stov/doc/description.rst

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DESCRIPTION
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DESCRIPTION
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Stov is a little tool which allows you to subscribe to channels (or search results within channels), playlists or search results on the video platform youtube. It then pulls all necessary data from the youtube API and saves it into it's internal database. This information can be used to automatically download videos contained in the defined subscriptions. For this functionality, the additional *youtube-dl* utility is needed. It is recommended that you use cron or another similar mechanism to periodically update video data and download new videos.

Since stov only uses read-only access to the youtube API, no developer key or youtube account is needed to use it.