I’m looking for a server I can host in my home that has a simple ui where I can put in URLs for download and have them all show up on my Jellyfin. Bonus if there is VPN support.
Update: Thanks to everyone for the suggestions! Several projects to check out: youtube-dl, pinchflat, ytptube, metube, tubearchivist, yt-dlp-webui, ytzero, igloo, youtarr
Pinchflat isn’t being maintained and has a few annoying bugs already.
Someone was working on a “community maintained” fork that had a bunch of fixes and new features and were also working on a hard fork with even more features but then last week they abruptly overwrote the history of the repo so there’s nothing but a script to migrate back to the main pinchflat. They also deleted all the packages which means docker pull now errors if you have their version. Thankfully someone had a fork of that one saved but the person who saved the fork doesn’t have the programming skills to continue development so we’re back to it not being maintained.
Interesting. I’m still running the original but I’ll take a look at this fork. I’ve been looking for a new hobby project.
I’d like to second pinchflat. It’s great. I have it set up to monitor certain channels but also have it set up to monitor a playlist. Anything I add to the playlist gets auto downloaded. I don’t even have to log into it really it just works.
Dunno, you’re referring to your one downvote? I use Metube as well, works pretty well for me so far.
The score was zero when I asked. I thought maybe there was something problematic with it…
Anybody knows a way to automate cookie passing to the manager? Youtube denies access if cookies are not copied from a valid browser with a youtube account :-(
If you’re using Firefox, then there are a plethora of cookie copiers. I used one, don’t know which now, a while back. Seemed to function for my purposes.
Don’t forget to check out Youtarr. I think it hits all the targets. You can do channels, playlists or individual videos. It has an option for a proxy URL to use to download which I believe can be set up with a self-hosted VPN. And it formats and sends things directly to Jellyfin.
Could they not think of an original name? Calling it YouTube-dl is just unnecessarily lazy and confusing. This appears to be mostly a docker image of yt-dlp, which is itself a fork of youtube-dl.
Can’t get any simpler than the terminal, can you? I just paste links into the terminal after a yt-dlp command.
Sure, but OP specifically asked for a “manager.” Plus typing it out means looking up flags and switches each time
I went one step further and used python to handle the flags and what not
Just gotta add each url / playlist to a text file, then run the python script
But seeing all these GitHub’s with much more elegant solutions is pretty cool
