使用 Homebrew, MacPorts 安装 tubeup

项目链接

• 主页

命令和别名

• tubeup

项目历史

The README traces the project lineage to emijrp's original `youtube2internetarchive.py` in 2012 and Matt Hazinski's 2015 fork, with Bibliotheca Anonoma later designing tubeup for archiving single videos, playlists, or accounts to the Internet Archive.

Official tags show early 0.0.x releases in 2016 and a later date-style 2026 release. The current README credits contributors for moving from an external script to library calls, switching Tubeup into a PyPI repository, adding variable collections, rebasing toward an object-oriented library, and improving download/upload stability.

采用历史

tubeup's adoption is narrower than general-purpose video downloaders because it is tied to Internet Archive upload workflows. The README explicitly says third-party package managers such as Homebrew, MacPorts, apt, and yum are not supported, even though the supplied package facts show Homebrew and MacPorts entries.

Its practical niche is preservation work: the README discusses Archive.org accounts, upload privileges, collection metadata, Community Video defaults, collection-owner/admin requirements, and warnings against dumping entire channels into public collections without coordination.

使用方式

The supported workflow is to install with pipx, configure Internet Archive credentials via `ia configure`, and run `tubeup <url>` for URLs supported by yt-dlp. The README documents metadata flags, cookies, proxy use, download archives, output templates, custom download directories, and checking uploaded items under an Archive.org user page.

The README strongly recommends Linux or another POSIX system, preferably a VPS with enough RAM and storage, and it warns users not to use Tubeup for live-video archiving because yt-dlp live handling is described as unsuitable for archival use in that context.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

tubeup is interesting to package users precisely because it is awkward to package: it sits on fast-moving yt-dlp behavior, Internet Archive credentials, ffmpeg, Deno for YouTube extractor support, and long-running upload failure handling.

For the package-nerd niche, it documents a real-world conflict between distribution convenience and upstream support policy: Homebrew can package it, but upstream tells users to use pipx and keep tubeup, yt-dlp, internetarchive, and Deno current.

时间线

• 2012: README credits emijrp's `youtube2internetarchive.py` as the original ancestor.
• 2015: README credits Matt Hazinski's fork with numerous improvements.
• 2016: Early official 0.0.x tubeup tags published.
• 2026: README copyright and date-style release tag show continuing maintenance.

Related projects

• yt-dlp is the downloader backend named throughout the README.
• internetarchive is the Python module and `ia configure` credential path used for Archive.org uploads.
• youtube2internetarchive.py is credited as the original ancestor of the project.

来源

• current_curation.credentials-file-location
• https://github.com/bibanon/tubeup#readme
• official git tags from https://github.com/bibanon/tubeup
• source_facts.package-manager