Barracuda@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Looking for a way to download livestream VODs as they happen where they will likely be privated.English
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9 months agoYou didn’t specify a streaming platform. Assuming you’re referring to twitch vods I would actually recommend using twitchpipe instead of something like yt-dlp as another user recommended. Reason being is that twitchpipe comes with a shell script that lets twitchpipe monitor a twitch channel for when it goes live, automatically starts recording the vod, and stops when the stream ends - which I find more ideal for putting it on a vps and letting it do its thing.
My experience has been pretty good. In terms of functionality they both effectively do the same thing, but the one thing that makes Resilio Sync slightly nicer than syncthing is that I can just give out key for directory that I want to share - similar to a torrent magnet hash. Whereas with syncthing I have to connect and allow multiple devices together in order to sync between them - with Resilio Sync I just give out key and device can start downloading/seeding content. That may not be a big deal if you have a few personal devices, but if you’re distributing files with a number of devices you don’t know (as you typically do when torrenting) then you can just leave key out for anyone who wants the content.
As an added bonus, compared to a traditional bit torrent client, Resilio Sync allows you to update the content in a given directory and the users in the swarm will also get the new content without any additional work.
So far myself and a small private community are using it to archive about 2.5Tib worth of data that continues to get regularly updated - never once had an issue.