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PinchFlat: Youtube download manager and library, integrates with Jellyfin and Kodi

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Seems like a fairly mature and well maintained project. Can be fired up in DevContainer for hacking.

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It's sad how self contained now means "only" one docker image
Does it support sponsor block? Like cut out the sponsor sections from the downloaded videos?
- yup
  
  Nice thanks. I’ll try setting it up later then
Spun it up. Works great. Thank you so much
How does this differ from tune archivist?
- Guessing it's not a dead/halted project?
  
  Is tube archivist dead?! I just discovered it and I'm loving it!
- It does name management on the files for other players. Such as plex, emby, jellyfin, or kodi. About all I see that's any special here.
  
  Edit: seems to also do some metadata magic for plex at the very least to make it somewhat usable.
Only thing I'm missing is the ability to only download a subset of videos from a channel. There is a workaround by making a playlist but I believe that requires a Google account.
- Yah, I think that's what the author suggests as well. Unfortunate, maybe make a feature request or a PR.
- TubeSync has a regex filter for this
- Only other alternative I can see is a custom script that it supports with some gnarly allow list
Is Plex support in the cards?
- The readme says "First-class support for media center apps like Plex, Jellyfin, and Kodi"
- It already has Plex support but OP didn't feel like mentioning it
  
  Plex has boundary issues.
  
  Well... plex support in that it can chuck files into a structure that plex understands. It doesn't seem to notify plex to rescan libraries...
Damn I've been looking for something just like this, but my setup doesn't use docker.
- I've had all my servers running on my personal Windows machine, and I've been planning to move them to a dedicated Linux machine, as well as move to Linux on my PC. Part of that involved containerizing my whole setup to make the move easier. There's a script listed in Jellyfin docs that helps you migrate your setup. Itzs a bit involved if you're coming from Windows but very doable. Very easy if you're already on Linux though.
  
  My media setup is on a Linux VPS configured with Swizzin community edition. I tried a bunch of docker-based projects over the years but could never quite get my head around it. A good friend of mine just redid his whole setup with docker tho, so maybe if/when mine breaks I'll give it another shot.
Nice. I am gonna give this a shot
How quickly those this flood your storage?

Currently I ran invidious in docker. The solution is … just okay, performance isn’t great. But at least you only stream whatever you pick for watching.

I only follow around 15 channels. For simplicity 10 video are added daily to my subscription feed.

Are there privacy concerns with this solution. This together with ad blocking were my main drivers for invidious.
- you can define a retention time for sources (=channels) so you can somewhat limit storage usage.
Does it support logging in to YouTube to have access to purchased content, premium content, subscribers-only content, etc?
- Since it uses yt-dlp which supports cookies, I would guess it does or it will soon. Not sure about how yt handles "purchased" content, but the cookies work for age restricted videos at least.
Does that jellyfin compatibility work for Emby?
- It creates nfo files which emby can read.
  
  Awesome.
- It should be fine, it’s not a direct integration for plex at least, but rather it formats the files as MP4 so they can be read correctly.
I have been looking for something just like this, thanks

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