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’m wonder which is the flawlessly solution to implement.

  • Jellyfin + some tube plugin
  • Tubearchivist + some client
  • youtubedl + cron and emby
  • others I’m 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’ll 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 🍻

Base server will be a selfhosted Dell R630 with attached storage no problems computing and storage stuff. Max users predicted: 2.

Thank You 🙏

  • @lilolaluBEnglish
    2•7 months ago

    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 an ad free selfhosted one, check out

    https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

    • @Luigi311BEnglish
      1•7 months ago

      I’ve been using grayjay by futo the organization that rossman runs and it’s been great for youtube. It also lets you use other services all in the same app but I don’t use any of those just youtube.

      • @lilolaluBEnglish
        1•7 months ago

        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.