I need something and hopefully i dont have to invent the wheel.
I want to subscribe to youtube channels and have new videos automatically detected and downloaded to local storage. Bonus points for jellyfin intergration but i can live without.
I know not too hard to rig something like this uo with youtube-dl but if there is an existing solution that would be amazing.
Anybody know?
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ytdl-sub is by far the lightest weight of all of them.
Yep, it’s what I use, though I remember having some difficulty with the initial setup, its been very reliable since.
You’re looking for TubeArchivist
TubeArchivist works well for me. It also has a metadata plugin for Jellyfin
Works great to convert certain channels to podcasts as well.
Damn that looks cool. I’m disappointed in how many projects are only for Docker though :(
Docker is a bit of a pain to learn but it really helps once you start figuring things out!
How would one connect this to jellyfin while preserving thumbnails etc?
Pinchflat allows to download and/or embed thumbnails and subtitles, as well as creates nfo files. I am using it together with Jellyfin and it works totally fine
It has options for providing metadata, thumbnails, etc for jellyfin automatically, by pulling the metadata from the youtube page.
Definitly look at pinchflat. Does exactly this. :) Easy to set up, and it runs so smoothly !
I moved from TubeArchivist to Pinchflat. Very good.
Why the switch?
It’s much more lightweight, handles Plex integration much better and automatically cuts out ads, promotions, etc.
Any way to get YouTube’s recommendations as well, and not just subscriptions? I mainly watch stuff from my recommendations, which are usually exactly what I want to see. Been honing my alg for decades. 😅
Not with this setup, no. I specifically didn’t want The Algorithm™ involved.
Alright, cool. Thanks for replying!
