…ok - what’s wrong with MeTube?

Does YTZero fit?
github.com/Pelski/ytzero

It likely is overkill but may fit the bill with the ytdlp extension.

Not exactly what I had in mind but I’ll check it out, thanks!

MeTube

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…

Nothing

But someone already commented that

And provided a link for it

Does tubearchivist fit this bill?

There’s github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat

mainly for YouTube downloads though.

community-scripts.org/scripts/yt-dlp-webui

https://github.com/ArabCoders/ytptube

github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat

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.

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.

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

I’ve been using YouTube-DL

Tangential to your question… but I’m curious if any of these suggestions work with Jellyfin in a way that lets each user subscribe to YouTube channels?

My understanding is that almost all of these solutions will just drop YouTube videos in a directory and then they’ll be available to all users, rather than just the user who might be interested in that content?

I can say that TubeArchivist is essentially single-user. Multiple accounts on a single TA instance will share the same underlying library with a ./library_dir/channel_id/video_id.ext directory structure. You could run an instance per user for individual TA libraries but, last I looked, the Jellyfin plugin doesn’t support multiple TA instances so it still wouldn’t be able to get the metadata from any instance(s) other than the one it’s configured to. It was a requested feature, on the plugin’s GitHub, but I’m not sure if it’s actively being implemented. The only workaround I can think of for now would be using a shared TA library and then manually tagging the videos in JF and using parental controls to hide them. Billy won’t see vids tagged #SusieYT, Susie has #BillyYT added to her blacklist, etc.

Being unaware of pinchflat, I kinda ended up making my own.

Started off with a little app, the entirety of which was a button that, when pressed, took the link om my clipboard and downloaded the video into my Jellyfin folder. Then I got tired of having to keep it all updated across several different computers I use, so I turned it into something that runs in a docker container on my home server, that I can access through anything in my tailnet. Works beautifully.

If you don’t mind the slop, github.com/screwys/Igloo works really good for me :') I will set up automatic container releases later, building yt-dlp/gallery-dl from HEAD

If you want VPN support in docker containers, I was surprised his well gluetun works with any container.

Though ironically metube is the one thing I intentionally took out of the VPN, because too baby sites I cares about blocked it and I didn’t care about VPNs too in that use case.

Not what you are asking for, but maybe what you want: https://invidious.io/ is a youtube front end with some features that might or might not make it what you want.

I’m enjoying Pinchflat. I looked at TubeArchivist, but it’s a little heavyweight for me. Pinchflat is just one container.
It is a little broken - the refresh button and the page buttons don’t do anything - but I’m accessing the video through Jellyfin so it’s not a problem.

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.

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.

@GatesMcBalmer

https://github.com/alexta69/metube

Although I wish the plugin for the browser didn’t keep getting worse. It used to be it would just work in the background, then it would appear and show it was doing something and apparently today you now have to click send to Metube to make it work at all. For some reason they are making it more and more intrusive and it feels like enshittification is probably coming because there aren’t a lot of reasons to force your app into peoples faces other than showing them ads.