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One solution is to:

(1) make a list of channels;

(2) learn to use YouTube-DL:

https://youtube-dl.org/

(3) have a script that auto-runs the YouTube-DL script

(4) then drop videos watched input a watched folder; generate a spreadsheet and columns to note who has watched watch and filepath; create a basic website; etc.

— easy to do, used to do it when I knew I would have no or bad internet.



Out of curiosity, do creators get a view-count increment from youtube-dl? (or its superior successor, yt-dlp?)


No idea, easy enough to test with a private link though if you really want to know.




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