I was doing that for a while, but I want to make sure that my ... • Aaron Parecki

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Jonathan LaCour https://cleverdevil.io/profile/cleverdevil • Jan 8
I have a small number of YouTube channels and creators that I enjoy following, but I really dislike the experience of using YouTube on the web and on iOS. So, I whipped up a script that automatically downloads YouTube content and adds it to my Plex server. So much better!

I was doing that for a while, but I want to make sure that my views are counted so that the creators get the credit (and ad revenue) and I'm not sure that downloading it that way still counts it.

I do pay for Premium so I can download in the YouTube app for offline watching, which does contribute to the view count.

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Wed, Jan 8, 2020 12:24pm -06:00

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Have you written a response to this? Let me know the URL:
- Jonathan LaCour cleverdevil.io/profile/cleverdevil
  
  It turns out that youtube-dl has a "--mark-watched" parameter that I believe will track the download as a view :)
  
  Wed, Jan 8, 2020 9:02pm +00:00

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