Episode Details

How do you automatically detect new uploads on a YouTube channel, download them, and push them to cloud storage? This episode walks through the full pipeline — from polling YouTube's undocumented RSS feed to running yt-dlp with the right flags to uploading to Wasabi. We cover why serverless is the wrong tool for this job, when to use a VPS versus a home server, and why a simple cron job beats complex orchestration platforms like Airflow. Plus: the difference between backup and archival, and why boring infrastructure wins for reliability.