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I am looking to download entire playlists and/or channels from YouTube. I know I can do this with yt-dlp, but for the content I'm attempting to download, it requires me to pass some cookie settings to yt-dlp, which I believe involves first signing into YouTube, which I don't want to do.

My next thought was to see if I can accomplish the same task through Invidious. I can download individual videos through Invidious, but I don't see a way to download an entire playlist.

Is there any way of downloading an entire playlist (or channel) without signing in, through Invidious or some other tool?

Or if I'm misunderstanding the mechanic of passing a cookie to yt-dlp (like if there's a way of doing this without signing in), please let me know. Thank you!

At present, I have limited disk space for my media library, so occasionally I must purge content I've already watched or acquired long ago but never watched. I'm big into letting my winners run, so when choosing which content to purge, I want to just sort by Ratio in qBittorrent and start purging anything older than 30 days that isn't getting uploads. The problem is, more often than not I'm cross seeding the same content across multiple trackers, so although a specific torrent on a specific trackers may be performing poorly, that doesn't mean the same content isn't performing well on another tracker.

I know how to select, right click, and Copy > Name. Is there a way to export the grid view so that I can do some data manipulation in LibreCalc?

I've searched and stumbled upon this thread from over a year ago where it appears the OP is attempting something similar. I don't mind getting my hands dirty with the web UI and/or the API, but since I'm not a developer, I thought I'd check w/ the community before I go that route. Also, one of the commenters in the other thread that I linked mentions parsing the save data directly - are they talking about parsing the fastresume files or something else? Thanks!

I'm planning a NAS/media server build for general centralized storage + Jellyfin to stream my media library, which consists of a mix of AVC, HEVC, and AV1 encoded videos. I'll be watching on various devices, primarily on the living room TV w/ a Chromecast. The Chromecast is capable of playing AV1 videos (I know this b/c it says "direct playing" in the Jellyfin media info panel on my current setup).

Given that my Chromecast is capable of direct playing AV1 encodes, when I source the parts for my new server build, does my new server also need to be capable of AV1 transcoding or does this capability only matter if the client device doesn't support AV1 video? I ask because I'll possibly source my build from used parts, and the answer to this question may impact which generation Intel processors I focus on. I'm currently focusing on 12th gen i5-12400 b/c it has QSV capabilities and supports AV1, but if AV1 support isn't needed for my server, then I may look for older gens to save a few bucks. Thank you!

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| | ExpressVPN | British Virgin Islands (no data-retention laws) | KPMG ISAE 3000 Type I, Feb 2025 (ExpressVPN) | Split-tunnelling DNS leak disclosed Feb 2024 (patched) | Gold-standard. RAM-only fleet, annual audits, BVI jurisdiction. | | NordVPN | Panama | Deloitte 5th audit, Dec 2024 (NordVPN) | 2018 server breach – no logs leaked | Regular audits and positive breach outcome. | | Surfshark | Netherlands (9-Eyes) | Deloitte, Jan 2023 (Surfshark) | TunnelCrack Wi-Fi leak (Aug 2023) → patched in <7 days. | Strong audit hygiene but concerning jurisdiction. | | Proton VPN | Switzerland | Securitum, Apr 2024 (securitum.com) | N/A | Open-source clients + Swiss privacy laws. | | Mullvad | Sweden (14-Eyes) | Assured AB config audit 2023 | Swedish police raid Apr 18 2023 left empty-handed (Mullvad VPN) | Minimal-data design proven in the wild. | | Private Internet Access | USA (5-Eyes) | Deloitte, Apr 2024 (Private Internet Access) | Multiple US subpoenas produced no logs | Paper-trail-verified despite US HQ. | | CyberGhost | Romania (EU, outside Eyes) | Deloitte, May 2024 (CyberGhost VPN) | N/A | Second audit boosts trust. | | TunnelBear | Canada (5-Eyes) | Cure53 7th audit, Dec 2023 (TunnelBear: Secure VPN Service) | N/A | Longest unbroken audit streak. | | Windscribe | Canada (5-Eyes) | Cure53 server image audit 2022 | 2025 Greek/Canadian court case upheld no-logs stance (Tom’s Guide) | Policy tested – passed. | | Hotspot Shield | USA (5-Eyes) | Performance/security review by AV-Test only; no dedicated no-logs audit (vpnMentor) | AV-TEST performance audit only; no no-logs audit to date. (CVE Details) | Speed king, privacy laggard. |

Archived links:

• https://archive.ph/pjPQz
• https://ghostarchive.org/archive/rLAGu

So the twist is that many users are reporting errors during the registration process. They aren't receiving the activation email. When they try to register again, the page says an account already exists. When they try resetting their password, they don't receive the reset password email, either. If anyone successfully registers, please report back in this thread how you did it.

Emuwarez is a Spanish private torrent tracker for Movies and TV.

Stats:

• Movies: 1311 Torrents
• Series: 644 Torrents
• Users: 3506 (2820 active users)
• Seeds: 7950
• Leechers: 105
• Total Uploads: 202.6 TB
• Total Downloads: 188.03 TB

Global Freeleech active while registrations are open.

Torrenteros is a Spanish Castilian and Latino tracker for movies and series.

Stats:

• Movies Category 4150
• TV Category 1090
• HD 5201
• SD 39
• Total Torrents 5240
• Total Torrents Size 30.27 TiB

Users:

• All Users 3079 = Active Users 880
• Disabled Users 24
• Pruned Users 1089
• Banned Users 0
• Users active today 150
• Users active this week 369
• Users active this month 652

Peers:

• Seeders 10787
• Leechers 16 Total 10803

Total Traffic:

• Real Total Upload 163.91 TiB
• Real Total Download 150.67 TiB
• Real Total Traffic 314.58 TiB
• Credited Total Upload 179.03 TiB
• Credited Total Download 43.8 TiB
• Credited Total Traffic 222.83 TiB

Can't speak from experience, but everything I've read about this tracker is that if you could pick only one, this should be it. Get in while you can.

Invitation Code: DIVEINTOTL

New users will get 15 GB of upload to help you start your journey.

Stats: • ⁠⁠Torrents Total: 2,275,204 • ⁠Torrents Active: 928,740 • ⁠Torrents Dead: 1,346,464

YOiNKED is open for registration for an undetermined amount of time. They are relatively new (started in 2024) compared to some of the other PTs posted in this community.

Genre: General (music, games, apps, movies, tv shows , books etc)

Stats:

• Torrents: Total Torrents 17,722
• Total Torrents Size 277 TiB
• Users All Users 3,945
• Active Users 3,818
• Peers Seeders 26,630
• Leechers 169
• Total 26,799
• Traffic Total Traffic Real Total Upload 515.17 TiB
• Real Total Download 467.7 TiB
• Real Total Traffic 0.96 PiB

Rules:

• HnR: Currently there are no requirements for HNR’s.
• Inactivity: You must log in to the website or the tracker must register activity from your Announce URL once every 90 days or your account will be disabled.
• Ratio Requirement: 0.7
• VPNs: Allowed

I'm in the midst of a migration to a new Linux distro and I'm stuck on restoring my qBittorrent setup from my previous install. Both environments are desktop versions of Linux - previously Bazzite, switching to Debian.

Prior to wiping the OS drive that had Bazzite on it, I had backed up my BT_data and config folders to a separate data drive. After installing Debian, I've copied my BT_data and config folders back to the right place on the new OS, however the issue I'm running into now is that when I open qBittorrent for the first time, all my torrents say Missing Files. This checks out seeing as the paths are slightly different, /run/media/oldusername/data instead of just /media/newusername/data. I started doing a force re-check on all my torrents and realized it'll take a very long time seeings as I have 6 TB of data to re-check.

I did a "find and replace" in all the config files to update the default save paths and the save paths for all my categories, but that wasn't enough.

Has anyone else gone through a qBittorrent migration and run into this problem? If so, how did you overcome it? Any other tips I should try?

I'm thinking of going back to Bazzite just to see if I can replicate the paths and get qBittorrent to recognize all my files again without having to re-check everything. I might also try setting up sym links to duplicate the original paths from the Bazzite install. I think these two approaches might be faster than re-checking my whole library. I am a tad concerned about getting hit with HnR's on some of my trackers since I've been offline for about 24 hours now. And I did not do a full backup of my previous OS (lmaoooo), so there's nowhere for me to go but forward. Thanks in advance for your help!

Seedpool.org [SP] is an 11 month old general private tracker. We are briefly opening our doors because everybody else is doing it, so why can't we.

What we offer:

• 0-Day uploads of everything. (~1500 uploads per day)
• Extremely fast TV show pre times.
• Everything is unrar'ed.
• Immunity from HnRs with seedpool > 250GB
• Freeleech everything with seedpool > 1TB
• iNTERNAL seedpool releases.

Latest unit3d platform upgraded with a rust based tracker software. Full integration with the very latest discourse forums. Private persistent Lounge chat instances for all our members to stay connected to IRC 24/7 without the need for a client.

Team of house uploaders who conform to strict rules to ensure consistent quality for all posts.

Live requests, seedpoint (BON) gambling in IRC casino games. Or get points simply for idling in chat.

Lively community of helpful members, always folks in #seedpool to ask questions to, or shoot the shit, or roll a d20 with.

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| | 101,390 TV Shows: | 18,196 All: | | 46,009 Movies: | 16,980 Active: | | 4,473 4K Movies | 1,735 Today: | | 19,801 BoxSets: | 4,102 Week: | | 139,702 Music: | 6,731 Month: | | 9,286 Anime: | 20 Pruned: | | 8,410 PC Games: | 7 Banned: |

Country: Latin America

Genre: Racing & Motorsports

Statistics:

All Users: 3377 | Active Users: 2943 | Seeders: 10004 | Leechers: 74 | Total: 10078 | Torrents: 3343 | Torrents Size: 28.15 TiB

Additional Information: it's focused in high quality video HD and 4K with Latino, Castellano and Multi-Audio torrents for Worldwide users. Please apply only if you are really a motorsports fan and you intent to use the tracker.

LST is open for applications for their three-year anniversary. I believe they'll stay open until Fri Aug 1 @ midnight UTC.

Rules:

• Seeding: You must seed downloaded torrents at least for 3 days as soon as you downloaded more than 10% of a torrent. Regardless of your ratio. The seedtime starts counting as soon as you have 100% downloaded. You do not have to seed your torrent 24/7, but you must fill the required seed time within 21 days after downloading. Completed requests needs to be seeded for 10 days!
• Inactivity: Accounts get automatically disabled after 90 days of no activity, activity is seen as either logging in to the site or seeding at least 1 torrent. Certain classes have a perk preventing being disabled due to inactivity, check class perks for these. Once disabled you get an e-mail with a link to re-activate your account by logging back in. Accounts get soft deleted 120 days after being disabled.
• Ratio Requirement: 0.4
• VPNs: Yes

Stats:

• Total Users: 10,998
• Active Users: 4,662
• Total Torrents: 81,823 (Alive: 75,449 | Dead: 6,406)
• Total Content Size: 1.6 PiB
• Total Peers: 431,918
• Seed Size: 9.34 PiB
• Total Traffic: 14.8 PiB (real)

ETA link to archived Reddit thread.