lbry_channel_mirror

Tool to synchronize files from a lbry channel to a local directory.

My personal use case:

• I want to host my own videos on my own webserver.
• The videos are downloaded by this tool, from LBRY, into my webhosting directory.
• This tool keeps that directory up to date with the latest videos. If new videos are added to the channel, this tool downloads them.
• If I need to create a new web-host, I can run this script there, and all my videos will appear.
• All the video file names, along with the claim_ids, are stored in a single YAML file. This means that I can put the config file in a git repository, and thus have a permanent record of my list of videos, along with their LBRY locations.

Thank you to jessopb for coaching me on the LBRY SDK.

Download

Portable, standalone executables, for Linux and Windows, can be found on the release page

Build exe

Alternatively you can build your own executable for any platform that runs Python 3.7:

git clone https://github.com/EnigmaCurry/lbry-channel-mirror.git
cd lbry-channel-mirror
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py build_exe

After it builds, find the all-in-one executable file in the dist directory.

Usage

See command examples by running the builtin help:

lbry_channel_mirror --help

or see the help for any subcommand:

lbry_channel_mirror resolve --help

Downloading all channel content

lbry_channel_mirror will only download the claims that are listed in your lbry_channel_mirror.yaml file as claims. But you don't have to create this list by hand, the fetch command will do that for you.

Inside the directory you want the files to download to, initialize lbry_channel_mirror with the name of the channel you wish to mirror:

lbry_channel_mirror init --channel @EnigmaCurry

This creates a config file (lbry_channel_mirror.yaml) with the following:

channel: '@EnigmaCurry#9e2f40110d9f121b1caa0661133bac353ef66a71'

The tool can search for all the claims for this channel and automatically fill your config file:

lbry_channel_mirror fetch

After running fetch, your lbry_channel_mirror.yaml file now contains all of the claims for the channel you're mirroring:

channel: '@EnigmaCurry#9e2f40110d9f121b1caa0661133bac353ef66a71'
claims:
  045fd2680317e998e87944e4fb875ceb4d3b8f3c:
    file_name: No Minor Sea.mp4
  07106ed49e2264e6a766c80996d1e8b719cd5b60:
    file_name: Docetic Bodhisattva (his noetic body sought ya).mp4
  824e84c720c9968493aaf568f053f230c7e282cb:
    file_name: Waiting for Nothing - The Iridule.mp4
  9fb0396bc923f8f68c549cac6907295933bd37df:
    file_name: Akashic Diffusion - Carbon Collector at Emerald Station.mp4
  e49282c173d55ec33da0f85a3322fcf60b107240:
    file_name: EnigmaCurry - 2017 - Aeolian Random (2).mp3

Now run lbry_channel_mirror pull to download the files to the same directory (or whatever directory that contains the config passed with --config).

Remember, all streams must be listed in the config file first, before they can be pulled. You can edit the config file by hand, or search for new claim_ids and add them automatically, by running fetch again.