Replace YouTube reddit / selfhosted ---------------------------------------------------------------------- fab_space 路 2023-11-29 06:19 Helo dear selfhosters, after more than a decade of partnerships and premium account I decided to free up my pocket about YouTube premium account (and also removed any partnership I had with evil nerds out there). Now the question: I would like to download and watch my favs and I can selfhost but I鈥檓 wonder which is the flawlessly solution to implement. - Jellyfin + some tube plugin - Tubearchivist + some client - youtubedl + cron and emby - others I鈥檓 ignoring.. Can you point me in the good direction? I have good experience as selfhoster and also in pro enterprise stuff then I can do everything needed to achieve the mission. Any recommendation is more than welcome. Needed features: - sync without rush some favs channels - sync all my channels (then i鈥檒l close them.. i managed 10 channels with 20K videos) - possibly watch remotely not just at home (i can proxy via vps and vpn if needed) - download and watch remotely offline via IOS All suggestions will win a beer in Genoa, Milan or Rome anytime, also remotely triggered 馃嵒 Base server will be a selfhosted Dell R630 with attached storage no problems computing and storage stuff. Max users predicted: 2. Thank You 馃檹 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Significant-Neat7754 路 2023-11-29 07:58 I have been thinking about this. The options right now are: 1. Tube Archivist (default option since this is what works best for most people) 2. Me Tube (my only problem with this is that it requires a reverse proxy and authelia for any user authentication) 3. Tube Sync (personally I have had trouble with downloading playlists through Tube Sync) Tube Archivist is not without its flaws though. It can't live track playlists for syncing. Say you add a playlist and then add videos to it. TA won't likely notice it. Tube Archivist works as it's own ecosystem and doesn't import metadata. So you'll have to download those yourself if you want to use the TA videos on something like Jellyfin. Or you could use their plugin (well, not a direct plugin of Jellyfin): [https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist- jf](https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist-jf) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Silencer306 路 2023-11-29 08:44 What kind of metadata are we looking for in YouTube videos? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Significant-Neat7754 路 2023-11-29 09:02 Video title basically. TA has its own naming scheme with number and letters (I think it's got something to do with video IDs). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lilolalu 路 2023-11-29 09:08 To watch stuff without ads and tracking, but still streaming, you can use clipious or newpipe on Android and android tv. If you want to replace the entire YouTube GUI with a agree selfhosted one, check out https://github.com/iv-org/invidious ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pigers1986 路 2023-11-29 09:45 im using yt-dlp with crontab and archive i.e. (execerpt from script): ```mkdir -p /share/_ANIME/_ANIME/Z_Download/Downloaded/yt_channels/DUST/ && cd /share/_ANIME/_ANIME/Z_Download/Downloaded/yt_channels/DUST/ && yt-dlp -N 4 --write-auto-sub --sub-lang "en,pl" --embed-metadata -i --restrict-filenames --add-metadata --embed-thumbnail --embed-subs --download-archive /exploit/logs/youtube_channels/DUST.log "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T08deT2tnf0&list=PL2X2odndvaIe-Fd- XVtE4LuRrwi0W1E_s&pp=iAQB"``` ---------------------------------------------------------------------- fab_space 路 2023-11-29 09:48 I done similar ty all guys 鉂わ笍 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0011001000110000 路 2023-11-29 13:18 If you haven't already, check out https://invidious.io/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- fab_space 路 2023-11-29 13:39 It looks promising!!! I鈥檒l do that tonite ty sir ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _armagheadon 路 2023-11-29 15:25 I use newpipe or libretube (doesnt always work good) on android, and freetube on pc. These work very well for me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- fab_space 路 2023-11-29 16:21 ty for this additional suggestion!! I started years ago with emby and youtube-dl crons but i鈥檓 happy to test all recently updated alternatives to find the one which fit best for my needs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- coveorder 路 2023-11-29 17:58 How does Invidious solve the download and organizational problem, when it is solely a front end to YouTube? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lilolalu 路 2023-11-29 17:59 The question is if you need to download the files if the reason to download them is to avoid ad breaks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- coveorder 路 2023-11-29 18:00 I see ---------------------------------------------------------------------- coveorder 路 2023-11-29 18:00 I see ---------------------------------------------------------------------- coveorder 路 2023-11-29 18:01 Understood ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Luigi311 路 2023-11-29 22:28 I鈥檝e been using grayjay by futo the organization that rossman runs and it鈥檚 been great for youtube. It also lets you use other services all in the same app but I don鈥檛 use any of those just youtube. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PhuriousGeorge 路 2023-11-30 02:22 Regarding metadata & TA, what you're referencing is the restrictive file-naming scheme. File names can only be the actual YT video IDs at the moment. All the actual metadata (title, description, likes, dislikes, comments, subtitles, etc) is in the TA ElasticSearch database. I don't care so much for the restricted naming myself, but until we get some solid code contributors to help with the edge-cases and maintenance, the primary dev has decided to simplify naming and work on other aspects of the tool. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dcgog 路 2023-11-30 05:22 Question- with these type of solutions are you just discovering new content by returning to YouTube? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- fab_space 路 2023-11-30 05:44 I can also replace YouTube music maybe. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lilolalu 路 2023-11-30 06:43 Never heard of it, sounds good. Unfortunately it doesn't work for me, since I am not interested in "Creators" but Content. But I guess a lot of people are curating their media by personality and not content subject. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Significant-Neat7754 路 2023-11-30 17:50 Right, of course. I didn't mean to sound ungrateful. Thank you for clarifying. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PhuriousGeorge 路 2023-12-01 01:07 No worries, it's always hard to gauge attitude on the interwebs. I tend to be a bit too blunt and straight-forward myself. Just want to share facts and hopefully get like-minded folks on-board.