ytsync/local

Running ytsync locally

Requirements

• LBRY SDK (what do we actually need this for?)
• youtube-dl
• enough space to cache stuff

Process

Ensuring requirements are met

• claim channel if there isn't one yet
  • or easier, just error if no channel
• enough lbc in wallet?

Options to figure out what's already synced

• simplest: assume nothing is synced yet
• assume everything before some video is synced
• get/put sync info from Odysee by proving you have private key for channel
• tag videos as having been synced from youtube so we can ensure accuracy
• hardest: scan channel and try to match up which videos are not synced yet

Central DB

• prove you have a channel's private key to get info about that channel
• proper queue instead of sleeping for N minutes between syncs

Syncing a single video

• downloading it
• thumbnails
• metadata
• having enough LBC for publish(es)
• automated error handling
• getting a human involved for errors that can't be handled automatically
• reflecting

Continuous Sync

• running in background
• storing local state
• interactions with our central ytsync db
• dealing with yt throttling

Debugging

• dry-running the whole thing