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 🙏

  • @pigers1986BEnglish
    1•7 months ago

    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"