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Download a YouTube channel automatically.
Follow a channel or playlist once and every new upload lands in its own folder — as video or MP3 — without you checking back. Here's how it works, what it costs, and the do-it-yourself route.
What "Follow" does
Follow a YouTube channel, a YouTube playlist or a Spotify playlist, and PurffleGrab checks it on a schedule. Anything added after you followed it downloads on its own — in the format you chose, into its own folder — and you get a notification. Videos that were already there are left alone, unless you ask for the latest few.
| Free | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Follows | 1 | As many as you like |
| Checked | Once a day | Every hour |
| New items | Count toward your 67 a month | Unlimited |
If a Pro pass ends, your oldest follow keeps running on Free and the rest pause with a Pro badge. Nothing is deleted.
Set it up
Open Following
Click Following in the sidebar and paste a channel link (youtube.com/@name), a playlist link, or a Spotify playlist link.
Choose how to save
Pick Audio (MP3, FLAC…), Video, or your usual defaults. Under Also download now, choose nothing, or the latest 3, 5 or 10.
Leave it running
Checks run while PurffleGrab is open. Closing the window keeps it in the tray (menu bar on Mac), and Settings → Open PurffleGrab when the computer starts keeps it going after a restart. Check now runs a check on demand.
Following
The do-it-yourself way
If you'd rather script it, yt-dlp (the open-source engine inside PurffleGrab) can do this too. Its download archive remembers what's been fetched, so running the same command again only gets new videos:
$ yt-dlp --download-archive done.txt -x --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/@name/videos
Schedule that with cron, launchd or Task Scheduler and you have a free, unlimited version. PurffleGrab's Follow is the same idea with no setup: a list you can see, per-follow formats and folders, notifications, retries, and Spotify playlists.
Questions
Does it work with the app closed?
It needs PurffleGrab running, but not its window — closing the window with follows active keeps it in the tray. Quit it from the tray and checks stop until you open it again.
What if a video fails to download?
It's retried on the next checks. After a few failures in a row it's skipped so one bad video can't block the rest, and the error shows on the follow.
What happens when I hit 67 on Free?
New items wait, still marked as new, and download once your count resets — or right away with a Pro pass.
Can I follow a Spotify artist or album?
Playlists only for Spotify. Albums don't change, and artist pages aren't supported yet.
If I unfollow, are my files deleted?
No. Unfollow only stops future checks; everything already downloaded stays where it is.
Use it for media you have the right to
Following is ideal for your own channel, Creative Commons creators, podcasts and lectures you're allowed to keep offline. Downloading generally breaches YouTube's terms of service, and you're responsible for how you use it.