:
-      - "9200"
-  #############
  ## Lbrynet ##
  #############
  lbrynet:
-    image: lbry/lbrynet:v0.99.0
+    image: lbry/lbrynet:v0.73.1
    restart: always
    ports:
      - "15100:5279"
@ -81,7 +59,6 @@ services:
      - walletserver
    environment:
      - LBRY_STREAMING_SERVER=0.0.0.0:5280
-      - LBRY_FEE_PER_NAME_CHAR=0
    volumes:
      - "./persist/.lbrynet:/home/lbrynet"
      - ".:/etc/lbry" #Put your daemon_settings.yml here
@ -91,7 +68,7 @@ services:
  ## MySQL ##
  ###########
  mysql:
-    image: mysql/mysql-server:5.7.33
+    image: mysql/mysql-server:5.7.27
    restart: "no"
    ports:
      - "15500:3306"
@ -110,7 +87,7 @@ services:
  ## Internal APIs ##
  ###################
  internalapis:
-    image: odyseeteam/internal-apis:master
+    image: lbry/internal-apis:master
    restart: "no"
    ports:
      - "15400:8080"
@ -122,13 +99,12 @@ services:
    environment:
      - MYSQL_DSN=lbry:lbry@tcp(mysql:3306)/lbry
      - LBRYCRD_CONNECT=rpc://lbry:lbry@lbrycrd:29245
-      - REPLICA_DSN=lbry:lbry@tcp(mysql:3306)/lbry
    entrypoint: wait-for-it -t 0 chainquery:6300 -- wait-for-it -t 0 lbrycrd:29245 -- ./latest serve
  ################
  ## Chainquery ##
  ################
  chainquery:
-    image: odyseeteam/chainquery:master
+    image: lbry/chainquery:v2.0.8
    restart: "no"
    ports:
      - 6300:6300
--- a/e2e/e2e.sh
+++ b/e2e/e2e.sh
@ -14,8 +14,11 @@ export LOCAL_TMP_DIR="/var/tmp:/var/tmp"
 touch -a .env && set -o allexport; source ./.env; set +o allexport
 echo "LOCAL_TMP_DIR=$LOCAL_TMP_DIR"
 # Compose settings - docker only
+export SLACK_CHANNEL="ytsync-travis"
+export LBRY_API_TOKEN="ytsyntoken"
+export LBRY_WEB_API="http://localhost:15400"
 export LBRYNET_ADDRESS="http://localhost:15100"
-export LBRYCRD_STRING="tcp://lbry:lbry@localhost:15200" #required for supporty
+export LBRYCRD_STRING="tcp://lbry:lbry@localhost:15200"
 export LBRYNET_USE_DOCKER=true
 export REFLECT_BLOBS=false
 export CLEAN_ON_STARTUP=true
@ -23,7 +26,7 @@ export REGTEST=true
 # Local settings
 export BLOBS_DIRECTORY="$(pwd)/e2e/blobsfiles"
 export LBRYNET_DIR="$(pwd)/e2e/persist/.lbrynet/.local/share/lbry/lbrynet/"
-export LBRYUM_DIR="$(pwd)/e2e/persist/.lbrynet/.local/share/lbry/lbryum"
+export LBRYNET_WALLETS_DIR="$(pwd)/e2e/persist/.lbrynet/.local/share/lbry/lbryum"
 export TMP_DIR="/var/tmp"
 export CHAINNAME="lbrycrd_regtest"
 export UID
@ -47,15 +50,11 @@ until curl --output /dev/null --silent --head --fail http://localhost:15400; do
 done
 echo "successfully started..."

-channelToSync="UCMn-zv1SE-2y6vyewscfFqw"
-channelName=@whatever"$(date +%s)"
-latestVideoID="yPJgjiMbmX0"
-
 #Data Setup for test
-./data_setup.sh "$channelName" "$channelToSync" "$latestVideoID"
+./data_setup.sh

 # Execute the sync test!
-./../bin/ytsync --channelID "$channelToSync" --videos-limit 2 --concurrent-jobs 4 --quick #Force channel intended...just in case. This channel lines up with the api container
+./../bin/ytsync --channelID UCNQfQvFMPnInwsU_iGYArJQ --videos-limit 2 --concurrent-jobs 4 --quick #Force channel intended...just in case. This channel lines up with the api container
 status=$(mysql -u lbry -plbry -ss -D lbry -h "127.0.0.1" -P 15500 -e 'SELECT status FROM youtube_data WHERE id=1')
 videoStatus=$(mysql -u lbry -plbry -ss -D lbry -h "127.0.0.1" -P 15500 -e 'SELECT status FROM synced_video WHERE id=1')
 videoClaimID1=$(mysql -u lbry -plbry -ss -D lbry -h "127.0.0.1" -P 15500 -e 'SELECT publish.claim_id FROM synced_video INNER JOIN publish ON publish.id = synced_video.publish_id WHERE synced_video.id=1')
@ -63,17 +62,17 @@ videoClaimID2=$(mysql -u lbry -plbry -ss -D lbry -h "127.0.0.1" -P 15500 -e 'SEL
 videoClaimAddress1=$(mysql -u lbry -plbry -ss -D chainquery -h "127.0.0.1" -P 15500 -e 'SELECT claim_address FROM claim WHERE id=2')
 videoClaimAddress2=$(mysql -u lbry -plbry -ss -D chainquery -h "127.0.0.1" -P 15500 -e 'SELECT claim_address FROM claim WHERE id=3')
 # Create Supports for published claim
-./supporty/supporty "$channelName" "${videoClaimID1}" "${videoClaimAddress1}" lbrycrd_regtest 1.0
-./supporty/supporty "$channelName" "${videoClaimID2}" "${videoClaimAddress2}" lbrycrd_regtest 2.0
-./supporty/supporty "$channelName" "${videoClaimID2}" "${videoClaimAddress2}" lbrycrd_regtest 3.0
-./supporty/supporty "$channelName" "${videoClaimID1}" "${videoClaimAddress1}" lbrycrd_regtest 3.0
+./supporty/supporty @BeamerTest "${videoClaimID1}" "${videoClaimAddress1}" lbrycrd_regtest 1.0
+./supporty/supporty @BeamerTest "${videoClaimID2}" "${videoClaimAddress2}" lbrycrd_regtest 2.0
+./supporty/supporty @BeamerTest "${videoClaimID1}" "${videoClaimAddress1}" lbrycrd_regtest 3.0
+./supporty/supporty @BeamerTest "${videoClaimID2}" "${videoClaimAddress2}" lbrycrd_regtest 3.0
 curl --data-binary '{"jsonrpc":"1.0","id":"curltext","method":"generate","params":[1]}' -H 'content-type:text/plain;' --user lbry:lbry http://localhost:15200
 # Reset status for transfer test
 mysql -u lbry -plbry -ss -D lbry -h "127.0.0.1" -P 15500 -e "UPDATE youtube_data SET status = 'queued' WHERE id = 1"
 # Trigger transfer api
 curl -i -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' 'http://localhost:15400/yt/transfer?auth_token=youtubertoken&address=n4eYeXAYmHo4YRUDEfsEhucy8y5LKRMcHg&public_key=tpubDA9GDAntyJu4hD3wU7175p7CuV6DWbYXfyb2HedBA3yuBp9HZ4n3QE4Ex6RHCSiEuVp2nKAL1Lzf2ZLo9ApaFgNaJjG6Xo1wB3iEeVbrDZp'
 # Execute the transfer test!
-./../bin/ytsync --channelID $channelToSync --videos-limit 2 --concurrent-jobs 4 --quick #Force channel intended...just in case. This channel lines up with the api container
+./../bin/ytsync --channelID UCNQfQvFMPnInwsU_iGYArJQ --videos-limit 2 --concurrent-jobs 4 --quick #Force channel intended...just in case. This channel lines up with the api container
 # Check that the channel and the video are marked as transferred and that all supports are spent
 channelTransferStatus=$(mysql -u lbry -plbry -ss -D lbry -h "127.0.0.1" -P 15500 -e 'SELECT distinct transfer_state FROM youtube_data')
 videoTransferStatus=$(mysql -u lbry -plbry -ss -D lbry -h "127.0.0.1" -P 15500 -e 'SELECT distinct transferred FROM synced_video')
@ -92,5 +91,4 @@ if [[ $status != "synced" || $videoStatus != "published" || $channelTransferStat
    exit 1;
    else
      echo "SUCCESSSSSSSSSSSSS!"
-fi;
-docker-compose down
+fi;
--- a/e2e/lbrynet/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/e2e/lbrynet/docker-compose.yml
@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ services:
  ## Lbrynet ##
  #############
  lbrynet:
-    image: lbry/lbrynet:v0.99.0
+    image: lbry/lbrynet:v0.73.1
    restart: "no"
    networks:
      lbry-network:
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@ -1,151 +1,40 @@
-go 1.17
-
 module github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5

 replace github.com/btcsuite/btcd => github.com/lbryio/lbrycrd.go v0.0.0-20200203050410-e1076f12bf19

-//replace github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2 => /home/niko/go/src/github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/
-//replace github.com/lbryio/reflector.go => /home/niko/go/src/github.com/lbryio/reflector.go/
-
 require (
-	github.com/abadojack/whatlanggo v1.0.1
-	github.com/asaskevich/govalidator v0.0.0-20210307081110-f21760c49a8d
-	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.44.6
-	github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1
-	github.com/docker/docker v20.10.17+incompatible
-	github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2 v2.7.2-0.20220815204100-2adb8af5b68c
-	github.com/lbryio/reflector.go v1.1.3-0.20220730181028-f5d30b1a6e79
-	github.com/mitchellh/go-ps v1.0.0
-	github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.12.1
-	github.com/shopspring/decimal v1.3.1
-	github.com/sirupsen/logrus v1.9.0
-	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.4.0
-	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.7.1
-	github.com/tkanos/gonfig v0.0.0-20210106201359-53e13348de2f
-	github.com/vbauerster/mpb/v7 v7.4.1
-	gopkg.in/vansante/go-ffprobe.v2 v2.0.3
-	gotest.tools v2.2.0+incompatible
-)
-
-require (
-	github.com/Microsoft/go-winio v0.5.1 // indirect
-	github.com/VividCortex/ewma v1.2.0 // indirect
-	github.com/acarl005/stripansi v0.0.0-20180116102854-5a71ef0e047d // indirect
-	github.com/armon/go-metrics v0.0.0-20190430140413-ec5e00d3c878 // indirect
-	github.com/beorn7/perks v1.0.1 // indirect
-	github.com/bluele/gcache v0.0.2 // indirect
-	github.com/brk0v/directio v0.0.0-20190225130936-69406e757cf7 // indirect
-	github.com/btcsuite/btcd v0.0.0-20190824003749-130ea5bddde3 // indirect
-	github.com/btcsuite/btclog v0.0.0-20170628155309-84c8d2346e9f // indirect
-	github.com/btcsuite/btcutil v0.0.0-20190425235716-9e5f4b9a998d // indirect
-	github.com/btcsuite/go-socks v0.0.0-20170105172521-4720035b7bfd // indirect
-	github.com/btcsuite/websocket v0.0.0-20150119174127-31079b680792 // indirect
-	github.com/c2h5oh/datasize v0.0.0-20200825124411-48ed595a09d2 // indirect
-	github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2 v2.1.2 // indirect
-	github.com/cheekybits/genny v1.0.0 // indirect
-	github.com/docker/distribution v2.8.1+incompatible // indirect
+	cloud.google.com/go v0.46.3 // indirect
+	github.com/ChannelMeter/iso8601duration v0.0.0-20150204201828-8da3af7a2a61
+	github.com/Microsoft/go-winio v0.4.14 // indirect
+	github.com/asaskevich/govalidator v0.0.0-20190424111038-f61b66f89f4a
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.25.9
+	github.com/channelmeter/iso8601duration v0.0.0-20150204201828-8da3af7a2a61 // indirect
+	github.com/docker/distribution v2.7.1+incompatible // indirect
+	github.com/docker/docker v1.13.1
 	github.com/docker/go-connections v0.4.0 // indirect
 	github.com/docker/go-units v0.4.0 // indirect
-	github.com/ekyoung/gin-nice-recovery v0.0.0-20160510022553-1654dca486db // indirect
-	github.com/fatih/structs v1.1.0 // indirect
-	github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify v1.4.9 // indirect
-	github.com/ghodss/yaml v1.0.0 // indirect
-	github.com/gin-contrib/sse v0.1.0 // indirect
-	github.com/gin-gonic/gin v1.7.7 // indirect
-	github.com/go-errors/errors v1.1.1 // indirect
-	github.com/go-ini/ini v1.48.0 // indirect
-	github.com/go-playground/locales v0.13.0 // indirect
-	github.com/go-playground/universal-translator v0.17.0 // indirect
-	github.com/go-playground/validator/v10 v10.4.1 // indirect
-	github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql v1.6.0 // indirect
-	github.com/go-task/slim-sprig v0.0.0-20210107165309-348f09dbbbc0 // indirect
-	github.com/gofrs/uuid v3.2.0+incompatible // indirect
-	github.com/gogo/protobuf v1.3.2 // indirect
-	github.com/golang/protobuf v1.5.2 // indirect
-	github.com/google/btree v1.0.1 // indirect
-	github.com/google/go-cmp v0.5.7 // indirect
-	github.com/gorilla/mux v1.8.0 // indirect
-	github.com/gorilla/rpc v1.2.0 // indirect
-	github.com/gorilla/websocket v1.4.2 // indirect
-	github.com/hashicorp/errwrap v1.1.0 // indirect
+	github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql v1.4.1 // indirect
+	github.com/golang/groupcache v0.0.0-20191002201903-404acd9df4cc // indirect
 	github.com/hashicorp/go-immutable-radix v1.1.0 // indirect
-	github.com/hashicorp/go-msgpack v0.5.5 // indirect
-	github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror v1.1.1 // indirect
 	github.com/hashicorp/go-sockaddr v1.0.2 // indirect
-	github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru v0.5.4 // indirect
-	github.com/hashicorp/hcl v1.0.0 // indirect
-	github.com/hashicorp/memberlist v0.3.0 // indirect
-	github.com/hashicorp/serf v0.9.7 // indirect
-	github.com/inconshreveable/go-update v0.0.0-20160112193335-8152e7eb6ccf // indirect
-	github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap v1.0.0 // indirect
-	github.com/jmespath/go-jmespath v0.4.0 // indirect
-	github.com/johntdyer/slack-go v0.0.0-20180213144715-95fac1160b22 // indirect
-	github.com/johntdyer/slackrus v0.0.0-20211215141436-33e4a270affb // indirect
-	github.com/json-iterator/go v1.1.12 // indirect
-	github.com/karrick/godirwalk v1.17.0 // indirect
-	github.com/kr/text v0.2.0 // indirect
-	github.com/lbryio/chainquery v1.9.0 // indirect
-	github.com/lbryio/lbry.go v1.1.2 // indirect
-	github.com/lbryio/types v0.0.0-20220224142228-73610f6654a6 // indirect
-	github.com/leodido/go-urn v1.2.0 // indirect
-	github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-go v0.28.1 // indirect
-	github.com/lyoshenka/bencode v0.0.0-20180323155644-b7abd7672df5 // indirect
-	github.com/magiconair/properties v1.8.1 // indirect
-	github.com/marten-seemann/qpack v0.2.1 // indirect
-	github.com/marten-seemann/qtls-go1-16 v0.1.5 // indirect
-	github.com/marten-seemann/qtls-go1-17 v0.1.2 // indirect
-	github.com/marten-seemann/qtls-go1-18 v0.1.2 // indirect
-	github.com/marten-seemann/qtls-go1-19 v0.1.0-beta.1 // indirect
-	github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.12 // indirect
-	github.com/mattn/go-runewidth v0.0.13 // indirect
-	github.com/matttproud/golang_protobuf_extensions v1.0.2-0.20181231171920-c182affec369 // indirect
-	github.com/miekg/dns v1.1.41 // indirect
-	github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure v1.5.0 // indirect
-	github.com/moby/term v0.0.0-20210619224110-3f7ff695adc6 // indirect
-	github.com/modern-go/concurrent v0.0.0-20180306012644-bacd9c7ef1dd // indirect
-	github.com/modern-go/reflect2 v1.0.2 // indirect
-	github.com/morikuni/aec v1.0.0 // indirect
-	github.com/nxadm/tail v1.4.8 // indirect
-	github.com/onsi/ginkgo v1.16.4 // indirect
-	github.com/onsi/gomega v1.17.0 // indirect
-	github.com/opencontainers/go-digest v1.0.0 // indirect
-	github.com/opencontainers/image-spec v1.0.3-0.20211202183452-c5a74bcca799 // indirect
-	github.com/pelletier/go-toml v1.9.3 // indirect
-	github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1 // indirect
-	github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0 // indirect
-	github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.2.0 // indirect
-	github.com/prometheus/common v0.32.1 // indirect
-	github.com/prometheus/procfs v0.7.3 // indirect
-	github.com/rivo/uniseg v0.2.0 // indirect
-	github.com/sean-/seed v0.0.0-20170313163322-e2103e2c3529 // indirect
-	github.com/slack-go/slack v0.10.3 // indirect
-	github.com/spf13/afero v1.4.1 // indirect
-	github.com/spf13/cast v1.4.1 // indirect
-	github.com/spf13/jwalterweatherman v1.0.0 // indirect
+	github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru v0.5.3 // indirect
+	github.com/hashicorp/memberlist v0.1.5 // indirect
+	github.com/hashicorp/serf v0.8.5 // indirect
+	github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2 v2.6.0
+	github.com/lbryio/reflector.go v1.0.6-0.20190828131602-ce3d4403dbc6
+	github.com/miekg/dns v1.1.22 // indirect
+	github.com/mitchellh/go-ps v0.0.0-20190716172923-621e5597135b
+	github.com/opencontainers/go-digest v1.0.0-rc1 // indirect
+	github.com/phayes/freeport v0.0.0-20180830031419-95f893ade6f2 // indirect
+	github.com/prometheus/client_golang v0.9.2
+	github.com/shopspring/decimal v0.0.0-20191009025716-f1972eb1d1f5
+	github.com/sirupsen/logrus v1.4.2
+	github.com/spf13/cobra v0.0.5
 	github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5 // indirect
-	github.com/spf13/viper v1.7.1 // indirect
-	github.com/subosito/gotenv v1.2.0 // indirect
-	github.com/ugorji/go/codec v1.1.7 // indirect
-	github.com/volatiletech/inflect v0.0.0-20170731032912-e7201282ae8d // indirect
-	github.com/volatiletech/null v8.0.0+incompatible // indirect
-	github.com/volatiletech/sqlboiler v3.4.0+incompatible // indirect
-	github.com/ybbus/jsonrpc v2.1.2+incompatible // indirect
-	go.uber.org/atomic v1.9.0 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20210817164053-32db794688a5 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/mod v0.4.2 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20220624214902-1bab6f366d9e // indirect
-	golang.org/x/sync v0.0.0-20210220032951-036812b2e83c // indirect
-	golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20220715151400-c0bba94af5f8 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/text v0.3.7 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/time v0.0.0-20210723032227-1f47c861a9ac // indirect
-	golang.org/x/tools v0.1.5 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20200804184101-5ec99f83aff1 // indirect
-	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.27.1 // indirect
-	gopkg.in/check.v1 v1.0.0-20201130134442-10cb98267c6c // indirect
-	gopkg.in/ini.v1 v1.60.2 // indirect
-	gopkg.in/nullbio/null.v6 v6.0.0-20161116030900-40264a2e6b79 // indirect
-	gopkg.in/tomb.v1 v1.0.0-20141024135613-dd632973f1e7 // indirect
-	gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.4.0 // indirect
-	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20210107192922-496545a6307b // indirect
-	gotest.tools/v3 v3.2.0 // indirect
+	go.opencensus.io v0.22.1 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/sync v0.0.0-20190911185100-cd5d95a43a6e // indirect
+	google.golang.org/api v0.11.0
+	google.golang.org/appengine v1.6.5 // indirect
 )
+
+go 1.13
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
--- a/ip_manager/throttle.go
+++ b/ip_manager/throttle.go
@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import (
 )

 const IPCooldownPeriod = 20 * time.Second
-const unbanTimeout = 48 * time.Hour
+const unbanTimeout = 3 * time.Hour

 var stopper = stop.New()

@ -63,21 +63,21 @@ func GetIPPool(stopGrp *stop.Group) (*IPPool, error) {
 		lock:    &sync.RWMutex{},
 		stopGrp: stopGrp,
 	}
-	//ticker := time.NewTicker(10 * time.Second)
-	//go func() {
-	//	for {
-	//		select {
-	//		case <-stopGrp.Ch():
-	//			return
-	//		case <-ticker.C:
-	//			ipPoolInstance.lock.RLock()
-	//			for _, ip := range ipPoolInstance.ips {
-	//				log.Debugf("IP: %s\tInUse: %t\tVideoID: %s\tThrottled: %t\tLastUse: %.1f", ip.IP, ip.InUse, ip.UsedForVideo, ip.Throttled, time.Since(ip.LastUse).Seconds())
-	//			}
-	//			ipPoolInstance.lock.RUnlock()
-	//		}
-	//	}
-	//}()
+	ticker := time.NewTicker(10 * time.Second)
+	go func() {
+		for {
+			select {
+			case <-stopGrp.Ch():
+				return
+			case <-ticker.C:
+				ipPoolInstance.lock.RLock()
+				for _, ip := range ipPoolInstance.ips {
+					log.Debugf("IP: %s\tInUse: %t\tVideoID: %s\tThrottled: %t\tLastUse: %.1f", ip.IP, ip.InUse, ip.UsedForVideo, ip.Throttled, time.Since(ip.LastUse).Seconds())
+				}
+				ipPoolInstance.lock.RUnlock()
+			}
+		}
+	}()
 	return ipPoolInstance, nil
 }

@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ func AllInUse(ips []throttledIP) bool {
 func (i *IPPool) ReleaseIP(ip string) {
 	i.lock.Lock()
 	defer i.lock.Unlock()
-	for j := range i.ips {
+	for j, _ := range i.ips {
 		localIP := &i.ips[j]
 		if localIP.IP == ip {
 			localIP.InUse = false
@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ func (i *IPPool) ReleaseIP(ip string) {
 func (i *IPPool) ReleaseAll() {
 	i.lock.Lock()
 	defer i.lock.Unlock()
-	for j := range i.ips {
+	for j, _ := range i.ips {
 		if i.ips[j].Throttled {
 			continue
 		}
@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ func (i *IPPool) nextIP(forVideo string) (*throttledIP, error) {
 		}

 		var nextIP *throttledIP
-		for j := range i.ips {
+		for j, _ := range i.ips {
 			ip := &i.ips[j]
 			if ip.InUse || ip.Throttled {
 				continue
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@ -7,15 +7,13 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"time"

-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/configs"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/manager"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/shared"
-	ytUtils "github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/util"
-
 	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/errors"
 	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/util"
-
+	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/manager"
+	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/sdk"
+	ytUtils "github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/util"
 	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/promhttp"
+
 	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 )
@ -25,17 +23,23 @@ var Version string
 const defaultMaxTries = 3

 var (
-	cliFlags       shared.SyncFlags
-	maxVideoLength int
+	flags          sdk.SyncFlags
+	maxTries       int
+	refill         int
+	limit          int
+	syncStatus     string
+	channelID      string
+	syncFrom       int64
+	syncUntil      int64
+	concurrentJobs int
+	videosLimit    int
+	maxVideoSize   int
+	maxVideoLength float64
 )

 func main() {
 	rand.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano())
 	log.SetLevel(log.DebugLevel)
-	customFormatter := new(log.TextFormatter)
-	customFormatter.TimestampFormat = "2006-01-02 15:04:05"
-	customFormatter.FullTimestamp = true
-	log.SetFormatter(customFormatter)
 	http.Handle("/metrics", promhttp.Handler())
 	go func() {
 		log.Error(http.ListenAndServe(":2112", nil))
@ -47,25 +51,25 @@ func main() {
 		Args:  cobra.RangeArgs(0, 0),
 	}

-	cmd.Flags().IntVar(&cliFlags.MaxTries, "max-tries", defaultMaxTries, "Number of times to try a publish that fails")
-	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&cliFlags.TakeOverExistingChannel, "takeover-existing-channel", false, "If channel exists and we don't own it, take over the channel")
-	cmd.Flags().IntVar(&cliFlags.Limit, "limit", 0, "limit the amount of channels to sync")
-	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&cliFlags.SkipSpaceCheck, "skip-space-check", false, "Do not perform free space check on startup")
-	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&cliFlags.SyncUpdate, "update", false, "Update previously synced channels instead of syncing new ones")
-	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&cliFlags.SingleRun, "run-once", false, "Whether the process should be stopped after one cycle or not")
-	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&cliFlags.RemoveDBUnpublished, "remove-db-unpublished", false, "Remove videos from the database that are marked as published but aren't really published")
-	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&cliFlags.UpgradeMetadata, "upgrade-metadata", false, "Upgrade videos if they're on the old metadata version")
-	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&cliFlags.DisableTransfers, "no-transfers", false, "Skips the transferring process of videos, channels and supports")
-	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&cliFlags.QuickSync, "quick", false, "Look up only the last 50 videos from youtube")
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&cliFlags.Status, "status", "", "Specify which queue to pull from. Overrides --update")
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&cliFlags.SecondaryStatus, "status2", "", "Specify which secondary queue to pull from.")
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&cliFlags.ChannelID, "channelID", "", "If specified, only this channel will be synced.")
-	cmd.Flags().Int64Var(&cliFlags.SyncFrom, "after", time.Unix(0, 0).Unix(), "Specify from when to pull jobs [Unix time](Default: 0)")
-	cmd.Flags().Int64Var(&cliFlags.SyncUntil, "before", time.Now().AddDate(1, 0, 0).Unix(), "Specify until when to pull jobs [Unix time](Default: current Unix time)")
-	cmd.Flags().IntVar(&cliFlags.ConcurrentJobs, "concurrent-jobs", 1, "how many jobs to process concurrently")
-	cmd.Flags().IntVar(&cliFlags.VideosLimit, "videos-limit", 0, "how many videos to process per channel (leave 0 for automatic detection)")
-	cmd.Flags().IntVar(&cliFlags.MaxVideoSize, "max-size", 2048, "Maximum video size to process (in MB)")
-	cmd.Flags().IntVar(&maxVideoLength, "max-length", 2, "Maximum video length to process (in hours)")
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&flags.StopOnError, "stop-on-error", false, "If a publish fails, stop all publishing and exit")
+	cmd.Flags().IntVar(&maxTries, "max-tries", defaultMaxTries, "Number of times to try a publish that fails")
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&flags.TakeOverExistingChannel, "takeover-existing-channel", false, "If channel exists and we don't own it, take over the channel")
+	cmd.Flags().IntVar(&limit, "limit", 0, "limit the amount of channels to sync")
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&flags.SkipSpaceCheck, "skip-space-check", false, "Do not perform free space check on startup")
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&flags.SyncUpdate, "update", false, "Update previously synced channels instead of syncing new ones")
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&flags.SingleRun, "run-once", false, "Whether the process should be stopped after one cycle or not")
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&flags.RemoveDBUnpublished, "remove-db-unpublished", false, "Remove videos from the database that are marked as published but aren't really published")
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&flags.UpgradeMetadata, "upgrade-metadata", false, "Upgrade videos if they're on the old metadata version")
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&flags.DisableTransfers, "no-transfers", false, "Skips the transferring process of videos, channels and supports")
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&flags.QuickSync, "quick", false, "Look up only the last 50 videos from youtube")
+	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&syncStatus, "status", "", "Specify which queue to pull from. Overrides --update")
+	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&channelID, "channelID", "", "If specified, only this channel will be synced.")
+	cmd.Flags().Int64Var(&syncFrom, "after", time.Unix(0, 0).Unix(), "Specify from when to pull jobs [Unix time](Default: 0)")
+	cmd.Flags().Int64Var(&syncUntil, "before", time.Now().AddDate(1, 0, 0).Unix(), "Specify until when to pull jobs [Unix time](Default: current Unix time)")
+	cmd.Flags().IntVar(&concurrentJobs, "concurrent-jobs", 1, "how many jobs to process concurrently")
+	cmd.Flags().IntVar(&videosLimit, "videos-limit", 1000, "how many videos to process per channel")
+	cmd.Flags().IntVar(&maxVideoSize, "max-size", 2048, "Maximum video size to process (in MB)")
+	cmd.Flags().Float64Var(&maxVideoLength, "max-length", 2.0, "Maximum video length to process (in hours)")

 	if err := cmd.Execute(); err != nil {
 		fmt.Println(err)
@ -74,60 +78,117 @@ func main() {
 }

 func ytSync(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
-	err := configs.Init("./config.json")
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Fatalf("could not parse configuration file: %s", errors.FullTrace(err))
-	}
-
-	if configs.Configuration.SlackToken == "" {
-		log.Error("A slack token was not present in the config! Slack messages disabled!")
+	var hostname string
+	slackToken := os.Getenv("SLACK_TOKEN")
+	if slackToken == "" {
+		log.Error("A slack token was not present in env vars! Slack messages disabled!")
 	} else {
-		util.InitSlack(configs.Configuration.SlackToken, configs.Configuration.SlackChannel, configs.Configuration.GetHostname())
+		var err error
+		hostname, err = os.Hostname()
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Error("could not detect system hostname")
+			hostname = "ytsync-unknown"
+		}
+		if len(hostname) > 30 {
+			hostname = hostname[0:30]
+		}
+
+		util.InitSlack(os.Getenv("SLACK_TOKEN"), os.Getenv("SLACK_CHANNEL"), hostname)
 	}

-	if cliFlags.Status != "" && !util.InSlice(cliFlags.Status, shared.SyncStatuses) {
-		log.Errorf("status must be one of the following: %v\n", shared.SyncStatuses)
+	if syncStatus != "" && !util.InSlice(syncStatus, manager.SyncStatuses) {
+		log.Errorf("status must be one of the following: %v\n", manager.SyncStatuses)
 		return
 	}

-	if cliFlags.MaxTries < 1 {
+	if flags.StopOnError && maxTries != defaultMaxTries {
+		log.Errorln("--stop-on-error and --max-tries are mutually exclusive")
+		return
+	}
+	if maxTries < 1 {
 		log.Errorln("setting --max-tries less than 1 doesn't make sense")
 		return
 	}

-	if cliFlags.Limit < 0 {
+	if limit < 0 {
 		log.Errorln("setting --limit less than 0 (unlimited) doesn't make sense")
 		return
 	}
-	cliFlags.MaxVideoLength = time.Duration(maxVideoLength) * time.Hour

-	if configs.Configuration.InternalApisEndpoint == "" {
-		log.Errorln("An Internal APIs Endpoint was not defined")
+	apiURL := os.Getenv("LBRY_WEB_API")
+	apiToken := os.Getenv("LBRY_API_TOKEN")
+	youtubeAPIKey := os.Getenv("YOUTUBE_API_KEY")
+	lbrycrdString := os.Getenv("LBRYCRD_STRING")
+	awsS3ID := os.Getenv("AWS_S3_ID")
+	awsS3Secret := os.Getenv("AWS_S3_SECRET")
+	awsS3Region := os.Getenv("AWS_S3_REGION")
+	awsS3Bucket := os.Getenv("AWS_S3_BUCKET")
+	if apiURL == "" {
+		log.Errorln("An API URL was not defined. Please set the environment variable LBRY_WEB_API")
 		return
 	}
-	if configs.Configuration.InternalApisAuthToken == "" {
-		log.Errorln("An Internal APIs auth token was not defined")
+	if apiToken == "" {
+		log.Errorln("An API Token was not defined. Please set the environment variable LBRY_API_TOKEN")
 		return
 	}
-	if configs.Configuration.WalletS3Config.ID == "" || configs.Configuration.WalletS3Config.Region == "" || configs.Configuration.WalletS3Config.Bucket == "" || configs.Configuration.WalletS3Config.Secret == "" || configs.Configuration.WalletS3Config.Endpoint == "" {
-		log.Errorln("Wallet S3 configuration is incomplete")
+	if youtubeAPIKey == "" {
+		log.Errorln("A Youtube API key was not defined. Please set the environment variable YOUTUBE_API_KEY")
 		return
 	}
-	if configs.Configuration.BlockchaindbS3Config.ID == "" || configs.Configuration.BlockchaindbS3Config.Region == "" || configs.Configuration.BlockchaindbS3Config.Bucket == "" || configs.Configuration.BlockchaindbS3Config.Secret == "" || configs.Configuration.BlockchaindbS3Config.Endpoint == "" {
-		log.Errorln("Blockchain DBs S3 configuration is incomplete")
+	if awsS3ID == "" {
+		log.Errorln("AWS S3 ID credentials were not defined. Please set the environment variable AWS_S3_ID")
 		return
 	}
-	if configs.Configuration.LbrycrdString == "" {
-		log.Infoln("Using default (local) lbrycrd instance. Set lbrycrd_string if you want to use something else")
+	if awsS3Secret == "" {
+		log.Errorln("AWS S3 Secret credentials were not defined. Please set the environment variable AWS_S3_SECRET")
+		return
+	}
+	if awsS3Region == "" {
+		log.Errorln("AWS S3 Region was not defined. Please set the environment variable AWS_S3_REGION")
+		return
+	}
+	if awsS3Bucket == "" {
+		log.Errorln("AWS S3 Bucket was not defined. Please set the environment variable AWS_S3_BUCKET")
+		return
+	}
+	if lbrycrdString == "" {
+		log.Infoln("Using default (local) lbrycrd instance. Set LBRYCRD_STRING if you want to use something else")
 	}

 	blobsDir := ytUtils.GetBlobsDir()

+	syncProperties := &sdk.SyncProperties{
+		SyncFrom:         syncFrom,
+		SyncUntil:        syncUntil,
+		YoutubeChannelID: channelID,
+	}
+	apiConfig := &sdk.APIConfig{
+		YoutubeAPIKey: youtubeAPIKey,
+		ApiURL:        apiURL,
+		ApiToken:      apiToken,
+		HostName:      hostname,
+	}
 	sm := manager.NewSyncManager(
-		cliFlags,
+		flags,
+		maxTries,
+		refill,
+		limit,
+		concurrentJobs,
+		concurrentJobs,
 		blobsDir,
+		videosLimit,
+		maxVideoSize,
+		lbrycrdString,
+		awsS3ID,
+		awsS3Secret,
+		awsS3Region,
+		awsS3Bucket,
+		syncStatus,
+		syncProperties,
+		apiConfig,
+		maxVideoLength,
 	)
-	err = sm.Start()
+	err := sm.Start()
 	if err != nil {
 		ytUtils.SendErrorToSlack(errors.FullTrace(err))
 	}
--- a/manager/count.go
+++ b/manager/count.go
@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+package manager
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+
+	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/errors"
+
+	"google.golang.org/api/googleapi/transport"
+	"google.golang.org/api/youtube/v3"
+)
+
+func (s *Sync) CountVideos() (uint64, error) {
+	client := &http.Client{
+		Transport: &transport.APIKey{Key: s.APIConfig.YoutubeAPIKey},
+	}
+
+	service, err := youtube.New(client)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, errors.Prefix("error creating YouTube service", err)
+	}
+
+	response, err := service.Channels.List("statistics").Id(s.YoutubeChannelID).Do()
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, errors.Prefix("error getting channels", err)
+	}
+
+	if len(response.Items) < 1 {
+		return 0, errors.Err("youtube channel not found")
+	}
+
+	return response.Items[0].Statistics.VideoCount, nil
+}
--- a/manager/manager.go
+++ b/manager/manager.go
@ -3,53 +3,101 @@ package manager
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"strings"
-	"sync"
 	"syscall"
 	"time"

 	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/blobs_reflector"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/configs"
 	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/ip_manager"
 	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/namer"
 	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/sdk"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/shared"
 	logUtils "github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/util"

 	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/errors"
 	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/util"

+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/credentials"
 	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
 )

 type SyncManager struct {
-	CliFlags   shared.SyncFlags
-	ApiConfig  *sdk.APIConfig
-	LbrycrdDsn string
-
-	blobsDir       string
-	channelsToSync []Sync
+	SyncFlags        sdk.SyncFlags
+	maxTries         int
+	refill           int
+	limit            int
+	concurrentJobs   int
+	concurrentVideos int
+	blobsDir         string
+	videosLimit      int
+	maxVideoSize     int
+	maxVideoLength   float64
+	lbrycrdString    string
+	awsS3ID          string
+	awsS3Secret      string
+	awsS3Region      string
+	syncStatus       string
+	awsS3Bucket      string
+	syncProperties   *sdk.SyncProperties
+	apiConfig        *sdk.APIConfig
 }

-func NewSyncManager(cliFlags shared.SyncFlags, blobsDir string) *SyncManager {
+func NewSyncManager(syncFlags sdk.SyncFlags, maxTries int, refill int, limit int, concurrentJobs int, concurrentVideos int, blobsDir string, videosLimit int,
+	maxVideoSize int, lbrycrdString string, awsS3ID string, awsS3Secret string, awsS3Region string, awsS3Bucket string,
+	syncStatus string, syncProperties *sdk.SyncProperties, apiConfig *sdk.APIConfig, maxVideoLength float64) *SyncManager {
 	return &SyncManager{
-		CliFlags:   cliFlags,
-		blobsDir:   blobsDir,
-		LbrycrdDsn: configs.Configuration.LbrycrdString,
-		ApiConfig:  sdk.GetAPIsConfigs(),
+		SyncFlags:        syncFlags,
+		maxTries:         maxTries,
+		refill:           refill,
+		limit:            limit,
+		concurrentJobs:   concurrentJobs,
+		concurrentVideos: concurrentVideos,
+		blobsDir:         blobsDir,
+		videosLimit:      videosLimit,
+		maxVideoSize:     maxVideoSize,
+		maxVideoLength:   maxVideoLength,
+		lbrycrdString:    lbrycrdString,
+		awsS3ID:          awsS3ID,
+		awsS3Secret:      awsS3Secret,
+		awsS3Region:      awsS3Region,
+		awsS3Bucket:      awsS3Bucket,
+		syncStatus:       syncStatus,
+		syncProperties:   syncProperties,
+		apiConfig:        apiConfig,
 	}
 }
-func (s *SyncManager) enqueueChannel(channel *shared.YoutubeChannel) {
-	s.channelsToSync = append(s.channelsToSync, Sync{
-		DbChannelData: channel,
-		Manager:       s,
-		namer:         namer.NewNamer(),
-		hardVideoFailure: hardVideoFailure{
-			lock: &sync.Mutex{},
-		},
-	})
-}
+
+const (
+	StatusPending        = "pending"        // waiting for permission to sync
+	StatusPendingEmail   = "pendingemail"   // permission granted but missing email
+	StatusQueued         = "queued"         // in sync queue. will be synced soon
+	StatusPendingUpgrade = "pendingupgrade" // in sync queue. will be synced soon
+	StatusSyncing        = "syncing"        // syncing now
+	StatusSynced         = "synced"         // done
+	StatusFailed         = "failed"
+	StatusFinalized      = "finalized" // no more changes allowed
+	StatusAbandoned      = "abandoned" // deleted on youtube or banned
+)
+const LatestMetadataVersion = 2
+
+var SyncStatuses = []string{StatusPending, StatusPendingEmail, StatusPendingUpgrade, StatusQueued, StatusSyncing, StatusSynced, StatusFailed, StatusFinalized, StatusAbandoned}
+
+const (
+	VideoStatusPublished     = "published"
+	VideoStatusFailed        = "failed"
+	VideoStatusUpgradeFailed = "upgradefailed"
+	VideoStatusUnpublished   = "unpublished"
+	VideoStatusTranferFailed = "transferfailed"
+)
+
+const (
+	TransferStateNotTouched = iota
+	TransferStatePending
+	TransferStateComplete
+	TransferStateManual
+)

 func (s *SyncManager) Start() error {
+
 	if logUtils.ShouldCleanOnStartup() {
 		err := logUtils.CleanForStartup()
 		if err != nil {
@ -57,71 +105,108 @@ func (s *SyncManager) Start() error {
 		}
 	}

-	var lastChannelProcessed string
-	var secondLastChannelProcessed string
 	syncCount := 0
 	for {
-		s.channelsToSync = make([]Sync, 0, 10) // reset sync queue
 		err := s.checkUsedSpace()
 		if err != nil {
 			return errors.Err(err)
 		}
+
+		var syncs []Sync
 		shouldInterruptLoop := false

-		if s.CliFlags.IsSingleChannelSync() {
-			channels, err := s.ApiConfig.FetchChannels("", &s.CliFlags)
+		isSingleChannelSync := s.syncProperties.YoutubeChannelID != ""
+		if isSingleChannelSync {
+			channels, err := s.apiConfig.FetchChannels("", s.syncProperties)
 			if err != nil {
 				return errors.Err(err)
 			}
 			if len(channels) != 1 {
 				return errors.Err("Expected 1 channel, %d returned", len(channels))
 			}
-			s.enqueueChannel(&channels[0])
+			lbryChannelName := channels[0].DesiredChannelName
+			syncs = make([]Sync, 1)
+			syncs[0] = Sync{
+				APIConfig:            s.apiConfig,
+				YoutubeChannelID:     s.syncProperties.YoutubeChannelID,
+				LbryChannelName:      lbryChannelName,
+				lbryChannelID:        channels[0].ChannelClaimID,
+				MaxTries:             s.maxTries,
+				ConcurrentVideos:     s.concurrentVideos,
+				Refill:               s.refill,
+				Manager:              s,
+				MaxVideoLength:       s.maxVideoLength,
+				LbrycrdString:        s.lbrycrdString,
+				AwsS3ID:              s.awsS3ID,
+				AwsS3Secret:          s.awsS3Secret,
+				AwsS3Region:          s.awsS3Region,
+				AwsS3Bucket:          s.awsS3Bucket,
+				namer:                namer.NewNamer(),
+				Fee:                  channels[0].Fee,
+				clientPublishAddress: channels[0].PublishAddress,
+				publicKey:            channels[0].PublicKey,
+				transferState:        channels[0].TransferState,
+			}
 			shouldInterruptLoop = true
 		} else {
 			var queuesToSync []string
-			if s.CliFlags.Status != "" {
-				queuesToSync = append(queuesToSync, shared.StatusSyncing, s.CliFlags.Status)
-			} else if s.CliFlags.SyncUpdate {
-				queuesToSync = append(queuesToSync, shared.StatusSyncing, shared.StatusSynced)
+			if s.syncStatus != "" {
+				queuesToSync = append(queuesToSync, s.syncStatus)
+			} else if s.SyncFlags.SyncUpdate {
+				queuesToSync = append(queuesToSync, StatusSyncing, StatusSynced)
 			} else {
-				queuesToSync = append(queuesToSync, shared.StatusSyncing, shared.StatusQueued)
-			}
-			if s.CliFlags.SecondaryStatus != "" {
-				queuesToSync = append(queuesToSync, s.CliFlags.SecondaryStatus)
+				queuesToSync = append(queuesToSync, StatusSyncing, StatusQueued)
 			}
 		queues:
 			for _, q := range queuesToSync {
-				channels, err := s.ApiConfig.FetchChannels(q, &s.CliFlags)
+				//temporary override for sync-until to give tom the time to review the channels
+				if q == StatusQueued {
+					s.syncProperties.SyncUntil = time.Now().Add(-8 * time.Hour).Unix()
+				}
+				channels, err := s.apiConfig.FetchChannels(q, s.syncProperties)
 				if err != nil {
 					return err
 				}
-				log.Infof("Currently processing the \"%s\" queue with %d channels", q, len(channels))
-				for _, c := range channels {
-					s.enqueueChannel(&c)
-					queueAll := q == shared.StatusFailed || q == shared.StatusSyncing
-					if !queueAll {
-						break queues
+				for i, c := range channels {
+					log.Infof("There are %d channels in the \"%s\" queue", len(channels)-i, q)
+					maxVideoLength := s.maxVideoLength
+					if c.TotalSubscribers < 1000 {
+						maxVideoLength = 1.0
+					}
+					syncs = append(syncs, Sync{
+						APIConfig:            s.apiConfig,
+						YoutubeChannelID:     c.ChannelId,
+						LbryChannelName:      c.DesiredChannelName,
+						lbryChannelID:        c.ChannelClaimID,
+						MaxTries:             s.maxTries,
+						ConcurrentVideos:     s.concurrentVideos,
+						MaxVideoLength:       maxVideoLength,
+						Refill:               s.refill,
+						Manager:              s,
+						LbrycrdString:        s.lbrycrdString,
+						AwsS3ID:              s.awsS3ID,
+						AwsS3Secret:          s.awsS3Secret,
+						AwsS3Region:          s.awsS3Region,
+						AwsS3Bucket:          s.awsS3Bucket,
+						namer:                namer.NewNamer(),
+						Fee:                  c.Fee,
+						clientPublishAddress: c.PublishAddress,
+						publicKey:            c.PublicKey,
+						transferState:        c.TransferState,
+					})
+					if q != StatusFailed {
+						continue queues
 					}
 				}
-				log.Infof("Drained the \"%s\" queue", q)
 			}
 		}
-		if len(s.channelsToSync) == 0 {
+		if len(syncs) == 0 {
 			log.Infoln("No channels to sync. Pausing 5 minutes!")
 			time.Sleep(5 * time.Minute)
 		}
-		for _, sync := range s.channelsToSync {
-			if lastChannelProcessed == sync.DbChannelData.ChannelId && secondLastChannelProcessed == lastChannelProcessed {
-				util.SendToSlack("We just killed a sync for %s to stop looping! (%s)", sync.DbChannelData.DesiredChannelName, sync.DbChannelData.ChannelId)
-				stopTheLoops := errors.Err("Found channel %s running 3 times, set it to failed, and reprocess later", sync.DbChannelData.DesiredChannelName)
-				sync.setChannelTerminationStatus(&stopTheLoops)
-				continue
-			}
-			secondLastChannelProcessed = lastChannelProcessed
-			lastChannelProcessed = sync.DbChannelData.ChannelId
+		for _, sync := range syncs {
 			shouldNotCount := false
-			logUtils.SendInfoToSlack("Syncing %s (%s) to LBRY! total processed channels since startup: %d", sync.DbChannelData.DesiredChannelName, sync.DbChannelData.ChannelId, syncCount+1)
+			logUtils.SendInfoToSlack("Syncing %s (%s) to LBRY! total processed channels since startup: %d", sync.LbryChannelName, sync.YoutubeChannelID, syncCount+1)
 			err := sync.FullCycle()
 			//TODO: THIS IS A TEMPORARY WORK AROUND FOR THE STUPID IP LOCKUP BUG
 			ipPool, _ := ip_manager.GetIPPool(sync.grp)
@ -138,7 +223,7 @@ func (s *SyncManager) Start() error {
 					"WALLET HAS NOT BEEN MOVED TO THE WALLET BACKUP DIR",
 					"NotEnoughFunds",
 					"no space left on device",
-					"there was a problem uploading the wallet",
+					"failure uploading wallet",
 					"the channel in the wallet is different than the channel in the database",
 					"this channel does not belong to this wallet!",
 					"You already have a stream claim published under the name",
@ -149,39 +234,40 @@ func (s *SyncManager) Start() error {
 				}
 				shouldNotCount = strings.Contains(err.Error(), "this youtube channel is being managed by another server")
 				if !shouldNotCount {
-					logUtils.SendInfoToSlack("A non fatal error was reported by the sync process.\n%s", errors.FullTrace(err))
+					logUtils.SendInfoToSlack("A non fatal error was reported by the sync process. %s\nContinuing...", err.Error())
 				}
 			}
-			err = logUtils.CleanupMetadata()
-			if err != nil {
-				log.Errorf("something went wrong while trying to clear out the video metadata directory: %s", errors.FullTrace(err))
-			}
 			err = blobs_reflector.ReflectAndClean()
 			if err != nil {
 				return errors.Prefix("@Nikooo777 something went wrong while reflecting blobs", err)
 			}
-			logUtils.SendInfoToSlack("%s (%s) reached an end. Total processed channels since startup: %d", sync.DbChannelData.DesiredChannelName, sync.DbChannelData.ChannelId, syncCount+1)
+			logUtils.SendInfoToSlack("Syncing %s (%s) reached an end. total processed channels since startup: %d", sync.LbryChannelName, sync.YoutubeChannelID, syncCount+1)
 			if !shouldNotCount {
 				syncCount++
 			}
-			if sync.IsInterrupted() || (s.CliFlags.Limit != 0 && syncCount >= s.CliFlags.Limit) {
+			if sync.IsInterrupted() || (s.limit != 0 && syncCount >= s.limit) {
 				shouldInterruptLoop = true
 				break
 			}
 		}
-		if shouldInterruptLoop || s.CliFlags.SingleRun {
+		if shouldInterruptLoop || s.SyncFlags.SingleRun {
 			break
 		}
 	}
 	return nil
 }
-
+func (s *SyncManager) GetS3AWSConfig() aws.Config {
+	return aws.Config{
+		Credentials: credentials.NewStaticCredentials(s.awsS3ID, s.awsS3Secret, ""),
+		Region:      &s.awsS3Region,
+	}
+}
 func (s *SyncManager) checkUsedSpace() error {
 	usedPctile, err := GetUsedSpace(logUtils.GetBlobsDir())
 	if err != nil {
 		return errors.Err(err)
 	}
-	if usedPctile >= 0.90 && !s.CliFlags.SkipSpaceCheck {
+	if usedPctile >= 0.90 && !s.SyncFlags.SkipSpaceCheck {
 		return errors.Err(fmt.Sprintf("more than 90%% of the space has been used. use --skip-space-check to ignore. Used: %.1f%%", usedPctile*100))
 	}
 	log.Infof("disk usage: %.1f%%", usedPctile*100)
--- a/manager/s3_storage.go
+++ b/manager/s3_storage.go
@ -1,285 +0,0 @@
-package manager
-
-import (
-	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
-	"strings"
-	"time"
-
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/configs"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/util"
-
-	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/errors"
-
-	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
-	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/awserr"
-	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/session"
-	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/s3"
-	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/s3/s3manager"
-	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
-)
-
-func (s *Sync) getS3Downloader(config *aws.Config) (*s3manager.Downloader, error) {
-	s3Session, err := session.NewSession(config)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, errors.Prefix("error starting session", err)
-	}
-	downloader := s3manager.NewDownloader(s3Session)
-	return downloader, nil
-}
-
-func (s *Sync) getS3Uploader(config *aws.Config) (*s3manager.Uploader, error) {
-	s3Session, err := session.NewSession(config)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, errors.Prefix("error starting session", err)
-	}
-	uploader := s3manager.NewUploader(s3Session)
-	return uploader, nil
-}
-
-func (s *Sync) downloadWallet() error {
-	defaultWalletDir, defaultTempWalletDir, key, err := s.getWalletPaths()
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	downloader, err := s.getS3Downloader(configs.Configuration.WalletS3Config.GetS3AWSConfig())
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	out, err := os.Create(defaultTempWalletDir)
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Prefix("error creating temp wallet", err)
-	}
-	defer out.Close()
-
-	bytesWritten, err := downloader.Download(out, &s3.GetObjectInput{
-		Bucket: aws.String(configs.Configuration.WalletS3Config.Bucket),
-		Key:    key,
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		// Casting to the awserr.Error type will allow you to inspect the error
-		// code returned by the service in code. The error code can be used
-		// to switch on context specific functionality. In this case a context
-		// specific error message is printed to the user based on the bucket
-		// and key existing.
-		//
-		// For information on other S3 API error codes see:
-		// http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/ErrorResponses.html
-		if aerr, ok := err.(awserr.Error); ok {
-			code := aerr.Code()
-			if code == s3.ErrCodeNoSuchKey {
-				return errors.Err("wallet not on S3")
-			}
-		}
-		return err
-	} else if bytesWritten == 0 {
-		return errors.Err("zero bytes written")
-	}
-
-	err = os.Rename(defaultTempWalletDir, defaultWalletDir)
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Prefix("error replacing temp wallet for default wallet", err)
-	}
-
-	return nil
-}
-
-func (s *Sync) downloadBlockchainDB() error {
-	if util.IsRegTest() {
-		return nil // tests fail if we re-use the same blockchain DB
-	}
-	defaultBDBPath, defaultTempBDBPath, key, err := s.getBlockchainDBPaths()
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	files, err := filepath.Glob(defaultBDBPath + "*")
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	for _, f := range files {
-		err = os.Remove(f)
-		if err != nil {
-			return errors.Err(err)
-		}
-	}
-	if s.DbChannelData.WipeDB {
-		return nil
-	}
-	downloader, err := s.getS3Downloader(configs.Configuration.BlockchaindbS3Config.GetS3AWSConfig())
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	out, err := os.Create(defaultTempBDBPath)
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Prefix("error creating temp blockchain DB file", err)
-	}
-	defer out.Close()
-
-	bytesWritten, err := downloader.Download(out, &s3.GetObjectInput{
-		Bucket: aws.String(configs.Configuration.BlockchaindbS3Config.Bucket),
-		Key:    key,
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		// Casting to the awserr.Error type will allow you to inspect the error
-		// code returned by the service in code. The error code can be used
-		// to switch on context specific functionality. In this case a context
-		// specific error message is printed to the user based on the bucket
-		// and key existing.
-		//
-		// For information on other S3 API error codes see:
-		// http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/ErrorResponses.html
-		if aerr, ok := err.(awserr.Error); ok {
-			code := aerr.Code()
-			if code == s3.ErrCodeNoSuchKey {
-				return nil // let ytsync sync the database by itself
-			}
-		}
-		return errors.Err(err)
-	} else if bytesWritten == 0 {
-		return errors.Err("zero bytes written")
-	}
-
-	blockchainDbDir := strings.Replace(defaultBDBPath, "blockchain.db", "", -1)
-	err = util.Untar(defaultTempBDBPath, blockchainDbDir)
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Prefix("error extracting blockchain.db files", err)
-	}
-	err = os.Remove(defaultTempBDBPath)
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	log.Printf("blockchain.db data downloaded and extracted to %s", blockchainDbDir)
-	return nil
-}
-
-func (s *Sync) getWalletPaths() (defaultWallet, tempWallet string, key *string, err error) {
-	defaultWallet = os.Getenv("HOME") + "/.lbryum/wallets/default_wallet"
-	tempWallet = os.Getenv("HOME") + "/.lbryum/wallets/tmp_wallet"
-	key = aws.String("/wallets/" + s.DbChannelData.ChannelId)
-	if util.IsRegTest() {
-		defaultWallet = os.Getenv("HOME") + "/.lbryum_regtest/wallets/default_wallet"
-		tempWallet = os.Getenv("HOME") + "/.lbryum_regtest/wallets/tmp_wallet"
-		key = aws.String("/regtest/" + s.DbChannelData.ChannelId)
-	}
-
-	lbryumDir := os.Getenv("LBRYUM_DIR")
-	if lbryumDir != "" {
-		defaultWallet = lbryumDir + "/wallets/default_wallet"
-		tempWallet = lbryumDir + "/wallets/tmp_wallet"
-	}
-
-	if _, err := os.Stat(defaultWallet); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
-		return "", "", nil, errors.Err("default_wallet already exists")
-	}
-	return
-}
-
-func (s *Sync) getBlockchainDBPaths() (defaultDB, tempDB string, key *string, err error) {
-	lbryumDir := os.Getenv("LBRYUM_DIR")
-	if lbryumDir == "" {
-		if util.IsRegTest() {
-			lbryumDir = os.Getenv("HOME") + "/.lbryum_regtest"
-		} else {
-			lbryumDir = os.Getenv("HOME") + "/.lbryum"
-		}
-	}
-	defaultDB = lbryumDir + "/lbc_mainnet/blockchain.db"
-	tempDB = lbryumDir + "/lbc_mainnet/tmp_blockchain.tar"
-	key = aws.String("/blockchain_dbs/" + s.DbChannelData.ChannelId + ".tar")
-	if util.IsRegTest() {
-		defaultDB = lbryumDir + "/lbc_regtest/blockchain.db"
-		tempDB = lbryumDir + "/lbc_regtest/tmp_blockchain.tar"
-		key = aws.String("/regtest_dbs/" + s.DbChannelData.ChannelId + ".tar")
-	}
-	return
-}
-
-func (s *Sync) uploadWallet() error {
-	defaultWalletDir := util.GetDefaultWalletPath()
-	key := aws.String("/wallets/" + s.DbChannelData.ChannelId)
-	if util.IsRegTest() {
-		key = aws.String("/regtest/" + s.DbChannelData.ChannelId)
-	}
-
-	if _, err := os.Stat(defaultWalletDir); os.IsNotExist(err) {
-		return errors.Err("default_wallet does not exist")
-	}
-
-	uploader, err := s.getS3Uploader(configs.Configuration.WalletS3Config.GetS3AWSConfig())
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	file, err := os.Open(defaultWalletDir)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	defer file.Close()
-
-	start := time.Now()
-
-	for time.Since(start) < 30*time.Minute {
-		_, err = uploader.Upload(&s3manager.UploadInput{
-			Bucket: aws.String(configs.Configuration.WalletS3Config.Bucket),
-			Key:    key,
-			Body:   file,
-		})
-		if err != nil {
-			time.Sleep(30 * time.Second)
-			continue
-		}
-		break
-	}
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Prefix("there was a problem uploading the wallet to S3", errors.Err(err))
-	}
-	log.Println("wallet uploaded to S3")
-
-	return os.Remove(defaultWalletDir)
-}
-
-func (s *Sync) uploadBlockchainDB() error {
-	defaultBDBDir, _, key, err := s.getBlockchainDBPaths()
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Err(err)
-	}
-
-	if _, err := os.Stat(defaultBDBDir); os.IsNotExist(err) {
-		return errors.Err("blockchain.db does not exist")
-	}
-	files, err := filepath.Glob(defaultBDBDir + "*")
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	tarPath := strings.Replace(defaultBDBDir, "blockchain.db", "", -1) + s.DbChannelData.ChannelId + ".tar"
-	err = util.CreateTarball(tarPath, files)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	uploader, err := s.getS3Uploader(configs.Configuration.BlockchaindbS3Config.GetS3AWSConfig())
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	file, err := os.Open(tarPath)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	defer file.Close()
-
-	_, err = uploader.Upload(&s3manager.UploadInput{
-		Bucket: aws.String(configs.Configuration.BlockchaindbS3Config.Bucket),
-		Key:    key,
-		Body:   file,
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	log.Println("blockchain.db files uploaded to S3")
-	err = os.Remove(tarPath)
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	return os.Remove(defaultBDBDir)
-}
--- a/manager/setup.go
+++ b/manager/setup.go
@ -3,23 +3,23 @@ package manager
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"math"
+	"net/http"
 	"strconv"
-	"strings"
 	"time"

 	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/errors"
 	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/jsonrpc"
 	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/util"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/shared"
 	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/timing"
 	logUtils "github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/util"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/ytapi"

 	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/tags_manager"
 	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/thumbs"

 	"github.com/shopspring/decimal"
 	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
+	"google.golang.org/api/googleapi/transport"
+	"google.golang.org/api/youtube/v3"
 )

 func (s *Sync) enableAddressReuse() error {
@ -74,7 +74,11 @@ func (s *Sync) walletSetup() error {
 	}
 	log.Debugf("Starting balance is %.4f", balance)

-	videosOnYoutube := int(s.DbChannelData.TotalVideos)
+	n, err := s.CountVideos()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	videosOnYoutube := int(n)

 	log.Debugf("Source channel has %d videos", videosOnYoutube)
 	if videosOnYoutube == 0 {
@ -99,21 +103,18 @@ func (s *Sync) walletSetup() error {

 	log.Debugf("We already allocated credits for %d published videos and %d failed videos", publishedCount, failedCount)

-	if videosOnYoutube > s.Manager.CliFlags.VideosToSync(s.DbChannelData.TotalSubscribers) {
-		videosOnYoutube = s.Manager.CliFlags.VideosToSync(s.DbChannelData.TotalSubscribers)
+	if videosOnYoutube > s.Manager.videosLimit {
+		videosOnYoutube = s.Manager.videosLimit
 	}
 	unallocatedVideos := videosOnYoutube - (publishedCount + failedCount)
-	if unallocatedVideos < 0 {
-		unallocatedVideos = 0
-	}
 	channelFee := channelClaimAmount
-	channelAlreadyClaimed := s.DbChannelData.ChannelClaimID != ""
+	channelAlreadyClaimed := s.lbryChannelID != ""
 	if channelAlreadyClaimed {
 		channelFee = 0.0
 	}
 	requiredBalance := float64(unallocatedVideos)*(publishAmount+estimatedMaxTxFee) + channelFee
-	if s.Manager.CliFlags.UpgradeMetadata {
-		requiredBalance += float64(notUpgradedCount) * estimatedMaxTxFee
+	if s.Manager.SyncFlags.UpgradeMetadata {
+		requiredBalance += float64(notUpgradedCount) * 0.001
 	}

 	refillAmount := 0.0
@ -121,8 +122,8 @@ func (s *Sync) walletSetup() error {
 		refillAmount = math.Max(math.Max(requiredBalance-balance, minimumAccountBalance-balance), minimumRefillAmount)
 	}

-	if s.Manager.CliFlags.Refill > 0 {
-		refillAmount += float64(s.Manager.CliFlags.Refill)
+	if s.Refill > 0 {
+		refillAmount += float64(s.Refill)
 	}

 	if refillAmount > 0 {
@ -130,12 +131,6 @@ func (s *Sync) walletSetup() error {
 		if err != nil {
 			return errors.Err(err)
 		}
-	} else if balance > requiredBalance {
-		extraLBC := balance - requiredBalance
-		if extraLBC > 5 {
-			sendBackAmount := extraLBC - 1
-			logUtils.SendInfoToSlack("channel %s has %.1f credits which is %.1f more than it requires (%.1f). We should send at least %.1f that back.", s.DbChannelData.ChannelId, balance, extraLBC, requiredBalance, sendBackAmount)
-		}
 	}

 	claimAddress, err := s.daemon.AddressList(nil, nil, 1, 20)
@ -144,13 +139,13 @@ func (s *Sync) walletSetup() error {
 	} else if claimAddress == nil {
 		return errors.Err("could not get an address")
 	}
-	if s.DbChannelData.PublishAddress.Address == "" || !s.shouldTransfer() {
-		s.DbChannelData.PublishAddress.Address = string(claimAddress.Items[0].Address)
-		s.DbChannelData.PublishAddress.IsMine = true
-	}
-	if s.DbChannelData.PublishAddress.Address == "" {
+	s.claimAddress = string(claimAddress.Items[0].Address)
+	if s.claimAddress == "" {
 		return errors.Err("found blank claim address")
 	}
+	if s.shouldTransfer() {
+		s.claimAddress = s.clientPublishAddress
+	}

 	err = s.ensureEnoughUTXOs()
 	if err != nil {
@ -235,15 +230,6 @@ func (s *Sync) ensureEnoughUTXOs() error {
 		if err != nil {
 			return errors.Err(err)
 		}
-		//this is dumb but sometimes the balance is negative and it breaks everything, so let's check again
-		if balanceAmount < 0 {
-			log.Infof("negative balance of %.2f found. Waiting to retry...", balanceAmount)
-			time.Sleep(10 * time.Second)
-			balanceAmount, err = strconv.ParseFloat(balance.Available.String(), 64)
-			if err != nil {
-				return errors.Err(err)
-			}
-		}
 		maxUTXOs := uint64(500)
 		desiredUTXOCount := uint64(math.Floor((balanceAmount) / 0.1))
 		if desiredUTXOCount > maxUTXOs {
@ -280,14 +266,15 @@ func (s *Sync) ensureEnoughUTXOs() error {
 }

 func (s *Sync) waitForNewBlock() error {
-	defer func(start time.Time) { timing.TimedComponent("waitForNewBlock").Add(time.Since(start)) }(time.Now())
-
+	start := time.Now()
+	defer func(start time.Time) {
+		timing.TimedComponent("waitForNewBlock").Add(time.Since(start))
+	}(start)
 	log.Printf("regtest: %t, docker: %t", logUtils.IsRegTest(), logUtils.IsUsingDocker())
 	status, err := s.daemon.Status()
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-
 	for status.Wallet.Blocks == 0 || status.Wallet.BlocksBehind != 0 {
 		time.Sleep(5 * time.Second)
 		status, err = s.daemon.Status()
@ -313,21 +300,18 @@ func (s *Sync) waitForNewBlock() error {
 			return err
 		}
 	}
-	time.Sleep(5 * time.Second)
 	return nil
 }

 func (s *Sync) GenerateRegtestBlock() error {
-	lbrycrd, err := logUtils.GetLbrycrdClient(s.Manager.LbrycrdDsn)
+	lbrycrd, err := logUtils.GetLbrycrdClient(s.LbrycrdString)
 	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Prefix("error getting lbrycrd client", err)
+		return errors.Prefix("error getting lbrycrd client: ", err)
 	}
-
 	txs, err := lbrycrd.Generate(1)
 	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Prefix("error generating new block", err)
+		return errors.Prefix("error generating new block: ", err)
 	}
-
 	for _, tx := range txs {
 		log.Info("Generated tx: ", tx.String())
 	}
@ -335,13 +319,15 @@ func (s *Sync) GenerateRegtestBlock() error {
 }

 func (s *Sync) ensureChannelOwnership() error {
-	defer func(start time.Time) { timing.TimedComponent("ensureChannelOwnership").Add(time.Since(start)) }(time.Now())
-
-	if s.DbChannelData.DesiredChannelName == "" {
+	start := time.Now()
+	defer func(start time.Time) {
+		timing.TimedComponent("ensureChannelOwnership").Add(time.Since(start))
+	}(start)
+	if s.LbryChannelName == "" {
 		return errors.Err("no channel name set")
 	}

-	channels, err := s.daemon.ChannelList(nil, 1, 500, nil)
+	channels, err := s.daemon.ChannelList(nil, 1, 50, nil)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	} else if channels == nil {
@ -350,37 +336,39 @@ func (s *Sync) ensureChannelOwnership() error {

 	var channelToUse *jsonrpc.Transaction
 	if len((*channels).Items) > 0 {
-		if s.DbChannelData.ChannelClaimID == "" {
+		if s.lbryChannelID == "" {
 			return errors.Err("this channel does not have a recorded claimID in the database. To prevent failures, updates are not supported until an entry is manually added in the database")
 		}
 		for _, c := range (*channels).Items {
 			log.Debugf("checking listed channel %s (%s)", c.ClaimID, c.Name)
-			if c.ClaimID != s.DbChannelData.ChannelClaimID {
+			if c.ClaimID != s.lbryChannelID {
 				continue
 			}
-			if c.Name != s.DbChannelData.DesiredChannelName {
+			if c.Name != s.LbryChannelName {
 				return errors.Err("the channel in the wallet is different than the channel in the database")
 			}
 			channelToUse = &c
 			break
 		}
 		if channelToUse == nil {
-			return errors.Err("this wallet has channels but not a single one is ours! Expected claim_id: %s (%s)", s.DbChannelData.ChannelClaimID, s.DbChannelData.DesiredChannelName)
+			return errors.Err("this wallet has channels but not a single one is ours! Expected claim_id: %s (%s)", s.lbryChannelID, s.LbryChannelName)
 		}
-	} else if s.DbChannelData.TransferState == shared.TransferStateComplete {
+	} else if s.transferState == TransferStateComplete {
 		return errors.Err("the channel was transferred but appears to have been abandoned!")
-	} else if s.DbChannelData.ChannelClaimID != "" {
-		return errors.Err("the database has a channel recorded (%s) but nothing was found in our control", s.DbChannelData.ChannelClaimID)
+	} else if s.lbryChannelID != "" {
+		return errors.Err("the database has a channel recorded (%s) but nothing was found in our control", s.lbryChannelID)
 	}

 	channelUsesOldMetadata := false
 	if channelToUse != nil {
-		channelUsesOldMetadata = channelToUse.Value.GetThumbnail() == nil || (len(channelToUse.Value.GetLanguages()) == 0 && s.DbChannelData.Language != "")
+		channelUsesOldMetadata = channelToUse.Value.GetThumbnail() == nil
 		if !channelUsesOldMetadata {
 			return nil
 		}
 	}

+	channelBidAmount := channelClaimAmount
+
 	balanceResp, err := s.daemon.AccountBalance(nil)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@ -392,38 +380,42 @@ func (s *Sync) ensureChannelOwnership() error {
 		return errors.Err(err)
 	}

-	if balance.LessThan(decimal.NewFromFloat(channelClaimAmount)) {
-		err = s.addCredits(channelClaimAmount + estimatedMaxTxFee*3)
+	if balance.LessThan(decimal.NewFromFloat(channelBidAmount)) {
+		err = s.addCredits(channelBidAmount + 0.3)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 	}
-
-	channelInfo, err := ytapi.ChannelInfo(s.DbChannelData.ChannelId)
-	if err != nil {
-		if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "invalid character 'e' looking for beginning of value") {
-			logUtils.SendInfoToSlack("failed to get channel data for %s. Waiting 1 minute to retry", s.DbChannelData.ChannelId)
-			time.Sleep(1 * time.Minute)
-			channelInfo, err = ytapi.ChannelInfo(s.DbChannelData.ChannelId)
-			if err != nil {
-				return err
-			}
-		} else {
-			return err
-		}
+	client := &http.Client{
+		Transport: &transport.APIKey{Key: s.APIConfig.YoutubeAPIKey},
 	}

-	thumbnail := channelInfo.Header.C4TabbedHeaderRenderer.Avatar.Thumbnails[len(channelInfo.Header.C4TabbedHeaderRenderer.Avatar.Thumbnails)-1].URL
-	thumbnailURL, err := thumbs.MirrorThumbnail(thumbnail, s.DbChannelData.ChannelId)
+	service, err := youtube.New(client)
+	if err != nil {
+		return errors.Prefix("error creating YouTube service", err)
+	}
+
+	response, err := service.Channels.List("snippet,brandingSettings").Id(s.YoutubeChannelID).Do()
+	if err != nil {
+		return errors.Prefix("error getting channel details", err)
+	}
+
+	if len(response.Items) < 1 {
+		return errors.Err("youtube channel not found")
+	}
+
+	channelInfo := response.Items[0].Snippet
+	channelBranding := response.Items[0].BrandingSettings
+
+	thumbnail := thumbs.GetBestThumbnail(channelInfo.Thumbnails)
+	thumbnailURL, err := thumbs.MirrorThumbnail(thumbnail.Url, s.YoutubeChannelID, s.Manager.GetS3AWSConfig())
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}

 	var bannerURL *string
-	if channelInfo.Header.C4TabbedHeaderRenderer.Banner.Thumbnails != nil {
-		bURL, err := thumbs.MirrorThumbnail(channelInfo.Header.C4TabbedHeaderRenderer.Banner.Thumbnails[len(channelInfo.Header.C4TabbedHeaderRenderer.Banner.Thumbnails)-1].URL,
-			"banner-"+s.DbChannelData.ChannelId,
-		)
+	if channelBranding.Image != nil && channelBranding.Image.BannerImageUrl != "" {
+		bURL, err := thumbs.MirrorThumbnail(channelBranding.Image.BannerImageUrl, "banner-"+s.YoutubeChannelID, s.Manager.GetS3AWSConfig())
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
@ -431,90 +423,52 @@ func (s *Sync) ensureChannelOwnership() error {
 	}

 	var languages []string = nil
-	if s.DbChannelData.Language != "" {
-		languages = []string{s.DbChannelData.Language}
+	if channelInfo.DefaultLanguage != "" {
+		if channelInfo.DefaultLanguage == "iw" {
+			channelInfo.DefaultLanguage = "he"
+		}
+		languages = []string{channelInfo.DefaultLanguage}
 	}
-
 	var locations []jsonrpc.Location = nil
-	if channelInfo.Topbar.DesktopTopbarRenderer.CountryCode != "" {
-		locations = []jsonrpc.Location{{Country: &channelInfo.Topbar.DesktopTopbarRenderer.CountryCode}}
+	if channelInfo.Country != "" {
+		locations = []jsonrpc.Location{{Country: util.PtrToString(channelInfo.Country)}}
 	}
 	var c *jsonrpc.TransactionSummary
-	var recoveredChannelClaimID string
 	claimCreateOptions := jsonrpc.ClaimCreateOptions{
-		Title:        &channelInfo.Microformat.MicroformatDataRenderer.Title,
-		Description:  &channelInfo.Metadata.ChannelMetadataRenderer.Description,
-		Tags:         tags_manager.GetTagsForChannel(s.DbChannelData.ChannelId),
+		Title:        &channelInfo.Title,
+		Description:  &channelInfo.Description,
+		Tags:         tags_manager.GetTagsForChannel(s.YoutubeChannelID),
 		Languages:    languages,
 		Locations:    locations,
 		ThumbnailURL: &thumbnailURL,
 	}
 	if channelUsesOldMetadata {
-		da, err := s.getDefaultAccount()
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		if s.DbChannelData.TransferState <= 1 {
-			c, err = s.daemon.ChannelUpdate(s.DbChannelData.ChannelClaimID, jsonrpc.ChannelUpdateOptions{
+		if s.transferState <= 1 {
+			c, err = s.daemon.ChannelUpdate(s.lbryChannelID, jsonrpc.ChannelUpdateOptions{
 				ClearTags:      util.PtrToBool(true),
 				ClearLocations: util.PtrToBool(true),
 				ClearLanguages: util.PtrToBool(true),
 				ChannelCreateOptions: jsonrpc.ChannelCreateOptions{
-					AccountID: &da,
-					FundingAccountIDs: []string{
-						da,
-					},
 					ClaimCreateOptions: claimCreateOptions,
 					CoverURL:           bannerURL,
 				},
 			})
 		} else {
-			logUtils.SendInfoToSlack("%s (%s) has a channel with old metadata but isn't in our control anymore. Ignoring", s.DbChannelData.DesiredChannelName, s.DbChannelData.ChannelClaimID)
+			logUtils.SendInfoToSlack("%s (%s) has a channel with old metadata but isn't in our control anymore. Ignoring", s.LbryChannelName, s.lbryChannelID)
 			return nil
 		}
 	} else {
-		c, err = s.daemon.ChannelCreate(s.DbChannelData.DesiredChannelName, channelClaimAmount, jsonrpc.ChannelCreateOptions{
+		c, err = s.daemon.ChannelCreate(s.LbryChannelName, channelBidAmount, jsonrpc.ChannelCreateOptions{
 			ClaimCreateOptions: claimCreateOptions,
 			CoverURL:           bannerURL,
 		})
-		if err != nil {
-			claimId, err2 := s.getChannelClaimIDForTimedOutCreation()
-			if err2 != nil {
-				err = errors.Prefix(err2.Error(), err)
-			} else {
-				recoveredChannelClaimID = claimId
-			}
-		}
 	}
+
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	if recoveredChannelClaimID != "" {
-		s.DbChannelData.ChannelClaimID = recoveredChannelClaimID
-	} else {
-		s.DbChannelData.ChannelClaimID = c.Outputs[0].ClaimID
-	}
-	return s.Manager.ApiConfig.SetChannelClaimID(s.DbChannelData.ChannelId, s.DbChannelData.ChannelClaimID)
-}
-
-//getChannelClaimIDForTimedOutCreation is a raw function that returns the only channel that exists in the wallet
-// this is used because the SDK sucks and can't figure out when to return when creating a claim...
-func (s *Sync) getChannelClaimIDForTimedOutCreation() (string, error) {
-	channels, err := s.daemon.ChannelList(nil, 1, 500, nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	} else if channels == nil {
-		return "", errors.Err("no channel response")
-	}
-	if len((*channels).Items) != 1 {
-		return "", errors.Err("more than one channel found when trying to recover from SDK failure in creating the channel")
-	}
-	desiredChannel := (*channels).Items[0]
-	if desiredChannel.Name != s.DbChannelData.DesiredChannelName {
-		return "", errors.Err("the channel found in the wallet has a different name than the one we expected")
-	}
-
-	return desiredChannel.ClaimID, nil
+	s.lbryChannelID = c.Outputs[0].ClaimID
+	return s.Manager.apiConfig.SetChannelClaimID(s.YoutubeChannelID, s.lbryChannelID)
 }

 func (s *Sync) addCredits(amountToAdd float64) error {
@ -523,7 +477,7 @@ func (s *Sync) addCredits(amountToAdd float64) error {
 		timing.TimedComponent("addCredits").Add(time.Since(start))
 	}(start)
 	log.Printf("Adding %f credits", amountToAdd)
-	lbrycrdd, err := logUtils.GetLbrycrdClient(s.Manager.LbrycrdDsn)
+	lbrycrdd, err := logUtils.GetLbrycrdClient(s.LbrycrdString)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
--- a/manager/transfer.go
+++ b/manager/transfer.go
@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/jsonrpc"
 	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/stop"
 	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/util"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/shared"
+	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/sdk"
 	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/timing"

 	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
@ -71,10 +71,7 @@ func abandonSupports(s *Sync) (float64, error) {
 	for page := uint64(1); page <= totalPages; page++ {
 		supports, err := s.daemon.SupportList(&defaultAccount, page, 50)
 		if err != nil {
-			supports, err = s.daemon.SupportList(&defaultAccount, page, 50)
-			if err != nil {
-				return 0, errors.Prefix("cannot list supports", err)
-			}
+			return 0, errors.Prefix("cannot list claims", err)
 		}
 		allSupports = append(allSupports, (*supports).Items...)
 		totalPages = (*supports).TotalPages
@ -100,7 +97,7 @@ func abandonSupports(s *Sync) (float64, error) {
 	//TODO: remove this once the SDK team fixes their RPC bugs....
 	s.daemon.SetRPCTimeout(60 * time.Second)
 	defer s.daemon.SetRPCTimeout(5 * time.Minute)
-	for i := 0; i < s.Manager.CliFlags.ConcurrentJobs; i++ {
+	for i := 0; i < s.ConcurrentVideos; i++ {
 		consumerWG.Add(1)
 		go func() {
 			defer consumerWG.Done()
@ -192,7 +189,7 @@ func abandonSupports(s *Sync) (float64, error) {
 type updateInfo struct {
 	ClaimID             string
 	streamUpdateOptions *jsonrpc.StreamUpdateOptions
-	videoStatus         *shared.VideoStatus
+	videoStatus         *sdk.VideoStatus
 }

 func transferVideos(s *Sync) error {
@ -202,7 +199,7 @@ func transferVideos(s *Sync) error {
 	}(start)
 	cleanTransfer := true

-	streamChan := make(chan updateInfo, s.Manager.CliFlags.ConcurrentJobs)
+	streamChan := make(chan updateInfo, s.ConcurrentVideos)
 	account, err := s.getDefaultAccount()
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@ -216,13 +213,13 @@ func transferVideos(s *Sync) error {
 	go func() {
 		defer producerWG.Done()
 		for _, video := range s.syncedVideos {
-			if !video.Published || video.Transferred || video.MetadataVersion != shared.LatestMetadataVersion {
+			if !video.Published || video.Transferred || video.MetadataVersion != LatestMetadataVersion {
 				continue
 			}

 			var stream *jsonrpc.Claim = nil
 			for _, c := range streams.Items {
-				if c.ClaimID != video.ClaimID || (c.SigningChannel != nil && c.SigningChannel.ClaimID != s.DbChannelData.ChannelClaimID) {
+				if c.ClaimID != video.ClaimID || (c.SigningChannel != nil && c.SigningChannel.ClaimID != s.lbryChannelID) {
 					continue
 				}
 				stream = &c
@ -235,20 +232,20 @@ func transferVideos(s *Sync) error {
 			streamUpdateOptions := jsonrpc.StreamUpdateOptions{
 				StreamCreateOptions: &jsonrpc.StreamCreateOptions{
 					ClaimCreateOptions: jsonrpc.ClaimCreateOptions{
-						ClaimAddress: &s.DbChannelData.PublishAddress.Address,
+						ClaimAddress: &s.clientPublishAddress,
 						FundingAccountIDs: []string{
 							account,
 						},
 					},
 				},
-				Bid: util.PtrToString(fmt.Sprintf("%.5f", publishAmount/2.)),
+				Bid: util.PtrToString("0.005"), // Todo - Dont hardcode
 			}
-			videoStatus := shared.VideoStatus{
-				ChannelID:     s.DbChannelData.ChannelId,
+			videoStatus := sdk.VideoStatus{
+				ChannelID:     s.YoutubeChannelID,
 				VideoID:       video.VideoID,
 				ClaimID:       video.ClaimID,
 				ClaimName:     video.ClaimName,
-				Status:        shared.VideoStatusPublished,
+				Status:        VideoStatusPublished,
 				IsTransferred: util.PtrToBool(true),
 			}
 			streamChan <- updateInfo{
@ -260,7 +257,7 @@ func transferVideos(s *Sync) error {
 	}()

 	consumerWG := &stop.Group{}
-	for i := 0; i < s.Manager.CliFlags.ConcurrentJobs; i++ {
+	for i := 0; i < s.ConcurrentVideos; i++ {
 		consumerWG.Add(1)
 		go func(worker int) {
 			defer consumerWG.Done()
@ -293,13 +290,13 @@ func (s *Sync) streamUpdate(ui *updateInfo) error {
 	timing.TimedComponent("transferStreamUpdate").Add(time.Since(start))
 	if updateError != nil {
 		ui.videoStatus.FailureReason = updateError.Error()
-		ui.videoStatus.Status = shared.VideoStatusTransferFailed
+		ui.videoStatus.Status = VideoStatusTranferFailed
 		ui.videoStatus.IsTransferred = util.PtrToBool(false)
 	} else {
 		ui.videoStatus.IsTransferred = util.PtrToBool(len(result.Outputs) != 0)
 	}
 	log.Infof("TRANSFERRED %t", *ui.videoStatus.IsTransferred)
-	statusErr := s.Manager.ApiConfig.MarkVideoStatus(*ui.videoStatus)
+	statusErr := s.APIConfig.MarkVideoStatus(*ui.videoStatus)
 	if statusErr != nil {
 		return errors.Prefix(statusErr.Error(), updateError)
 	}
@ -321,7 +318,7 @@ func transferChannel(s *Sync) error {
 	}
 	var channelClaim *jsonrpc.Transaction = nil
 	for _, c := range channelClaims.Items {
-		if c.ClaimID != s.DbChannelData.ChannelClaimID {
+		if c.ClaimID != s.lbryChannelID {
 			continue
 		}
 		channelClaim = &c
@ -335,11 +332,11 @@ func transferChannel(s *Sync) error {
 		Bid: util.PtrToString(fmt.Sprintf("%.6f", channelClaimAmount-0.005)),
 		ChannelCreateOptions: jsonrpc.ChannelCreateOptions{
 			ClaimCreateOptions: jsonrpc.ClaimCreateOptions{
-				ClaimAddress: &s.DbChannelData.PublishAddress.Address,
+				ClaimAddress: &s.clientPublishAddress,
 			},
 		},
 	}
-	result, err := s.daemon.ChannelUpdate(s.DbChannelData.ChannelClaimID, updateOptions)
+	result, err := s.daemon.ChannelUpdate(s.lbryChannelID, updateOptions)
 	if err != nil {
 		return errors.Err(err)
 	}
--- a/manager/ytsync.go
+++ b/manager/ytsync.go
--- a/metrics/metrics.go
+++ b/metrics/metrics.go
@ -1,17 +1,31 @@
 package metrics

 import (
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/configs"
+	"os"
+	"regexp"

 	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
 	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/promauto"
+	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
 )

 var (
 	Durations = promauto.NewHistogramVec(prometheus.HistogramOpts{
 		Namespace: "ytsync",
-		Subsystem: configs.Configuration.GetHostname(),
+		Subsystem: getHostname(),
 		Name:      "duration",
 		Help:      "The durations of the individual modules",
 	}, []string{"path"})
 )
+
+func getHostname() string {
+	hostname, err := os.Hostname()
+	if err != nil {
+		hostname = "ytsync_unknown"
+	}
+	reg, err := regexp.Compile("[^a-zA-Z0-9_]+")
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return reg.ReplaceAllString(hostname, "_")
+}
--- a/namer/names.go
+++ b/namer/names.go
@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"sync"
 )

-var claimNameRegexp = regexp.MustCompile(`[=&#:$@%？?;、\\"/<>%{}|｜^~\x60[\]\s]`)
+var titleRegexp = regexp.MustCompile(`[^a-zA-Z0-9]+`)

 type Namer struct {
 	mu    *sync.Mutex
@ -68,21 +68,18 @@ func getClaimNameFromTitle(title string, attempt int) string {
 	}
 	maxLen := 40 - len(suffix)

-	chunks := strings.Split(strings.ToLower(strings.Trim(claimNameRegexp.ReplaceAllString(title, "-"), "-")), "-")
+	chunks := strings.Split(strings.ToLower(strings.Trim(titleRegexp.ReplaceAllString(title, "-"), "-")), "-")

 	name := chunks[0]
 	if len(name) > maxLen {
-		return truncateUnicode(name, maxLen) + suffix
+		return name[:maxLen]
 	}

 	for _, chunk := range chunks[1:] {
-		if chunk == "" {
-			continue
-		}
 		tmpName := name + "-" + chunk
 		if len(tmpName) > maxLen {
 			if len(name) < 20 {
-				name = truncateUnicode(tmpName, maxLen-len(name))
+				name = tmpName[:maxLen]
 			}
 			break
 		}
@ -91,18 +88,3 @@ func getClaimNameFromTitle(title string, attempt int) string {

 	return name + suffix
 }
-
-func truncateUnicode(name string, limit int) string {
-	reNameBlacklist := regexp.MustCompile(`(&|>|<|\/|:|\n|\r)*`)
-	name = reNameBlacklist.ReplaceAllString(name, "")
-	result := name
-	chars := 0
-	for i := range name {
-		if chars >= limit {
-			result = name[:i]
-			break
-		}
-		chars++
-	}
-	return result
-}
--- a/namer/names_test.go
+++ b/namer/names_test.go
@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-package namer
-
-import (
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
-)
-
-func Test_getClaimNameFromTitle(t *testing.T) {
-	name := getClaimNameFromTitle("СтопХам - \"В ожидании ответа\"", 0)
-	assert.Equal(t, "стопхам-в-ожидании", name)
-	name = getClaimNameFromTitle("SADB - \"A Weak Woman With a Strong Hood\"", 0)
-	assert.Equal(t, "sadb-a-weak-woman-with-a-strong-hood", name)
-	name = getClaimNameFromTitle("錢包整理術 5 Tips、哪種錢包最NG？｜有錢人默默在做的「錢包整理術」 ft.@SHIN LI", 0)
-	assert.Equal(t, "錢包整理術-5-tips-哪種錢包最ng", name)
-	name = getClaimNameFromTitle("اسرع-طريقة-لتختيم", 0)
-	assert.Equal(t, "اسرع-طريقة-لتختيم", name)
-	name = getClaimNameFromTitle("شكرا على 380 مشترك😍😍😍😍 لي يريد دعم ادا وصلنا المقطع 40 لايك وراح ادعم قناتين", 0)
-	assert.Equal(t, "شكرا-على-380-مشترك😍😍😍", name)
-	name = getClaimNameFromTitle("test-@", 0)
-	assert.Equal(t, "test", name)
-	name = getClaimNameFromTitle("『あなたはただの空の殻でした』", 0)
-	assert.Equal(t, "『あなたはただの空の殻でした』", name)
-	name = getClaimNameFromTitle("精靈樂章-這樣的夥伴沒問題嗎 幽暗隕石坑（夢魘） 王有無敵狀態...要會閃不然會被秒（無課）", 2)
-	assert.Equal(t, "精靈樂章-這樣的夥伴沒問題嗎-2", name)
-	name = getClaimNameFromTitle("aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa", 50)
-	assert.Equal(t, "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-50", name)
-}
--- a/sdk/api.go
+++ b/sdk/api.go
@ -13,8 +13,6 @@ import (

 	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/errors"
 	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/null"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/configs"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/shared"

 	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/util"

@ -26,44 +24,65 @@ const (
 )

 type APIConfig struct {
-	ApiURL   string
-	ApiToken string
-	HostName string
+	YoutubeAPIKey string
+	ApiURL        string
+	ApiToken      string
+	HostName      string
 }

-var instance *APIConfig
-
-func GetAPIsConfigs() *APIConfig {
-	if instance == nil {
-		instance = &APIConfig{
-			ApiURL:   configs.Configuration.InternalApisEndpoint,
-			ApiToken: configs.Configuration.InternalApisAuthToken,
-			HostName: configs.Configuration.GetHostname(),
-		}
-	}
-	return instance
+type SyncProperties struct {
+	SyncFrom         int64
+	SyncUntil        int64
+	YoutubeChannelID string
 }

-func (a *APIConfig) FetchChannels(status string, cliFlags *shared.SyncFlags) ([]shared.YoutubeChannel, error) {
+type SyncFlags struct {
+	StopOnError             bool
+	TakeOverExistingChannel bool
+	SkipSpaceCheck          bool
+	SyncUpdate              bool
+	SingleRun               bool
+	RemoveDBUnpublished     bool
+	UpgradeMetadata         bool
+	DisableTransfers        bool
+	QuickSync               bool
+}
+
+type Fee struct {
+	Amount   string `json:"amount"`
+	Address  string `json:"address"`
+	Currency string `json:"currency"`
+}
+type YoutubeChannel struct {
+	ChannelId          string `json:"channel_id"`
+	TotalVideos        uint   `json:"total_videos"`
+	TotalSubscribers   uint   `json:"total_subscribers"`
+	DesiredChannelName string `json:"desired_channel_name"`
+	Fee                *Fee   `json:"fee"`
+	ChannelClaimID     string `json:"channel_claim_id"`
+	TransferState      int    `json:"transfer_state"`
+	PublishAddress     string `json:"publish_address"`
+	PublicKey          string `json:"public_key"`
+}
+
+func (a *APIConfig) FetchChannels(status string, cp *SyncProperties) ([]YoutubeChannel, error) {
 	type apiJobsResponse struct {
-		Success bool                    `json:"success"`
-		Error   null.String             `json:"error"`
-		Data    []shared.YoutubeChannel `json:"data"`
+		Success bool             `json:"success"`
+		Error   null.String      `json:"error"`
+		Data    []YoutubeChannel `json:"data"`
 	}
 	endpoint := a.ApiURL + "/yt/jobs"
 	res, err := http.PostForm(endpoint, url.Values{
 		"auth_token":  {a.ApiToken},
 		"sync_status": {status},
 		"min_videos":  {strconv.Itoa(1)},
-		"after":       {strconv.Itoa(int(cliFlags.SyncFrom))},
-		"before":      {strconv.Itoa(int(cliFlags.SyncUntil))},
+		"after":       {strconv.Itoa(int(cp.SyncFrom))},
+		"before":      {strconv.Itoa(int(cp.SyncUntil))},
 		"sync_server": {a.HostName},
-		"channel_id":  {cliFlags.ChannelID},
+		"channel_id":  {cp.YoutubeChannelID},
 	})
 	if err != nil {
-		util.SendErrorToSlack("error while trying to call %s. Waiting to retry: %s", endpoint, err.Error())
-		time.Sleep(30 * time.Second)
-		return a.FetchChannels(status, cliFlags)
+		return nil, errors.Err(err)
 	}
 	defer res.Body.Close()
 	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
@ -71,7 +90,7 @@ func (a *APIConfig) FetchChannels(status string, cliFlags *shared.SyncFlags) ([]
 		util.SendErrorToSlack("Error %d while trying to call %s. Waiting to retry", res.StatusCode, endpoint)
 		log.Debugln(string(body))
 		time.Sleep(30 * time.Second)
-		return a.FetchChannels(status, cliFlags)
+		return a.FetchChannels(status, cp)
 	}
 	var response apiJobsResponse
 	err = json.Unmarshal(body, &response)
@ -94,7 +113,6 @@ type SyncedVideo struct {
 	Size            int64  `json:"size"`
 	MetadataVersion int8   `json:"metadata_version"`
 	Transferred     bool   `json:"transferred"`
-	IsLbryFirst     bool   `json:"is_lbry_first"`
 }

 func sanitizeFailureReason(s *string) {
@ -107,6 +125,7 @@ func sanitizeFailureReason(s *string) {
 }

 func (a *APIConfig) SetChannelCert(certHex string, channelID string) error {
+
 	type apiSetChannelCertResponse struct {
 		Success bool        `json:"success"`
 		Error   null.String `json:"error"`
@ -121,9 +140,7 @@ func (a *APIConfig) SetChannelCert(certHex string, channelID string) error {
 		"auth_token":       {a.ApiToken},
 	})
 	if err != nil {
-		util.SendErrorToSlack("error while trying to call %s. Waiting to retry: %s", endpoint, err.Error())
-		time.Sleep(30 * time.Second)
-		return a.SetChannelCert(certHex, channelID)
+		return errors.Err(err)
 	}
 	defer res.Body.Close()
 	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
@ -166,9 +183,7 @@ func (a *APIConfig) SetChannelStatus(channelID string, status string, failureRea
 	}
 	res, err := http.PostForm(endpoint, params)
 	if err != nil {
-		util.SendErrorToSlack("error while trying to call %s. Waiting to retry: %s", endpoint, err.Error())
-		time.Sleep(30 * time.Second)
-		return a.SetChannelStatus(channelID, status, failureReason, transferState)
+		return nil, nil, errors.Err(err)
 	}
 	defer res.Body.Close()
 	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
@ -213,9 +228,7 @@ func (a *APIConfig) SetChannelClaimID(channelID string, channelClaimID string) e
 		"channel_claim_id": {channelClaimID},
 	})
 	if err != nil {
-		util.SendErrorToSlack("error while trying to call %s. Waiting to retry: %s", endpoint, err.Error())
-		time.Sleep(30 * time.Second)
-		return a.SetChannelClaimID(channelID, channelClaimID)
+		return errors.Err(err)
 	}
 	defer res.Body.Close()
 	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
@ -254,9 +267,7 @@ func (a *APIConfig) DeleteVideos(videos []string) error {
 	}
 	res, err := http.PostForm(endpoint, vals)
 	if err != nil {
-		util.SendErrorToSlack("error while trying to call %s. Waiting to retry: %s", endpoint, err.Error())
-		time.Sleep(30 * time.Second)
-		return a.DeleteVideos(videos)
+		return errors.Err(err)
 	}
 	defer res.Body.Close()
 	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
@ -285,7 +296,19 @@ func (a *APIConfig) DeleteVideos(videos []string) error {
 	return errors.Err("invalid API response. Status code: %d", res.StatusCode)
 }

-func (a *APIConfig) MarkVideoStatus(status shared.VideoStatus) error {
+type VideoStatus struct {
+	ChannelID       string
+	VideoID         string
+	Status          string
+	ClaimID         string
+	ClaimName       string
+	FailureReason   string
+	Size            *int64
+	MetaDataVersion uint
+	IsTransferred   *bool
+}
+
+func (a *APIConfig) MarkVideoStatus(status VideoStatus) error {
 	endpoint := a.ApiURL + "/yt/video_status"

 	sanitizeFailureReason(&status.FailureReason)
@ -317,9 +340,7 @@ func (a *APIConfig) MarkVideoStatus(status shared.VideoStatus) error {
 	}
 	res, err := http.PostForm(endpoint, vals)
 	if err != nil {
-		util.SendErrorToSlack("error while trying to call %s. Waiting to retry: %s", endpoint, err.Error())
-		time.Sleep(30 * time.Second)
-		return a.MarkVideoStatus(status)
+		return errors.Err(err)
 	}
 	defer res.Body.Close()
 	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
@ -346,96 +367,3 @@ func (a *APIConfig) MarkVideoStatus(status shared.VideoStatus) error {
 	}
 	return errors.Err("invalid API response. Status code: %d", res.StatusCode)
 }
-
-func (a *APIConfig) VideoState(videoID string) (string, error) {
-	endpoint := a.ApiURL + "/yt/video_state"
-	vals := url.Values{
-		"video_id":   {videoID},
-		"auth_token": {a.ApiToken},
-	}
-
-	res, err := http.PostForm(endpoint, vals)
-	if err != nil {
-		util.SendErrorToSlack("error while trying to call %s. Waiting to retry: %s", endpoint, err.Error())
-		time.Sleep(30 * time.Second)
-		return a.VideoState(videoID)
-	}
-	defer res.Body.Close()
-	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
-	if res.StatusCode == http.StatusNotFound {
-		return "not_found", nil
-	}
-	if res.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
-		util.SendErrorToSlack("Error %d while trying to call %s. Waiting to retry", res.StatusCode, endpoint)
-		log.Debugln(string(body))
-		time.Sleep(30 * time.Second)
-		return a.VideoState(videoID)
-	}
-	var response struct {
-		Success bool        `json:"success"`
-		Error   null.String `json:"error"`
-		Data    null.String `json:"data"`
-	}
-	err = json.Unmarshal(body, &response)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	if !response.Error.IsNull() {
-		return "", errors.Err(response.Error.String)
-	}
-	if !response.Data.IsNull() {
-		return response.Data.String, nil
-	}
-	return "", errors.Err("invalid API response. Status code: %d", res.StatusCode)
-}
-
-type VideoRelease struct {
-	ID            uint64 `json:"id"`
-	YoutubeDataID uint64 `json:"youtube_data_id"`
-	VideoID       string `json:"video_id"`
-	ReleaseTime   string `json:"release_time"`
-	CreatedAt     string `json:"created_at"`
-	UpdatedAt     string `json:"updated_at"`
-}
-
-func (a *APIConfig) GetReleasedDate(videoID string) (*VideoRelease, error) {
-	endpoint := a.ApiURL + "/yt/released"
-	vals := url.Values{
-		"video_id":   {videoID},
-		"auth_token": {a.ApiToken},
-	}
-
-	res, err := http.PostForm(endpoint, vals)
-	if err != nil {
-		util.SendErrorToSlack("error while trying to call %s. Waiting to retry: %s", endpoint, err.Error())
-		time.Sleep(30 * time.Second)
-		return a.GetReleasedDate(videoID)
-	}
-	defer res.Body.Close()
-	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
-	if res.StatusCode == http.StatusNotFound {
-		return nil, nil
-	}
-	if res.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
-		util.SendErrorToSlack("Error %d while trying to call %s. Waiting to retry", res.StatusCode, endpoint)
-		log.Debugln(string(body))
-		time.Sleep(30 * time.Second)
-		return a.GetReleasedDate(videoID)
-	}
-	var response struct {
-		Success bool         `json:"success"`
-		Error   null.String  `json:"error"`
-		Data    VideoRelease `json:"data"`
-	}
-	err = json.Unmarshal(body, &response)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	if !response.Error.IsNull() {
-		return nil, errors.Err(response.Error.String)
-	}
-	if response.Data.ReleaseTime != "" {
-		return &response.Data, nil
-	}
-	return nil, errors.Err("invalid API response. Status code: %d", res.StatusCode)
-}
--- a/shared/shared.go
+++ b/shared/shared.go
@ -1,221 +0,0 @@
-package shared
-
-import (
-	"encoding/json"
-	"time"
-
-	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/errors"
-)
-
-type Fee struct {
-	Amount   string `json:"amount"`
-	Address  string `json:"address"`
-	Currency string `json:"currency"`
-}
-type YoutubeChannel struct {
-	ChannelId          string         `json:"channel_id"`
-	TotalVideos        uint           `json:"total_videos"`
-	TotalSubscribers   uint           `json:"total_subscribers"`
-	DesiredChannelName string         `json:"desired_channel_name"`
-	Fee                *Fee           `json:"fee"`
-	ChannelClaimID     string         `json:"channel_claim_id"`
-	TransferState      int            `json:"transfer_state"`
-	PublishAddress     PublishAddress `json:"publish_address"`
-	PublicKey          string         `json:"public_key"`
-	LengthLimit        int            `json:"length_limit"`
-	SizeLimit          int            `json:"size_limit"`
-	LastUploadedVideo  string         `json:"last_uploaded_video"`
-	WipeDB             bool           `json:"wipe_db"`
-	Language           string         `json:"language"`
-}
-
-type PublishAddress struct {
-	Address string `json:"address"`
-	IsMine  bool   `json:"is_mine"`
-}
-
-func (p *PublishAddress) UnmarshalJSON(data []byte) error {
-	var s string
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &s); err != nil {
-		return errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	p.Address = s
-	p.IsMine = false
-	return nil
-}
-
-var FatalErrors = []string{
-	":5279: read: connection reset by peer",
-	"no space left on device",
-	"NotEnoughFunds",
-	"Cannot publish using channel",
-	"cannot concatenate 'str' and 'NoneType' objects",
-	"more than 90% of the space has been used.",
-	"Couldn't find private key for id",
-	"You already have a stream claim published under the name",
-	"Missing inputs",
-}
-var ErrorsNoRetry = []string{
-	"Requested format is not available",
-	"non 200 status code received",
-	"This video contains content from",
-	"dont know which claim to update",
-	"uploader has not made this video available in your country",
-	"download error: AccessDenied: Access Denied",
-	"Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner",
-	"Error in daemon: Cannot publish empty file",
-	"Error extracting sts from embedded url response",
-	"Unable to extract signature tokens",
-	"Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers",
-	"the video is too big to sync, skipping for now",
-	"video is too long to process",
-	"video is too short to process",
-	"no compatible format available for this video",
-	"Watch this video on YouTube.",
-	"have blocked it on copyright grounds",
-	"the video must be republished as we can't get the right size",
-	"HTTP Error 403",
-	"giving up after 0 fragment retries",
-	"Sorry about that",
-	"This video is not available",
-	"Video unavailable",
-	"requested format not available",
-	"interrupted by user",
-	"Sign in to confirm your age",
-	"This video is unavailable",
-	"video is a live stream and hasn't completed yet",
-	"Premieres in",
-	"Private video",
-	"This live event will begin in",
-	"This video has been removed by the uploader",
-	"Premiere will begin shortly",
-	"cannot unmarshal number 0.0",
-	"default youtube thumbnail found",
-	"livestream is likely bugged",
-}
-var WalletErrors = []string{
-	"Not enough funds to cover this transaction",
-	"failed: Not enough funds",
-	"Error in daemon: Insufficient funds, please deposit additional LBC",
-	//"Missing inputs",
-}
-var BlockchainErrors = []string{
-	"txn-mempool-conflict",
-	"too-long-mempool-chain",
-}
-var NeverRetryFailures = []string{
-	"Error extracting sts from embedded url response",
-	"Unable to extract signature tokens",
-	"the video is too big to sync, skipping for now",
-	"video is too long to process",
-	"video is too short to process",
-	"This video contains content from",
-	"no compatible format available for this video",
-	"Watch this video on YouTube.",
-	"have blocked it on copyright grounds",
-	"giving up after 0 fragment retries",
-	"Sign in to confirm your age",
-	"Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner",
-	"uploader has not made this video available in your country",
-	"This video has been removed by the uploader",
-	"Video unavailable",
-	"Video is not available - hardcoded fix",
-}
-
-type SyncFlags struct {
-	TakeOverExistingChannel bool
-	SkipSpaceCheck          bool
-	SyncUpdate              bool
-	SingleRun               bool
-	RemoveDBUnpublished     bool
-	UpgradeMetadata         bool
-	DisableTransfers        bool
-	QuickSync               bool
-	MaxTries                int
-	Refill                  int
-	Limit                   int
-	Status                  string
-	SecondaryStatus         string
-	ChannelID               string
-	SyncFrom                int64
-	SyncUntil               int64
-	ConcurrentJobs          int
-	VideosLimit             int
-	MaxVideoSize            int
-	MaxVideoLength          time.Duration
-}
-
-// VideosToSync dynamically figures out how many videos should be synced for a given subs count if nothing was otherwise specified
-func (f *SyncFlags) VideosToSync(totalSubscribers uint) int {
-	if f.VideosLimit > 0 {
-		return f.VideosLimit
-	}
-	defaultVideosToSync := map[int]int{
-		10000: 1000,
-		5000:  500,
-		1000:  400,
-		800:   250,
-		600:   200,
-		200:   80,
-		100:   20,
-		1:     10,
-	}
-	videosToSync := 0
-	for s, r := range defaultVideosToSync {
-		if int(totalSubscribers) >= s && r > videosToSync {
-			videosToSync = r
-		}
-	}
-	return videosToSync
-}
-
-func (f *SyncFlags) IsSingleChannelSync() bool {
-	return f.ChannelID != ""
-}
-
-type VideoStatus struct {
-	ChannelID       string
-	VideoID         string
-	Status          string
-	ClaimID         string
-	ClaimName       string
-	FailureReason   string
-	Size            *int64
-	MetaDataVersion uint
-	IsTransferred   *bool
-}
-
-const (
-	StatusPending        = "pending"        // waiting for permission to sync
-	StatusPendingEmail   = "pendingemail"   // permission granted but missing email
-	StatusQueued         = "queued"         // in sync queue. will be synced soon
-	StatusPendingUpgrade = "pendingupgrade" // in sync queue. will be synced soon
-	StatusSyncing        = "syncing"        // syncing now
-	StatusSynced         = "synced"         // done
-	StatusWipeDb         = "pendingdbwipe"  // in sync queue. lbryum database will be pruned
-	StatusFailed         = "failed"
-	StatusFinalized      = "finalized"     // no more changes allowed
-	StatusAbandoned      = "abandoned"     // deleted on youtube or banned
-	StatusAgeRestricted  = "agerestricted" // one or more videos are age restricted and should be reprocessed with special keys
-)
-
-var SyncStatuses = []string{StatusPending, StatusPendingEmail, StatusPendingUpgrade, StatusQueued, StatusSyncing, StatusSynced, StatusFailed, StatusFinalized, StatusAbandoned, StatusWipeDb, StatusAgeRestricted}
-
-const LatestMetadataVersion = 2
-
-const (
-	VideoStatusPublished      = "published"
-	VideoStatusFailed         = "failed"
-	VideoStatusUpgradeFailed  = "upgradefailed"
-	VideoStatusUnpublished    = "unpublished"
-	VideoStatusTransferFailed = "transferfailed"
-)
-
-var VideoSyncStatuses = []string{VideoStatusPublished, VideoStatusFailed, VideoStatusUpgradeFailed, VideoStatusUnpublished, VideoStatusTransferFailed}
-
-const (
-	TransferStateNotTouched = iota
-	TransferStatePending
-	TransferStateComplete
-	TransferStateManual
-)
--- a/shared/shared_test.go
+++ b/shared/shared_test.go
@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-package shared
-
-import (
-	"testing"
-
-	"gotest.tools/assert"
-)
-
-func TestSyncFlags_VideosToSync(t *testing.T) {
-	f := SyncFlags{}
-	assert.Equal(t, f.VideosToSync(0), 0)
-	assert.Equal(t, f.VideosToSync(1), 10)
-	assert.Equal(t, f.VideosToSync(5), 10)
-	assert.Equal(t, f.VideosToSync(10), 10)
-	assert.Equal(t, f.VideosToSync(101), 50)
-	assert.Equal(t, f.VideosToSync(500), 80)
-	assert.Equal(t, f.VideosToSync(21000), 1000)
-	f.VideosLimit = 1337
-	assert.Equal(t, f.VideosToSync(21), 1337)
-}
--- a/sources/youtubeVideo.go
+++ b/sources/youtubeVideo.go
@ -1,43 +1,36 @@
 package sources

 import (
-	"context"
-	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
+	"math"
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
-	"path"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"regexp"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
-	"syscall"
 	"time"

-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/downloader"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/downloader/ytdl"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/ip_manager"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/namer"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/sdk"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/shared"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/tags_manager"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/thumbs"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/timing"
-	logUtils "github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/util"
-
 	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/errors"
 	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/jsonrpc"
 	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/stop"
 	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/util"
+	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/timing"
+	logUtils "github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/util"

-	"github.com/abadojack/whatlanggo"
+	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/ip_manager"
+	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/namer"
+	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/sdk"
+	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/tags_manager"
+	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/thumbs"
+
+	duration "github.com/ChannelMeter/iso8601duration"
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
 	"github.com/shopspring/decimal"
 	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
-	"github.com/vbauerster/mpb/v7"
-	"github.com/vbauerster/mpb/v7/decor"
-	"gopkg.in/vansante/go-ffprobe.v2"
+	"google.golang.org/api/youtube/v3"
 )

 type YoutubeVideo struct {
@ -47,20 +40,19 @@ type YoutubeVideo struct {
 	playlistPosition int64
 	size             *int64
 	maxVideoSize     int64
-	maxVideoLength   time.Duration
+	maxVideoLength   float64
 	publishedAt      time.Time
 	dir              string
-	youtubeInfo      *ytdl.YtdlVideo
+	youtubeInfo      *youtube.Video
 	youtubeChannelID string
 	tags             []string
+	awsConfig        aws.Config
 	thumbnailURL     string
 	lbryChannelID    string
 	mocked           bool
 	walletLock       *sync.RWMutex
 	stopGroup        *stop.Group
 	pool             *ip_manager.IPPool
-	progressBars     *mpb.Progress
-	progressBarWg    *sync.WaitGroup
 }

 var youtubeCategories = map[string]string{
@ -98,29 +90,29 @@ var youtubeCategories = map[string]string{
 	"44": "trailers",
 }

-func NewYoutubeVideo(directory string, videoData *ytdl.YtdlVideo, playlistPosition int64, stopGroup *stop.Group, pool *ip_manager.IPPool) (*YoutubeVideo, error) {
-	// youtube-dl returns times in local timezone sometimes. this could break in the future
-	// maybe we can file a PR to choose the timezone we want from youtube-dl
+func NewYoutubeVideo(directory string, videoData *youtube.Video, playlistPosition int64, awsConfig aws.Config, stopGroup *stop.Group, pool *ip_manager.IPPool) *YoutubeVideo {
+	publishedAt, _ := time.Parse(time.RFC3339Nano, videoData.Snippet.PublishedAt) // ignore parse errors
 	return &YoutubeVideo{
-		id:               videoData.ID,
-		title:            videoData.Title,
-		description:      videoData.Description,
+		id:               videoData.Id,
+		title:            videoData.Snippet.Title,
+		description:      videoData.Snippet.Description,
 		playlistPosition: playlistPosition,
-		publishedAt:      videoData.GetUploadTime(),
+		publishedAt:      publishedAt,
 		dir:              directory,
 		youtubeInfo:      videoData,
+		awsConfig:        awsConfig,
 		mocked:           false,
-		youtubeChannelID: videoData.ChannelID,
+		youtubeChannelID: videoData.Snippet.ChannelId,
 		stopGroup:        stopGroup,
 		pool:             pool,
-	}, nil
+	}
 }
-
-func NewMockedVideo(directory string, videoID string, youtubeChannelID string, stopGroup *stop.Group, pool *ip_manager.IPPool) *YoutubeVideo {
+func NewMockedVideo(directory string, videoID string, youtubeChannelID string, awsConfig aws.Config, stopGroup *stop.Group, pool *ip_manager.IPPool) *YoutubeVideo {
 	return &YoutubeVideo{
 		id:               videoID,
 		playlistPosition: 0,
 		dir:              directory,
+		awsConfig:        awsConfig,
 		mocked:           true,
 		youtubeChannelID: youtubeChannelID,
 		stopGroup:        stopGroup,
@ -175,7 +167,7 @@ func (v *YoutubeVideo) getFullPath() string {
 }

 func (v *YoutubeVideo) getAbbrevDescription() string {
-	maxLength := 6500
+	maxLength := 2800
 	description := strings.TrimSpace(v.description)
 	additionalDescription := "\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" + v.id
 	khanAcademyClaimID := "5fc52291980268b82413ca4c0ace1b8d749f3ffb"
@ -187,32 +179,15 @@ func (v *YoutubeVideo) getAbbrevDescription() string {
 	}
 	return description + "\n..." + additionalDescription
 }
-func checkCookiesIntegrity() error {
-	fi, err := os.Stat("cookies.txt")
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	if fi.Size() == 0 {
-		log.Errorf("cookies were cleared out. Attempting a restore from cookies-backup.txt")
-		input, err := ioutil.ReadFile("cookies-backup.txt")
-		if err != nil {
-			return errors.Err(err)
-		}
-
-		err = ioutil.WriteFile("cookies.txt", input, 0644)
-		if err != nil {
-			return errors.Err(err)
-		}
-	}
-	return nil
-}

 func (v *YoutubeVideo) download() error {
 	start := time.Now()
 	defer func(start time.Time) {
 		timing.TimedComponent("download").Add(time.Since(start))
 	}(start)
-
+	if v.youtubeInfo.Snippet.LiveBroadcastContent != "none" {
+		return errors.Err("video is a live stream and hasn't completed yet")
+	}
 	videoPath := v.getFullPath()

 	err := os.Mkdir(v.videoDir(), 0777)
@ -231,54 +206,24 @@ func (v *YoutubeVideo) download() error {
 		"1080",
 		"720",
 		"480",
-		"360",
+		"320",
 	}
-	dur := time.Duration(v.youtubeInfo.Duration) * time.Second
-	if dur.Hours() > 1 { //for videos longer than 1 hour only sync up to 720p
-		qualities = []string{
-			"720",
-			"480",
-			"360",
-		}
-	}
-
-	metadataPath := path.Join(logUtils.GetVideoMetadataDir(), v.id+".info.json")
-	_, err = os.Stat(metadataPath)
-	if err != nil {
-		if os.IsNotExist(err) {
-			return errors.Err("metadata information for video %s is missing! Why?", v.id)
-		}
-		return errors.Err(err)
-	}
-
-	metadata, err := parseVideoMetadata(metadataPath)
-
-	err = checkCookiesIntegrity()
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
 	ytdlArgs := []string{
 		"--no-progress",
 		"-o" + strings.TrimSuffix(v.getFullPath(), ".mp4"),
 		"--merge-output-format",
 		"mp4",
+		"--rm-cache-dir",
 		"--postprocessor-args",
-		"ffmpeg:-movflags faststart",
+		"-movflags faststart",
 		"--abort-on-unavailable-fragment",
 		"--fragment-retries",
-		"1",
+		"0",
+		"--user-agent",
+		"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.88 Safari/537.36",
 		"--cookies",
 		"cookies.txt",
-		"--extractor-args",
-		"youtube:player_client=android",
-		//"--concurrent-fragments",
-		//"2",
-		"--load-info-json",
-		metadataPath,
 	}
-
-	userAgent := []string{"--user-agent", downloader.ChromeUA}
 	if v.maxVideoSize > 0 {
 		ytdlArgs = append(ytdlArgs,
 			"--max-filesize",
@ -288,7 +233,7 @@ func (v *YoutubeVideo) download() error {
 	if v.maxVideoLength > 0 {
 		ytdlArgs = append(ytdlArgs,
 			"--match-filter",
-			fmt.Sprintf("duration <= %d", int(v.maxVideoLength.Seconds())),
+			fmt.Sprintf("duration <= %d", int(math.Round(v.maxVideoLength*3600))),
 		)
 	}

@ -315,19 +260,13 @@ func (v *YoutubeVideo) download() error {
 	ytdlArgs = append(ytdlArgs,
 		"--source-address",
 		sourceAddress,
-		fmt.Sprintf("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s", v.id),
+		"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v="+v.ID(),
 	)
-	//speedThrottleRetries := 3
-	for i := 0; i < len(qualities); i++ {
-		quality := qualities[i]
-		argsWithFilters := append(ytdlArgs, "-fbestvideo[ext=mp4][vcodec!*=av01][height<="+quality+"]+bestaudio[ext!=webm][format_id!=258][format_id!=380][format_id!=251][format_id!=256][format_id!=327][format_id!=328]")
-		argsWithFilters = append(argsWithFilters, userAgent...)
-		//if speedThrottleRetries > 0 {
-		//	speedThrottleRetries--
-		//	argsWithFilters = append(argsWithFilters, "--throttled-rate", "180K")
-		//}
-		cmd := exec.Command("yt-dlp", argsWithFilters...)
-		log.Printf("Running command yt-dlp %s", strings.Join(argsWithFilters, " "))
+
+	for i, quality := range qualities {
+		argsWithFilters := append(ytdlArgs, "-fbestvideo[ext=mp4][height<="+quality+"]+bestaudio[ext!=webm]")
+		cmd := exec.Command("youtube-dl", argsWithFilters...)
+		log.Printf("Running command youtube-dl %s", strings.Join(argsWithFilters, " "))

 		stderr, err := cmd.StderrPipe()
 		if err != nil {
@ -342,22 +281,9 @@ func (v *YoutubeVideo) download() error {
 			return errors.Err(err)
 		}

-		dlStopGrp := stop.New()
-
-		ticker := time.NewTicker(400 * time.Millisecond)
-		go v.trackProgressBar(argsWithFilters, ticker, metadata, dlStopGrp, sourceAddress)
-
-		//ticker2 := time.NewTicker(10 * time.Second)
-		//v.monitorSlowDownload(ticker, dlStopGrp, sourceAddress, cmd)
-
 		errorLog, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(stderr)
 		outLog, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(stdout)
 		err = cmd.Wait()
-
-		//stop the progress bar
-		ticker.Stop()
-		dlStopGrp.Stop()
-
 		if err != nil {
 			if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "exit status 1") {
 				if strings.Contains(string(errorLog), "HTTP Error 429") || strings.Contains(string(errorLog), "returned non-zero exit status 8") {
@ -367,15 +293,6 @@ func (v *YoutubeVideo) download() error {
 						return errors.Err(string(errorLog))
 					}
 					continue //this bypasses the yt throttling IP redistribution... TODO: don't
-				} else if strings.Contains(string(errorLog), "YouTube said: Unable to extract video data") && !strings.Contains(userAgent[1], "Googlebot") {
-					i-- //do not lower quality when trying a different user agent
-					userAgent = []string{downloader.GoogleBotUA}
-					log.Infof("trying different user agent for video %s", v.ID())
-					continue
-					//} else if strings.Contains(string(errorLog), "yt_dlp.utils.ThrottledDownload") {
-					//	log.Infof("throttled download speed for video %s. Retrying", v.ID())
-					//	i-- //do not lower quality when we're retrying a throttled download
-					//	continue
 				}
 				return errors.Err(string(errorLog))
 			}
@ -392,9 +309,6 @@ func (v *YoutubeVideo) download() error {
 			return errors.Err("the video is too big to sync, skipping for now")
 		}
 		if string(errorLog) != "" {
-			if strings.Contains(string(errorLog), "HTTP Error 429") {
-				v.pool.SetThrottled(sourceAddress)
-			}
 			log.Printf("Command finished with error: %v", errors.Err(string(errorLog)))
 			_ = v.delete("due to error")
 			return errors.Err(string(errorLog))
@ -413,241 +327,10 @@ func (v *YoutubeVideo) download() error {
 	}
 	return nil
 }
-func (v *YoutubeVideo) monitorSlowDownload(ticker *time.Ticker, stop *stop.Group, address string, cmd *exec.Cmd) {
-	count := 0
-	lastSize := int64(0)
-	for {
-		select {
-		case <-stop.Ch():
-			return
-		case <-ticker.C:
-			size, err := logUtils.DirSize(v.videoDir())
-			if err != nil {
-				log.Errorf("error while getting size of download directory: %s", errors.FullTrace(err))
-				continue
-			}
-			delta := size - lastSize
-			avgSpeed := delta / 10
-			if avgSpeed < 200*1024 { //200 KB/s
-				count++
-			} else {
-				count--
-			}
-			if count > 3 {
-				err := cmd.Process.Signal(syscall.SIGKILL)
-				if err != nil {
-					log.Errorf("failure in killing slow download: %s", errors.Err(err))
-					return
-				}
-			}
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func (v *YoutubeVideo) trackProgressBar(argsWithFilters []string, ticker *time.Ticker, metadata *ytMetadata, done *stop.Group, sourceAddress string) {
-	v.progressBarWg.Add(1)
-	go func() {
-		defer v.progressBarWg.Done()
-		//get size of the video before downloading
-		cmd := exec.Command("yt-dlp", append(argsWithFilters, "-s")...)
-		stdout, err := cmd.StdoutPipe()
-		if err != nil {
-			log.Errorf("error while getting final file size: %s", errors.FullTrace(err))
-			return
-		}
-
-		if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
-			log.Errorf("error while getting final file size: %s", errors.FullTrace(err))
-			return
-		}
-		outLog, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(stdout)
-		err = cmd.Wait()
-		output := string(outLog)
-		parts := strings.Split(output, ": ")
-		if len(parts) != 3 {
-			log.Errorf("couldn't parse audio and video parts from the output (%s)", output)
-			return
-		}
-		formats := strings.Split(parts[2], "+")
-		if len(formats) != 2 {
-			log.Errorf("couldn't parse formats from the output (%s)", output)
-			return
-		}
-		log.Debugf("'%s'", output)
-		videoFormat := formats[0]
-		audioFormat := strings.Replace(formats[1], "\n", "", -1)
-
-		videoSize := 0
-		audioSize := 0
-		if metadata != nil {
-			for _, f := range metadata.Formats {
-				if f.FormatID == videoFormat {
-					videoSize = f.Filesize
-				}
-				if f.FormatID == audioFormat {
-					audioSize = f.Filesize
-				}
-			}
-		}
-
-		log.Debugf("(%s) - videoSize: %d (%s), audiosize: %d (%s)", v.id, videoSize, videoFormat, audioSize, audioFormat)
-		bar := v.progressBars.AddBar(int64(videoSize+audioSize),
-			mpb.PrependDecorators(
-				decor.CountersKibiByte("% .2f / % .2f "),
-				// simple name decorator
-				decor.Name(fmt.Sprintf("id: %s src-ip: (%s)", v.id, sourceAddress)),
-				// decor.DSyncWidth bit enables column width synchronization
-				decor.Percentage(decor.WCSyncSpace),
-			),
-			mpb.AppendDecorators(
-				decor.EwmaETA(decor.ET_STYLE_GO, 90),
-				decor.Name(" ] "),
-				decor.EwmaSpeed(decor.UnitKiB, "% .2f ", 60),
-				decor.OnComplete(
-					// ETA decorator with ewma age of 60
-					decor.EwmaETA(decor.ET_STYLE_GO, 60), "done",
-				),
-			),
-			mpb.BarRemoveOnComplete(),
-		)
-		defer func() {
-			bar.Completed()
-			bar.Abort(true)
-		}()
-		origSize := int64(0)
-		lastUpdate := time.Now()
-		for {
-			select {
-			case <-done.Ch():
-				return
-			case <-ticker.C:
-				var err error
-				size, err := logUtils.DirSize(v.videoDir())
-				if err != nil {
-					log.Errorf("error while getting size of download directory: %s", errors.FullTrace(err))
-					return
-				}
-				if size > origSize {
-					origSize = size
-					bar.SetCurrent(size)
-					if size > int64(videoSize+audioSize) {
-						bar.SetTotal(size+2048, false)
-					}
-					bar.DecoratorEwmaUpdate(time.Since(lastUpdate))
-					lastUpdate = time.Now()
-				}
-			}
-		}
-	}()
-}
-
-type ytMetadata struct {
-	ID      string `json:"id"`
-	Title   string `json:"title"`
-	Formats []struct {
-		Asr               int         `json:"asr"`
-		Filesize          int         `json:"filesize"`
-		FormatID          string      `json:"format_id"`
-		FormatNote        string      `json:"format_note"`
-		Fps               interface{} `json:"fps"`
-		Height            interface{} `json:"height"`
-		Quality           int         `json:"quality"`
-		Tbr               float64     `json:"tbr"`
-		URL               string      `json:"url"`
-		Width             interface{} `json:"width"`
-		Ext               string      `json:"ext"`
-		Vcodec            string      `json:"vcodec"`
-		Acodec            string      `json:"acodec"`
-		Abr               float64     `json:"abr,omitempty"`
-		DownloaderOptions struct {
-			HTTPChunkSize int `json:"http_chunk_size"`
-		} `json:"downloader_options,omitempty"`
-		Container   string `json:"container,omitempty"`
-		Format      string `json:"format"`
-		Protocol    string `json:"protocol"`
-		HTTPHeaders struct {
-			UserAgent      string `json:"User-Agent"`
-			AcceptCharset  string `json:"Accept-Charset"`
-			Accept         string `json:"Accept"`
-			AcceptEncoding string `json:"Accept-Encoding"`
-			AcceptLanguage string `json:"Accept-Language"`
-		} `json:"http_headers"`
-		Vbr float64 `json:"vbr,omitempty"`
-	} `json:"formats"`
-	Thumbnails []struct {
-		Height     int    `json:"height"`
-		URL        string `json:"url"`
-		Width      int    `json:"width"`
-		Resolution string `json:"resolution"`
-		ID         string `json:"id"`
-	} `json:"thumbnails"`
-	Description        string        `json:"description"`
-	UploadDate         string        `json:"upload_date"`
-	Uploader           string        `json:"uploader"`
-	UploaderID         string        `json:"uploader_id"`
-	UploaderURL        string        `json:"uploader_url"`
-	ChannelID          string        `json:"channel_id"`
-	ChannelURL         string        `json:"channel_url"`
-	Duration           int           `json:"duration"`
-	ViewCount          int           `json:"view_count"`
-	AverageRating      float64       `json:"average_rating"`
-	AgeLimit           int           `json:"age_limit"`
-	WebpageURL         string        `json:"webpage_url"`
-	Categories         []string      `json:"categories"`
-	Tags               []interface{} `json:"tags"`
-	IsLive             interface{}   `json:"is_live"`
-	LikeCount          int           `json:"like_count"`
-	DislikeCount       int           `json:"dislike_count"`
-	Channel            string        `json:"channel"`
-	Extractor          string        `json:"extractor"`
-	WebpageURLBasename string        `json:"webpage_url_basename"`
-	ExtractorKey       string        `json:"extractor_key"`
-	Playlist           interface{}   `json:"playlist"`
-	PlaylistIndex      interface{}   `json:"playlist_index"`
-	Thumbnail          string        `json:"thumbnail"`
-	DisplayID          string        `json:"display_id"`
-	Format             string        `json:"format"`
-	FormatID           string        `json:"format_id"`
-	Width              int           `json:"width"`
-	Height             int           `json:"height"`
-	Resolution         interface{}   `json:"resolution"`
-	Fps                int           `json:"fps"`
-	Vcodec             string        `json:"vcodec"`
-	Vbr                float64       `json:"vbr"`
-	StretchedRatio     interface{}   `json:"stretched_ratio"`
-	Acodec             string        `json:"acodec"`
-	Abr                float64       `json:"abr"`
-	Ext                string        `json:"ext"`
-	Fulltitle          string        `json:"fulltitle"`
-	Filename           string        `json:"_filename"`
-}
-
-func parseVideoMetadata(metadataPath string) (*ytMetadata, error) {
-	f, err := os.Open(metadataPath)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	// defer the closing of our jsonFile so that we can parse it later on
-	defer f.Close()
-	// read our opened jsonFile as a byte array.
-	byteValue, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(f)
-
-	// we initialize our Users array
-	var m ytMetadata
-
-	// we unmarshal our byteArray which contains our
-	// jsonFile's content into 'users' which we defined above
-	err = json.Unmarshal(byteValue, &m)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	return &m, nil
-}

 func (v *YoutubeVideo) videoDir() string {
-	return path.Join(v.dir, v.id)
+	return v.dir + "/" + v.id
 }
-
 func (v *YoutubeVideo) getDownloadedPath() (string, error) {
 	files, err := ioutil.ReadDir(v.videoDir())
 	log.Infoln(v.videoDir())
@ -662,7 +345,7 @@ func (v *YoutubeVideo) getDownloadedPath() (string, error) {
 			continue
 		}
 		if strings.Contains(v.getFullPath(), strings.TrimSuffix(f.Name(), filepath.Ext(f.Name()))) {
-			return path.Join(v.videoDir(), f.Name()), nil
+			return v.videoDir() + "/" + f.Name(), nil
 		}
 	}
 	return "", errors.Err("could not find any downloaded videos")
@ -687,11 +370,8 @@ func (v *YoutubeVideo) delete(reason string) error {
 }

 func (v *YoutubeVideo) triggerThumbnailSave() (err error) {
-	thumbnail := thumbs.GetBestThumbnail(v.youtubeInfo.Thumbnails)
-	if thumbnail.Width == 0 {
-		return errors.Err("default youtube thumbnail found")
-	}
-	v.thumbnailURL, err = thumbs.MirrorThumbnail(thumbnail.URL, v.ID())
+	thumbnail := thumbs.GetBestThumbnail(v.youtubeInfo.Snippet.Thumbnails)
+	v.thumbnailURL, err = thumbs.MirrorThumbnail(thumbnail.Url, v.ID(), v.awsConfig)
 	return err
 }

@ -713,17 +393,7 @@ func (v *YoutubeVideo) publish(daemon *jsonrpc.Client, params SyncParams) (*Sync
 			FeeCurrency: jsonrpc.Currency(params.Fee.Currency),
 		}
 	}
-	urlsRegex := regexp.MustCompile(`(?m) ?(f|ht)(tp)(s?)(://)(.*)[.|/](.*)`)
-	descriptionSample := urlsRegex.ReplaceAllString(v.description, "")
-	info := whatlanggo.Detect(descriptionSample)
-	info2 := whatlanggo.Detect(v.title)
-	if info.IsReliable() && info.Lang.Iso6391() != "" {
-		language := info.Lang.Iso6391()
-		languages = []string{language}
-	} else if info2.IsReliable() && info2.Lang.Iso6391() != "" {
-		language := info2.Lang.Iso6391()
-		languages = []string{language}
-	}
+
 	options := jsonrpc.StreamCreateOptions{
 		ClaimCreateOptions: jsonrpc.ClaimCreateOptions{
 			Title:        &v.title,
@ -759,18 +429,16 @@ type SyncParams struct {
 	ChannelID      string
 	MaxVideoSize   int
 	Namer          *namer.Namer
-	MaxVideoLength time.Duration
-	Fee            *shared.Fee
+	MaxVideoLength float64
+	Fee            *sdk.Fee
 	DefaultAccount string
 }

-func (v *YoutubeVideo) Sync(daemon *jsonrpc.Client, params SyncParams, existingVideoData *sdk.SyncedVideo, reprocess bool, walletLock *sync.RWMutex, pbWg *sync.WaitGroup, pb *mpb.Progress) (*SyncSummary, error) {
+func (v *YoutubeVideo) Sync(daemon *jsonrpc.Client, params SyncParams, existingVideoData *sdk.SyncedVideo, reprocess bool, walletLock *sync.RWMutex) (*SyncSummary, error) {
 	v.maxVideoSize = int64(params.MaxVideoSize)
 	v.maxVideoLength = params.MaxVideoLength
 	v.lbryChannelID = params.ChannelID
 	v.walletLock = walletLock
-	v.progressBars = pb
-	v.progressBarWg = pbWg
 	if reprocess && existingVideoData != nil && existingVideoData.Published {
 		summary, err := v.reprocess(daemon, params, existingVideoData)
 		return summary, errors.Prefix("upgrade failed", err)
@ -780,32 +448,15 @@ func (v *YoutubeVideo) Sync(daemon *jsonrpc.Client, params SyncParams, existingV

 func (v *YoutubeVideo) downloadAndPublish(daemon *jsonrpc.Client, params SyncParams) (*SyncSummary, error) {
 	var err error
-	if v.youtubeInfo == nil {
-		return nil, errors.Err("Video is not available - hardcoded fix")
+	videoDuration, err := duration.FromString(v.youtubeInfo.ContentDetails.Duration)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, errors.Err(err)
 	}
-
-	dur := time.Duration(v.youtubeInfo.Duration) * time.Second
-	minDuration := 7 * time.Second
-
-	if v.youtubeInfo.IsLive == true {
-		return nil, errors.Err("video is a live stream and hasn't completed yet")
-	}
-	if v.youtubeInfo.Availability != "public" {
-		return nil, errors.Err("video is not public")
-	}
-	if dur > v.maxVideoLength {
-		logUtils.SendErrorToSlack("%s is %s long and the limit is %s", v.id, dur.String(), v.maxVideoLength.String())
+	if videoDuration.ToDuration() > time.Duration(v.maxVideoLength*60)*time.Minute {
+		log.Infof("%s is %s long and the limit is %s", v.id, videoDuration.ToDuration().String(), (time.Duration(v.maxVideoLength*60) * time.Minute).String())
+		logUtils.SendErrorToSlack("%s is %s long and the limit is %s", v.id, videoDuration.ToDuration().String(), (time.Duration(v.maxVideoLength*60) * time.Minute).String())
 		return nil, errors.Err("video is too long to process")
 	}
-	if dur < minDuration {
-		logUtils.SendErrorToSlack("%s is %s long and the minimum is %s", v.id, dur.String(), minDuration.String())
-		return nil, errors.Err("video is too short to process")
-	}
-
-	buggedLivestream := v.youtubeInfo.LiveStatus == "post_live"
-	if buggedLivestream && dur >= 2*time.Hour {
-		return nil, errors.Err("livestream is likely bugged as it was recently published and has a length of %s which is more than 2 hours", dur.String())
-	}
 	for {
 		err = v.download()
 		if err != nil && strings.Contains(err.Error(), "HTTP Error 429") {
@ -816,17 +467,8 @@ func (v *YoutubeVideo) downloadAndPublish(daemon *jsonrpc.Client, params SyncPar
 		break
 	}

-	ctx, cancelFn := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 5*time.Second)
-	defer cancelFn()
+	log.Debugln("Downloaded " + v.id)

-	data, err := ffprobe.ProbeURL(ctx, v.getFullPath())
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Errorf("failure in probing downloaded video: %s", err.Error())
-	} else {
-		if data.Format.Duration() < minDuration {
-			return nil, errors.Err("video is too short to process")
-		}
-	}
 	err = v.triggerThumbnailSave()
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, errors.Prefix("thumbnail error", err)
@ -845,41 +487,34 @@ func (v *YoutubeVideo) getMetadata() (languages []string, locations []jsonrpc.Lo
 	locations = nil
 	tags = nil
 	if !v.mocked {
-		/*
-			if v.youtubeInfo.Snippet.DefaultLanguage != "" {
-				if v.youtubeInfo.Snippet.DefaultLanguage == "iw" {
-					v.youtubeInfo.Snippet.DefaultLanguage = "he"
-				}
-				languages = []string{v.youtubeInfo.Snippet.DefaultLanguage}
-			}*/
+		if v.youtubeInfo.Snippet.DefaultLanguage != "" {
+			if v.youtubeInfo.Snippet.DefaultLanguage == "iw" {
+				v.youtubeInfo.Snippet.DefaultLanguage = "he"
+			}
+			languages = []string{v.youtubeInfo.Snippet.DefaultLanguage}
+		}

-		/*if v.youtubeInfo.!= nil && v.youtubeInfo.RecordingDetails.Location != nil {
+		if v.youtubeInfo.RecordingDetails != nil && v.youtubeInfo.RecordingDetails.Location != nil {
 			locations = []jsonrpc.Location{{
 				Latitude:  util.PtrToString(fmt.Sprintf("%.7f", v.youtubeInfo.RecordingDetails.Location.Latitude)),
 				Longitude: util.PtrToString(fmt.Sprintf("%.7f", v.youtubeInfo.RecordingDetails.Location.Longitude)),
 			}}
-		}*/
-		tags = v.youtubeInfo.Tags
+		}
+		tags = v.youtubeInfo.Snippet.Tags
 	}
 	tags, err := tags_manager.SanitizeTags(tags, v.youtubeChannelID)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Errorln(err.Error())
 	}
 	if !v.mocked {
-		for _, category := range v.youtubeInfo.Categories {
-			tags = append(tags, youtubeCategories[category])
-		}
+		tags = append(tags, youtubeCategories[v.youtubeInfo.Snippet.CategoryId])
 	}

 	return languages, locations, tags
 }

 func (v *YoutubeVideo) reprocess(daemon *jsonrpc.Client, params SyncParams, existingVideoData *sdk.SyncedVideo) (*SyncSummary, error) {
-	c, err := daemon.ClaimSearch(jsonrpc.ClaimSearchArgs{
-		ClaimID:  &existingVideoData.ClaimID,
-		Page:     1,
-		PageSize: 20,
-	})
+	c, err := daemon.ClaimSearch(nil, &existingVideoData.ClaimID, nil, nil, 1, 20)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, errors.Err(err)
 	}
@ -897,8 +532,8 @@ func (v *YoutubeVideo) reprocess(daemon *jsonrpc.Client, params SyncParams, exis
 		if v.mocked {
 			return nil, errors.Err("could not find thumbnail for mocked video")
 		}
-		thumbnail := thumbs.GetBestThumbnail(v.youtubeInfo.Thumbnails)
-		thumbnailURL, err = thumbs.MirrorThumbnail(thumbnail.URL, v.ID())
+		thumbnail := thumbs.GetBestThumbnail(v.youtubeInfo.Snippet.Thumbnails)
+		thumbnailURL, err = thumbs.MirrorThumbnail(thumbnail.Url, v.ID(), v.awsConfig)
 	} else {
 		thumbnailURL = thumbs.ThumbnailEndpoint + v.ID()
 	}
@ -915,8 +550,9 @@ func (v *YoutubeVideo) reprocess(daemon *jsonrpc.Client, params SyncParams, exis
 					return nil, errors.Err(err)
 				}
 				return v.downloadAndPublish(daemon, params)
+
 			}
-			return nil, errors.Prefix("the video must be republished as we can't get the right size and it doesn't exist on youtube anymore", err)
+			return nil, errors.Err("the video must be republished as we can't get the right size but it doesn't exist on youtube anymore")
 		}
 	}
 	v.size = util.PtrToInt64(int64(videoSize))
@ -942,13 +578,12 @@ func (v *YoutubeVideo) reprocess(daemon *jsonrpc.Client, params SyncParams, exis
 				params.DefaultAccount,
 			},
 		},
-		Author:      util.PtrToString(""),
-		License:     util.PtrToString("Copyrighted (contact publisher)"),
-		ChannelID:   &v.lbryChannelID,
-		Height:      util.PtrToUint(720),
-		Width:       util.PtrToUint(1280),
-		Fee:         fee,
-		ReleaseTime: util.PtrToInt64(v.publishedAt.Unix()),
+		Author:    util.PtrToString(""),
+		License:   util.PtrToString("Copyrighted (contact publisher)"),
+		ChannelID: &v.lbryChannelID,
+		Height:    util.PtrToUint(720),
+		Width:     util.PtrToUint(1280),
+		Fee:       fee,
 	}

 	v.walletLock.RLock()
@ -970,9 +605,14 @@ func (v *YoutubeVideo) reprocess(daemon *jsonrpc.Client, params SyncParams, exis
 		}, nil
 	}

+	videoDuration, err := duration.FromString(v.youtubeInfo.ContentDetails.Duration)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, errors.Err(err)
+	}
+
 	streamCreateOptions.ClaimCreateOptions.Title = &v.title
 	streamCreateOptions.ClaimCreateOptions.Description = util.PtrToString(v.getAbbrevDescription())
-	streamCreateOptions.Duration = util.PtrToUint64(uint64(v.youtubeInfo.Duration))
+	streamCreateOptions.Duration = util.PtrToUint64(uint64(math.Ceil(videoDuration.ToDuration().Seconds())))
 	streamCreateOptions.ReleaseTime = util.PtrToInt64(v.publishedAt.Unix())
 	start := time.Now()
 	pr, err := daemon.StreamUpdate(existingVideoData.ClaimID, jsonrpc.StreamUpdateOptions{
--- a/sources/youtubeVideo_test.go
+++ b/sources/youtubeVideo_test.go
@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-package sources
-
-import (
-	"regexp"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/abadojack/whatlanggo"
-	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
-)
-
-func TestLanguageDetection(t *testing.T) {
-	description := `Om lättkränkta muslimer, och den bristande logiken i vad som anses vara att vanära profeten. Från Moderata riksdagspolitikern Hanif Balis podcast "God Ton", avsnitt 108, från oktober 2020, efter terrordådet där en fransk lärare fick huvudet avskuret efter att undervisat sin mångkulturella klass om frihet.`
-	info := whatlanggo.Detect(description)
-	logrus.Infof("confidence: %.2f", info.Confidence)
-	assert.True(t, info.IsReliable())
-	assert.True(t, info.Lang.Iso6391() != "")
-	assert.Equal(t, "sv", info.Lang.Iso6391())
-
-	description = `🥳週四直播 | 晚上來開個賽車🔰歡迎各位一起來玩! - PonPonLin蹦蹦林`
-	info = whatlanggo.Detect(description)
-	logrus.Infof("confidence: %.2f", info.Confidence)
-	assert.True(t, info.IsReliable())
-	assert.True(t, info.Lang.Iso6391() != "")
-	assert.Equal(t, "zh", info.Lang.Iso6391())
-
-	description = `成為這個頻道的會員並獲得獎勵：
-https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOQFrooz-YGHjYb7s3-MrsQ/join
-_____________________________________________
-想聽我既音樂作品可以去下面LINK
-streetvoice 街聲：
-https://streetvoice.com/CTLam331/
-_____________________________________________
-想學結他、鋼琴
-有關音樂制作工作
-都可以搵我～
-大家快D訂閱喇
-不定期出片
-
-
-
-
-Website: http://ctlam331.wixsite.com/ctlamusic
-FB PAGE：https://www.facebook.com/ctlam331
-IG：ctlamusic`
-	urlsRegex := regexp.MustCompile(`(?m) ?(f|ht)(tp)(s?)(://)(.*)[.|/](.*)`)
-	descriptionSample := urlsRegex.ReplaceAllString(description, "")
-	info = whatlanggo.Detect(descriptionSample)
-	logrus.Infof("confidence: %.2f", info.Confidence)
-	assert.True(t, info.IsReliable())
-	assert.True(t, info.Lang.Iso6391() != "")
-	assert.Equal(t, "zh", info.Lang.Iso6391())
-}
--- a/thumbs/uploader.go
+++ b/thumbs/uploader.go
@ -4,10 +4,6 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"net/http"
 	"os"
-	"strings"
-
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/configs"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/downloader/ytdl"

 	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/errors"

@ -15,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/session"
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/s3/s3manager"
 	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
+	"google.golang.org/api/youtube/v3"
 )

 type thumbnailUploader struct {
@ -34,9 +31,7 @@ func (u *thumbnailUploader) downloadThumbnail() error {
 		return errors.Err(err)
 	}
 	defer img.Close()
-	if strings.HasPrefix(u.originalUrl, "//") {
-		u.originalUrl = "https:" + u.originalUrl
-	}
+
 	resp, err := http.Get(u.originalUrl)
 	if err != nil {
 		return errors.Err(err)
@ -73,7 +68,6 @@ func (u *thumbnailUploader) uploadThumbnail() error {
 		ContentType:  aws.String("image/jpeg"),
 		CacheControl: aws.String("public, max-age=2592000"),
 	})
-
 	u.mirroredUrl = ThumbnailEndpoint + u.name
 	return errors.Err(err)
 }
@ -84,11 +78,11 @@ func (u *thumbnailUploader) deleteTmpFile() {
 		log.Infof("failed to delete local thumbnail file: %s", err.Error())
 	}
 }
-func MirrorThumbnail(url string, name string) (string, error) {
+func MirrorThumbnail(url string, name string, s3Config aws.Config) (string, error) {
 	tu := thumbnailUploader{
 		originalUrl: url,
 		name:        name,
-		s3Config:    *configs.Configuration.AWSThumbnailsS3Config.GetS3AWSConfig(),
+		s3Config:    s3Config,
 	}
 	err := tu.downloadThumbnail()
 	if err != nil {
@ -101,26 +95,18 @@ func MirrorThumbnail(url string, name string) (string, error) {
 		return "", err
 	}

-	//this is our own S3 storage
-	tu2 := thumbnailUploader{
-		originalUrl: url,
-		name:        name,
-		s3Config:    *configs.Configuration.ThumbnailsS3Config.GetS3AWSConfig(),
-	}
-	err = tu2.uploadThumbnail()
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-
 	return tu.mirroredUrl, nil
 }

-func GetBestThumbnail(thumbnails []ytdl.Thumbnail) *ytdl.Thumbnail {
-	var bestWidth ytdl.Thumbnail
-	for _, thumbnail := range thumbnails {
-		if bestWidth.Width < thumbnail.Width {
-			bestWidth = thumbnail
-		}
+func GetBestThumbnail(thumbnails *youtube.ThumbnailDetails) *youtube.Thumbnail {
+	if thumbnails.Maxres != nil {
+		return thumbnails.Maxres
+	} else if thumbnails.High != nil {
+		return thumbnails.High
+	} else if thumbnails.Medium != nil {
+		return thumbnails.Medium
+	} else if thumbnails.Standard != nil {
+		return thumbnails.Standard
 	}
-	return &bestWidth
+	return thumbnails.Default
 }
--- a/util/archive.go
+++ b/util/archive.go
@ -1,109 +0,0 @@
-package util
-
-import (
-	"archive/tar"
-	"io"
-	"io/fs"
-	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
-
-	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/errors"
-)
-
-func CreateTarball(tarballFilePath string, filePaths []string) error {
-	file, err := os.Create(tarballFilePath)
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Err("Could not create tarball file '%s', got error '%s'", tarballFilePath, err.Error())
-	}
-	defer file.Close()
-
-	tarWriter := tar.NewWriter(file)
-	defer tarWriter.Close()
-
-	for _, filePath := range filePaths {
-		err := addFileToTarWriter(filePath, tarWriter)
-		if err != nil {
-			return errors.Err("Could not add file '%s', to tarball, got error '%s'", filePath, err.Error())
-		}
-	}
-
-	return nil
-}
-
-func addFileToTarWriter(filePath string, tarWriter *tar.Writer) error {
-	file, err := os.Open(filePath)
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Err("Could not open file '%s', got error '%s'", filePath, err.Error())
-	}
-	defer file.Close()
-
-	stat, err := file.Stat()
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Err("Could not get stat for file '%s', got error '%s'", filePath, err.Error())
-	}
-
-	header := &tar.Header{
-		Name:    stat.Name(),
-		Size:    stat.Size(),
-		Mode:    int64(stat.Mode()),
-		ModTime: stat.ModTime(),
-	}
-
-	err = tarWriter.WriteHeader(header)
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Err("Could not write header for file '%s', got error '%s'", filePath, err.Error())
-	}
-
-	_, err = io.Copy(tarWriter, file)
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Err("Could not copy the file '%s' data to the tarball, got error '%s'", filePath, err.Error())
-	}
-
-	return nil
-}
-
-func Untar(tarball, target string) error {
-	reader, err := os.Open(tarball)
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	defer reader.Close()
-	tarReader := tar.NewReader(reader)
-
-	for {
-		header, err := tarReader.Next()
-		if err == io.EOF {
-			break
-		} else if err != nil {
-			return errors.Err(err)
-		}
-
-		path := filepath.Join(target, header.Name)
-		info := header.FileInfo()
-		if info.IsDir() {
-			if err = os.MkdirAll(path, info.Mode()); err != nil {
-				return errors.Err(err)
-			}
-			continue
-		}
-
-		err = extractFile(path, info, tarReader)
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-func extractFile(path string, info fs.FileInfo, tarReader *tar.Reader) error {
-	file, err := os.OpenFile(path, os.O_CREATE|os.O_TRUNC|os.O_WRONLY, info.Mode())
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	defer file.Close()
-	_, err = io.Copy(file, tarReader)
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	return nil
-}
--- a/util/log_wrapper.go
+++ b/util/log_wrapper.go
@ -14,9 +14,7 @@ func SendErrorToSlack(format string, a ...interface{}) {
 		message = fmt.Sprintf(format, a...)
 	}
 	log.Errorln(message)
-	log.SetLevel(log.InfoLevel) //I don't want to change the underlying lib so this will do...
-	err := util.SendToSlack(":sos: ```" + message + "```")
-	log.SetLevel(log.DebugLevel)
+	err := util.SendToSlack(":sos: " + message)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Errorln(err)
 	}
@ -29,9 +27,7 @@ func SendInfoToSlack(format string, a ...interface{}) {
 		message = fmt.Sprintf(format, a...)
 	}
 	log.Infoln(message)
-	log.SetLevel(log.InfoLevel) //I don't want to change the underlying lib so this will do...
 	err := util.SendToSlack(":information_source: " + message)
-	log.SetLevel(log.DebugLevel)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Errorln(err)
 	}
--- a/util/util.go
+++ b/util/util.go
@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import (

 	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/errors"
 	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/lbrycrd"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/configs"
 	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/timing"

 	"github.com/docker/docker/api/types"
@ -53,7 +52,7 @@ func GetLBRYNetDir() string {
 }

 func GetLbryumDir() string {
-	lbryumDir := os.Getenv("LBRYUM_DIR")
+	lbryumDir := os.Getenv("LBRYNET_WALLETS_DIR")
 	if lbryumDir == "" {
 		usr, err := user.Current()
 		if err != nil {
@ -186,9 +185,9 @@ func CleanForStartup() error {
 		return errors.Err(err)
 	}

-	lbrycrd, err := GetLbrycrdClient(configs.Configuration.LbrycrdString)
+	lbrycrd, err := GetLbrycrdClient(os.Getenv("LBRYCRD_STRING"))
 	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Prefix("error getting lbrycrd client", err)
+		return errors.Prefix("error getting lbrycrd client: ", err)
 	}
 	height, err := lbrycrd.GetBlockCount()
 	if err != nil {
@ -249,40 +248,29 @@ func CleanupLbrynet() error {
 	}
 	lbryumDir = lbryumDir + ledger

-	files, err = filepath.Glob(lbryumDir + "/blockchain.db*")
+	db, err := os.Stat(lbryumDir + "/blockchain.db")
 	if err != nil {
+		if os.IsNotExist(err) {
+			return nil
+		}
 		return errors.Err(err)
 	}
-	for _, f := range files {
-		err = os.Remove(f)
+	dbSizeLimit := int64(1 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024)
+	if db.Size() > dbSizeLimit {
+		files, err := filepath.Glob(lbryumDir + "/blockchain.db*")
 		if err != nil {
 			return errors.Err(err)
 		}
+		for _, f := range files {
+			err = os.Remove(f)
+			if err != nil {
+				return errors.Err(err)
+			}
+		}
 	}
 	return nil
 }

-var metadataDirInitialized = false
-
-func GetVideoMetadataDir() string {
-	dir := "./videos_metadata"
-	if !metadataDirInitialized {
-		metadataDirInitialized = true
-		_ = os.MkdirAll(dir, 0755)
-	}
-	return dir
-}
-
-func CleanupMetadata() error {
-	dir := GetVideoMetadataDir()
-	err := os.RemoveAll(dir)
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	metadataDirInitialized = false
-	return nil
-}
-
 func SleepUntilQuotaReset() {
 	PST, _ := time.LoadLocation("America/Los_Angeles")
 	t := time.Now().In(PST)
@ -378,45 +366,9 @@ func GetDefaultWalletPath() string {
 		defaultWalletDir = os.Getenv("HOME") + "/.lbryum_regtest/wallets/default_wallet"
 	}

-	walletPath := os.Getenv("LBRYUM_DIR")
+	walletPath := os.Getenv("LBRYNET_WALLETS_DIR")
 	if walletPath != "" {
 		defaultWalletDir = walletPath + "/wallets/default_wallet"
 	}
 	return defaultWalletDir
 }
-func GetBlockchainDBPath() string {
-	lbryumDir := os.Getenv("LBRYUM_DIR")
-	if lbryumDir == "" {
-		if IsRegTest() {
-			lbryumDir = os.Getenv("HOME") + "/.lbryum_regtest"
-		} else {
-			lbryumDir = os.Getenv("HOME") + "/.lbryum"
-		}
-	}
-	defaultDB := lbryumDir + "/lbc_mainnet/blockchain.db"
-	if IsRegTest() {
-		defaultDB = lbryumDir + "/lbc_regtest/blockchain.db"
-	}
-	return defaultDB
-}
-func GetBlockchainDirectoryName() string {
-	ledger := "lbc_mainnet"
-	if IsRegTest() {
-		ledger = "lbc_regtest"
-	}
-	return ledger
-}
-
-func DirSize(path string) (int64, error) {
-	var size int64
-	err := filepath.Walk(path, func(_ string, info os.FileInfo, err error) error {
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		if !info.IsDir() {
-			size += info.Size()
-		}
-		return err
-	})
-	return size, err
-}
--- a/ytapi/ytapi.go
+++ b/ytapi/ytapi.go
@ -1,388 +0,0 @@
-package ytapi
-
-import (
-	"bufio"
-	"encoding/json"
-	"fmt"
-	"io/ioutil"
-	"net/http"
-	"regexp"
-	"sort"
-	"strconv"
-	"strings"
-	"sync"
-	"time"
-
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/shared"
-	logUtils "github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/util"
-	"github.com/vbauerster/mpb/v7"
-
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/downloader/ytdl"
-
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/downloader"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/ip_manager"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/sdk"
-	"github.com/lbryio/ytsync/v5/sources"
-
-	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/errors"
-	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/jsonrpc"
-	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/stop"
-	"github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/v2/extras/util"
-
-	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
-)
-
-type Video interface {
-	Size() *int64
-	ID() string
-	IDAndNum() string
-	PlaylistPosition() int
-	PublishedAt() time.Time
-	Sync(*jsonrpc.Client, sources.SyncParams, *sdk.SyncedVideo, bool, *sync.RWMutex, *sync.WaitGroup, *mpb.Progress) (*sources.SyncSummary, error)
-}
-
-type byPublishedAt []Video
-
-func (a byPublishedAt) Len() int           { return len(a) }
-func (a byPublishedAt) Swap(i, j int)      { a[i], a[j] = a[j], a[i] }
-func (a byPublishedAt) Less(i, j int) bool { return a[i].PublishedAt().Before(a[j].PublishedAt()) }
-
-type VideoParams struct {
-	VideoDir string
-	Stopper  *stop.Group
-	IPPool   *ip_manager.IPPool
-}
-
-var mostRecentlyFailedChannel string // TODO: fix this hack!
-
-func GetVideosToSync(channelID string, syncedVideos map[string]sdk.SyncedVideo, quickSync bool, maxVideos int, videoParams VideoParams, lastUploadedVideo string) ([]Video, error) {
-	var videos []Video
-	if quickSync && maxVideos > 50 {
-		maxVideos = 50
-	}
-	allVideos, err := downloader.GetPlaylistVideoIDs(channelID, maxVideos, videoParams.Stopper.Ch(), videoParams.IPPool)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	videoIDs := make([]string, 0, len(allVideos))
-	for _, video := range allVideos {
-		sv, ok := syncedVideos[video]
-		if ok && util.SubstringInSlice(sv.FailureReason, shared.NeverRetryFailures) {
-			continue
-		}
-		videoIDs = append(videoIDs, video)
-	}
-	log.Infof("Got info for %d videos from youtube downloader", len(videoIDs))
-
-	playlistMap := make(map[string]int64)
-	for i, videoID := range videoIDs {
-		playlistMap[videoID] = int64(i)
-	}
-	//this will ensure that we at least try to sync the video that was marked as last uploaded video in the database.
-	if lastUploadedVideo != "" {
-		_, ok := playlistMap[lastUploadedVideo]
-		if !ok {
-			playlistMap[lastUploadedVideo] = 0
-			videoIDs = append(videoIDs, lastUploadedVideo)
-		}
-	}
-
-	if len(videoIDs) < 1 {
-		if channelID == mostRecentlyFailedChannel {
-			return nil, errors.Err("playlist items not found")
-		}
-		mostRecentlyFailedChannel = channelID
-	}
-
-	vids, err := getVideos(channelID, videoIDs, videoParams.Stopper.Ch(), videoParams.IPPool)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	for _, item := range vids {
-		positionInList := playlistMap[item.ID]
-		videoToAdd, err := sources.NewYoutubeVideo(videoParams.VideoDir, item, positionInList, videoParams.Stopper, videoParams.IPPool)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, errors.Err(err)
-		}
-		videos = append(videos, videoToAdd)
-	}
-
-	for k, v := range syncedVideos {
-		newMetadataVersion := int8(2)
-		if !v.Published && v.MetadataVersion >= newMetadataVersion {
-			continue
-		}
-		if _, ok := playlistMap[k]; !ok {
-			videos = append(videos, sources.NewMockedVideo(videoParams.VideoDir, k, channelID, videoParams.Stopper, videoParams.IPPool))
-		}
-	}
-
-	sort.Sort(byPublishedAt(videos))
-
-	return videos, nil
-}
-
-// CountVideosInChannel is unused for now... keeping it here just in case
-func CountVideosInChannel(channelID string) (int, error) {
-	url := "https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/" + channelID
-
-	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
-
-	req.Header.Add("User-Agent", downloader.ChromeUA)
-	req.Header.Add("Accept", "*/*")
-	req.Header.Add("Host", "socialblade.com")
-
-	res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
-	if err != nil {
-		return 0, errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	defer res.Body.Close()
-
-	var line string
-	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(res.Body)
-	for scanner.Scan() {
-		if strings.Contains(scanner.Text(), "youtube-stats-header-uploads") {
-			line = scanner.Text()
-			break
-		}
-	}
-
-	if err := scanner.Err(); err != nil {
-		return 0, err
-	}
-	if line == "" {
-		return 0, errors.Err("upload count line not found")
-	}
-
-	matches := regexp.MustCompile(">([0-9]+)<").FindStringSubmatch(line)
-	if len(matches) != 2 {
-		return 0, errors.Err("upload count not found with regex")
-	}
-
-	num, err := strconv.Atoi(matches[1])
-	if err != nil {
-		return 0, errors.Err(err)
-	}
-
-	return num, nil
-}
-
-func ChannelInfo(channelID string) (*YoutubeStatsResponse, error) {
-	url := "https://www.youtube.com/channel/" + channelID + "/about"
-
-	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
-
-	req.Header.Add("User-Agent", downloader.ChromeUA)
-	req.Header.Add("Accept", "*/*")
-
-	res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	defer res.Body.Close()
-	body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, errors.Err(err)
-	}
-	pageBody := string(body)
-	dataStartIndex := strings.Index(pageBody, "window[\"ytInitialData\"] = ") + 26
-	if dataStartIndex == 25 {
-		dataStartIndex = strings.Index(pageBody, "var ytInitialData = ") + 20
-	}
-	dataEndIndex := strings.Index(pageBody, "]}}};") + 4
-	if dataEndIndex < dataStartIndex {
-		return nil, errors.Err("start index is lower than end index. cannot extract channel info!")
-	}
-	data := pageBody[dataStartIndex:dataEndIndex]
-	var decodedResponse YoutubeStatsResponse
-	err = json.Unmarshal([]byte(data), &decodedResponse)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, errors.Err(err)
-	}
-
-	return &decodedResponse, nil
-}
-
-func getVideos(channelID string, videoIDs []string, stopChan stop.Chan, ipPool *ip_manager.IPPool) ([]*ytdl.YtdlVideo, error) {
-	config := sdk.GetAPIsConfigs()
-	var videos []*ytdl.YtdlVideo
-	for _, videoID := range videoIDs {
-		if len(videoID) < 5 {
-			continue
-		}
-		select {
-		case <-stopChan:
-			return videos, errors.Err("interrupted by user")
-		default:
-		}
-
-		state, err := config.VideoState(videoID)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, errors.Err(err)
-		}
-		if state == "published" {
-			continue
-		}
-		video, err := downloader.GetVideoInformation(videoID, stopChan, ipPool)
-		if err != nil {
-			errSDK := config.MarkVideoStatus(shared.VideoStatus{
-				ChannelID:     channelID,
-				VideoID:       videoID,
-				Status:        "failed",
-				FailureReason: err.Error(),
-			})
-			logUtils.SendErrorToSlack(fmt.Sprintf("Skipping video (%s): %s", videoID, errors.FullTrace(err)))
-			if errSDK != nil {
-				return nil, errors.Err(errSDK)
-			}
-		} else {
-			videos = append(videos, video)
-		}
-	}
-	return videos, nil
-}
-
-type YoutubeStatsResponse struct {
-	Contents struct {
-		TwoColumnBrowseResultsRenderer struct {
-			Tabs []struct {
-				TabRenderer struct {
-					Title    string `json:"title"`
-					Selected bool   `json:"selected"`
-					Content  struct {
-						SectionListRenderer struct {
-							Contents []struct {
-								ItemSectionRenderer struct {
-									Contents []struct {
-										ChannelAboutFullMetadataRenderer struct {
-											Description struct {
-												SimpleText string `json:"simpleText"`
-											} `json:"description"`
-											ViewCountText struct {
-												SimpleText string `json:"simpleText"`
-											} `json:"viewCountText"`
-											JoinedDateText struct {
-												Runs []struct {
-													Text string `json:"text"`
-												} `json:"runs"`
-											} `json:"joinedDateText"`
-											CanonicalChannelURL        string `json:"canonicalChannelUrl"`
-											BypassBusinessEmailCaptcha bool   `json:"bypassBusinessEmailCaptcha"`
-											Title                      struct {
-												SimpleText string `json:"simpleText"`
-											} `json:"title"`
-											Avatar struct {
-												Thumbnails []struct {
-													URL    string `json:"url"`
-													Width  int    `json:"width"`
-													Height int    `json:"height"`
-												} `json:"thumbnails"`
-											} `json:"avatar"`
-											ShowDescription  bool `json:"showDescription"`
-											DescriptionLabel struct {
-												Runs []struct {
-													Text string `json:"text"`
-												} `json:"runs"`
-											} `json:"descriptionLabel"`
-											DetailsLabel struct {
-												Runs []struct {
-													Text string `json:"text"`
-												} `json:"runs"`
-											} `json:"detailsLabel"`
-											ChannelID string `json:"channelId"`
-										} `json:"channelAboutFullMetadataRenderer"`
-									} `json:"contents"`
-								} `json:"itemSectionRenderer"`
-							} `json:"contents"`
-						} `json:"sectionListRenderer"`
-					} `json:"content"`
-				} `json:"tabRenderer"`
-			} `json:"tabs"`
-		} `json:"twoColumnBrowseResultsRenderer"`
-	} `json:"contents"`
-	Header struct {
-		C4TabbedHeaderRenderer struct {
-			ChannelID string `json:"channelId"`
-			Title     string `json:"title"`
-			Avatar    struct {
-				Thumbnails []struct {
-					URL    string `json:"url"`
-					Width  int    `json:"width"`
-					Height int    `json:"height"`
-				} `json:"thumbnails"`
-			} `json:"avatar"`
-			Banner struct {
-				Thumbnails []struct {
-					URL    string `json:"url"`
-					Width  int    `json:"width"`
-					Height int    `json:"height"`
-				} `json:"thumbnails"`
-			} `json:"banner"`
-			VisitTracking struct {
-				RemarketingPing string `json:"remarketingPing"`
-			} `json:"visitTracking"`
-			SubscriberCountText struct {
-				SimpleText string `json:"simpleText"`
-			} `json:"subscriberCountText"`
-		} `json:"c4TabbedHeaderRenderer"`
-	} `json:"header"`
-	Metadata struct {
-		ChannelMetadataRenderer struct {
-			Title                string   `json:"title"`
-			Description          string   `json:"description"`
-			RssURL               string   `json:"rssUrl"`
-			ChannelConversionURL string   `json:"channelConversionUrl"`
-			ExternalID           string   `json:"externalId"`
-			Keywords             string   `json:"keywords"`
-			OwnerUrls            []string `json:"ownerUrls"`
-			Avatar               struct {
-				Thumbnails []struct {
-					URL    string `json:"url"`
-					Width  int    `json:"width"`
-					Height int    `json:"height"`
-				} `json:"thumbnails"`
-			} `json:"avatar"`
-			ChannelURL       string `json:"channelUrl"`
-			IsFamilySafe     bool   `json:"isFamilySafe"`
-			VanityChannelURL string `json:"vanityChannelUrl"`
-		} `json:"channelMetadataRenderer"`
-	} `json:"metadata"`
-	Topbar struct {
-		DesktopTopbarRenderer struct {
-			CountryCode string `json:"countryCode"`
-		} `json:"desktopTopbarRenderer"`
-	} `json:"topbar"`
-	Microformat struct {
-		MicroformatDataRenderer struct {
-			URLCanonical string `json:"urlCanonical"`
-			Title        string `json:"title"`
-			Description  string `json:"description"`
-			Thumbnail    struct {
-				Thumbnails []struct {
-					URL    string `json:"url"`
-					Width  int    `json:"width"`
-					Height int    `json:"height"`
-				} `json:"thumbnails"`
-			} `json:"thumbnail"`
-			SiteName           string   `json:"siteName"`
-			AppName            string   `json:"appName"`
-			AndroidPackage     string   `json:"androidPackage"`
-			IosAppStoreID      string   `json:"iosAppStoreId"`
-			IosAppArguments    string   `json:"iosAppArguments"`
-			OgType             string   `json:"ogType"`
-			URLApplinksWeb     string   `json:"urlApplinksWeb"`
-			URLApplinksIos     string   `json:"urlApplinksIos"`
-			URLApplinksAndroid string   `json:"urlApplinksAndroid"`
-			URLTwitterIos      string   `json:"urlTwitterIos"`
-			URLTwitterAndroid  string   `json:"urlTwitterAndroid"`
-			TwitterCardType    string   `json:"twitterCardType"`
-			TwitterSiteHandle  string   `json:"twitterSiteHandle"`
-			SchemaDotOrgType   string   `json:"schemaDotOrgType"`
-			Noindex            bool     `json:"noindex"`
-			Unlisted           bool     `json:"unlisted"`
-			FamilySafe         bool     `json:"familySafe"`
-			Tags               []string `json:"tags"`
-		} `json:"microformatDataRenderer"`
-	} `json:"microformat"`
-}
--- a/ytapi/ytapi_test.go
+++ b/ytapi/ytapi_test.go
@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-package ytapi
-
-import (
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
-)
-
-func TestChannelInfo(t *testing.T) {
-	info, err := ChannelInfo("UCNQfQvFMPnInwsU_iGYArJQ")
-	assert.NoError(t, err)
-	assert.NotNil(t, info)
-}