I’m trying to be more mindful about my YouTube consumption, there are a lot of quality channels out there, but sticking to “subscriptions” is difficult when the YouTube app on my TV has so much distracting recommended content and shorts thrown at you, so I’d like to have a way to auto-download the content from specific channels to play later via Plex. I actually have YT Premium but plan on putting the money into the Patreons of my most-watched creators instead.

Features I’m looking for:

  • Automated downloading of new videos from specific channels
  • Ability to ignore/skip shorts
  • SponsorBlock if possible
  • Vimeo (and others) integration would be a huge plus too.
  • A way to easily add videos to a download queue manually (browser extension or something) for when I come across an interesting video in the wild" by someone I’m not subscribed to/don’t want to subscribe to.

Things I’ve looked into:

  • TubeSync - returns 500 errors anytime it’s indexing, which it does every day, meaning setup is very tedious. It’s also frustrating to configure for every single channel independently, but (ostensibly) does what I’m looking for? I think?
  • TubeArchivist - Try as I might I just cannot get this up and running on CasaOS/Docker. Seems nice, but also looks like overkill for my use case.
  • YoutubeDL-Material - Struggling to get this installed too, but it also doesn’t seem to have additional features like SponsorBlock.

Anything I’m missing or are these basically the main options for now? Would love something as simple as Sonarr.

  • Pete90@feddit.deEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Tubearchivist works great for me. Downloader, database and player, all in one. Even integration with jellyfin is possible, not sure about plex though.

  • deleted@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    https://github.com/Tzahi12345/YoutubeDL-Material

    It does support sponsorblock. You need to add a tag within the command and it’ll apply it to all new videos.

    Also, if you use docker, I can help you with the installation.

    1. Download this file: https://github.com/Tzahi12345/YoutubeDL-Material/blob/master/docker-compose.yml

    2. Go to terminal and navigate to the folder where you downloaded the file.

    3. Copy this code and hit enter: docker-compose pull

    4. Copy this code and hit enter: docker-compose up

    5. Wait for 15 minutes and in the container log

    If successful, it should say “HTTP(S): Started on port 17443” or something similar. This tells you the container-internal port of the application.

    Try both ports and see if it works 8998, 17442