Hello and welcome! In this video we look at how we can save the Kla.tv broadcasts via the server access
on our own hard disk, sorted by date or also by topic.
I will also show you how to save different qualities in the same folder structure and, last but not least, how
to search for keywords in downloaded documents to find specific programs. So, let's get started!
Set up server access
I am on the Kla.tv/save page and select "Server access" and here I now have the different qualities
for video, audio and I can also select documents.
Multiple selection is not possible, but I will show you in the next chapter how we can copy
several qualities into the same folder structure.
Depending on the selection, the required size on my hard disk, i.e. the required storage space, now changes here on the right.
I'm going to select 1080p here. If I select a lower quality, you can see that the storage space required here is less.
I now choose 1080p because that fits exactly on my 2TB hard disk.
Now I need the FileZilla software for the next step.
That's what this note says, so I'll click on it here.
And the FileZilla download page opens. I select the first link shown here and download FileZilla.
Once FileZilla has been downloaded, I can open the installation file using this button.
Then go to next, next, next, next. And install.
And open at the end by clicking on "Finish".
If FileZilla is open, I can move my browser window over here to the right side.
And let's switch back to kla.TV/save, then I have FileZilla on the left and the browser on the right.
Now I just have to copy this information here on the right: "Server path", "User" and "Password" to FileZilla.
This works with this button here "Server"; I copy here into Server, user into user name, and password is exactly the same.
And then I can go to "Connect". Do not save passwords.
I can simply confirm the window that now appears with OK.
And then I see the Kla.TV server with the file structure on the right.
Here I can now see the folder structure organized by year and month.
When I click into a year here, I see the months here.
If I click in here, I can see all the programs of this month.
This means that I can now download only the programs for a specific time period.
I now navigate to my hard disk on the left.
And here I can now create a new folder by right-clicking, and then: "Create directory". I call it KlaTV backup.
I can now save my desired years there using drag & drop.
For example, I drag the year 2024 into my KlaTV backup folder. Now the download process starts here.
Depending on the internet speed, it can sometimes take a very long time to download a full year.
You can now see the long list of tasks to be completed here.
It is worth limiting the Internet speed for FileZilla a little so that you can still use the Internet at the same time.
The next chapter will explain how to do this.
If you prefer to save the programs for a specific topic, go one level further up in the
folder structure. These are the three points.
And then we have sorted all the videos here by topic.
For example, I could download everything about Bill Gates there.
Here are all the videos that deal with this topic.
The disadvantage of backing up individual topics is that more and more videos are added and you then have to
make this comparison with the hard disk again and again.
This is not the case with chronological downloading.
All you have to do is download the latest version and you have a complete archive.
If this is too complicated for you with this server access and FileZilla, you can also simply select the video list on
klatv/backup and then select the desired quality as usual.
And clicking on "Show files" opens a list view of the years.
However, I cannot download the entire folder here, only individual files.
I have to go to the monthly folder. And there I can now download the individual programs by clicking on
them. However, this is laborious and time-consuming.
Therefore, the variant with FileZilla would be recommended, especially if you want to build up an entire Kla.tv archive.
Determine storage requirements
Kla.tv only shows the total size of all files according to my selection. In this case around 1.8 TB.
But if someone only wants to download a part, e.g. only certain years or even months, how can he
know how much storage space is needed for this.
I can see all this in the fileinfo.txt files that are on each level.
In the months, in the years and even in the topics.
I will now go back to the years and take a closer look at this file.
By right-clicking "view" and "edit" I can open this file and can now see the size of the individual subfolders.
Here I can now see the individual year folders listed with their respective sizes.
When I get to 2024, for example, 233 GB.
All months can also be viewed here with their required storage space.
I can now decide better what and how much I want to back up and whether I have the storage space I need.
Limit speed
If you want to use the Internet in addition to downloading via FileZilla, it is advisable to limit the speed for FileZilla.
To do this, you first need to know your own Internet speed, which you can check at speedtest.net, for example.
Here I first go to the settings and change the unit of measurement to Kbps.
So if mbps is highlighted here, then change it to kbps.
I can then start the measurement by clicking on "Go".
Once the measurement is complete, I can see my download and upload speed.
For FileZilla, for example, I could now make 10% of these data transfer rates available.
To do this, simply leave out the last number and enter the 4 numbers before it, in my case with FileZilla.
In FileZilla, I go to "Transfer", "Speed limits", "Set".
Here I check the box "Activate speed limits" and enter the numbers here.
This is 8551 for download and 6043 for upload.
Confirm with OK and in addition to the download process via FileZilla you can also watch Kla.tv without any problems.
Download multiple qualities
If you want to download different video or audio qualities or even PDF documents, it would be disadvantageous if the files
belonging to the same program ended up in different folders.
It is therefore important to ensure that the file structure on the hard disk corresponds exactly to that on the Kla.tv server.
So if, for example, the 1080p quality was downloaded in 2008 and now I want to download the 360p quality from
the same year, then I must not change anything in the folder structure on the hard disk.
I now copy the connection data for 360p and paste it into FileZilla.
Now I take the 2008 folder again and drag it to where the 2008 folder is located on the
hard disk. This gives me the same substructure.
Now everything is copied and sorted correctly.
I can now see on my hard disk that the files belonging to the same programme have now ended up in the same folder.
I can now do the same with audio files or documents.
Search saved archive
What good is an archive if you can't search it?
The file names of the downloaded videos do not always reveal much about the content.
One way of searching the entire saved archive is now presented here.
This requires the free Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded at get.adobe.com/en/reader.
By right-clicking on a PDF file, then on "Open with Adobe Acrobat", I can open this PDF file in this software.
We then go to "File", "Advanced search" and then select "All PDF documents in" under "What should be
searched" and "Search folder" from the drop-down menu.
Now I can go to my hard disk and enter the folder with the Kla.tv backup.
If I now search for a keyword, such as "Great Reset" and click on "Search", all PDF documents
that I have saved are searched for this keyword.
I can now open the individual documents and the keyword is highlighted in color.
Certain documents contain the keyword more than once. This is also displayed here.
To find the document on my hard disk, I go to "File", "Document properties" and then see the
path where the file is saved under "Location".
By clicking on it, the Finder or Explorer opens in the right place and I can now see the document and, if
I have already downloaded it, the associated program.
This allows me to search my archive for certain keywords and find both the documents and
the corresponding programs on my hard drive.