I live off grid, no internet access. Once in a while I go to the library and run my scripts, which backs up video channels (youtube, bitchute, rumble, ...)

I lose a lot of time with large channels... because youtube-dl has to load all the pages... like:

[BitChuteChannel] thedavidknightshow: Downloading channel page 1
...
[BitChuteChannel] thedavidknightshow: Downloading channel page 194

The library blocks BitChute and rumble... so I have to torify those, which slows it down even more.

Since I have already downloaded the whole channel, how do I index the latest page(s) only?

Other tips to speed up the process are welcome too.

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If you already have the oldest files you can use --playlist-items or --playlist-end

For example:

yt-dlp playlist_url --playlist-end 30

Will only fetch the latest 1 or 2 pages. This also works on accounts or channels because channels are basically playlists of a specific kind

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