# Owez/yark

OSINT for YouTube made simple.

Repository: https://github.com/Owez/yark
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/yark
Homepage: https://pypi.org/project/yark/
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: archive, youtube-dl, osint, youtube
Last push: 2026-07-30T05:45:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 66/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 95, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1478, "days_push": 34, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2184, forks 71 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:23.593471+00:00)

## What it is
Yark is a Python CLI tool for archiving YouTube channels, downloading videos and accumulating metadata over time with change reports. It includes an offline web viewer with timelines, graphs, and timestamped notes for archived videos.

## Use cases
- archive an entire youtube channel locally
- track metadata changes on youtube videos over time
- keep deleted youtube videos after they're removed
- watch archived youtube videos offline
- osint research on youtube channels
- monitor youtube channel uploads with cron

## When to choose
- you need scheduled archiving built in (use cron instead)
- you need live streaming capture or comments scraping
- you want a GUI-only workflow

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, developer-tools, cli, data-science
- domain: osint, crawlers, media, self-hosted
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: youtube, archiving, youtube-dl, metadata-tracking, offline-viewer

## Member repositories
- Owez/yark (main) score 66

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:23.593471+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:48:12.650225+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Owez/yark (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:23.593471+00:00, sha cbe345e4d226)
  - homepage: https://pypi.org/project/yark/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:28:24.852344+00:00, sha 4b4e8fead74a)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/yark/json (fetched 2026-08-29T10:28:24.854736+00:00, sha 0fc7b99dbea5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.