README.md

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title: The Collector
emoji: 🔥
colorFrom: gray
colorTo: red
sdk: gradio
sdkVersion: 5.31.0
app_file: app.py
pinned: true
license: mit

TheCollector

A Telegram Bot that downloads videos or video segments using yt-dlp.

Usage:

1. Install necessary libraries: pip install python-telegram-bot yt-dlp
2. Get a Bot Token from BotFather on Telegram.
3. Replace "YOUR_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN" with your actual token.
4. Run the script: python your_script_name.py
5. Send commands to your bot on Telegram: /download /download [START_TIME] /download [START_TIME] [END_TIME] (Time format: HH:MM:SS or MM:SS)

Notes:

• Telegram has a file size limit for bots sending files (usually 50MB) but this works around that. This bot attempts to download a suitable format but might fail for extremely large videos.
• Ensure ffmpeg is installed if yt-dlp requires it for merging formats or conversions. (yt-dlp often bundles it or can use a system-wide ffmpeg).

Tasks:

• Deployment
  • Set up docker first. ✅
  • Deploy to the cloud
• Switch to using a subprocess ✅
• Test to see which argument for constraining size works for youtube videos. 🗑️
• Fix name extraction from file info
• get around size limit (https://stackoverflow.com/a/77654947) ✅
• confirm that timestamped URLs do not break the bot
• integrate cobalt as a fall back for short video download. Maybe replax instagram download altogether with it.