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Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

#41

I don't understand one thing...why do you need to host it on a server? It can be just a standalone app on windows/Linux/mac. I recently just started using yt-dlp and have thought of making a simple app. Should I though? Are there any alternatives in existence of this kind?

Celluloid streams using yt-dlp automatically if you ask it to open a supported URL. Parabolic is a purpose-made downloader that uses yt-dlp.

https://flathub.org/apps/details/io.github.celluloid_player....

https://flathub.org/apps/org.nickvision.tubeconverter

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

#43

I don't understand one thing...why do you need to host it on a server? It can be just a standalone app on windows/Linux/mac. I recently just started using yt-dlp and have thought of making a simple app. Should I though? Are there any alternatives in existence of this kind?

Freetube is another one.

https://freetubeapp.io/

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

#44

I don't understand one thing...why do you need to host it on a server? It can be just a standalone app on windows/Linux/mac. I recently just started using yt-dlp and have thought of making a simple app. Should I though? Are there any alternatives in existence of this kind?

you host it on the server which has a raid array and is/gets backedup vs a laptop that could get stolen or lost. the point is to have a copy of the videos that can't be deleted/lost so having that on a loseable laptop wouldn't satisfy that requirement

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

#45
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"Self-hosted" ... on something that very much used to be a fairly simple desktop app... JDownloader anyone? Or yt-dlp ????

and then your laptop gets stolen/lost and the video is deleted from YouTube. maybe some people want an archive that's theirs that won't be deleted it edited?

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

#46

Consider also Tube Archivist. If you just want to download a few videos it's overkill, but I use it to archive and index technical channels I like. It can do advanced full text and metadata searches on the transcription/subtitles as well as comments (and title and description). Much better than what alphabet provides, annoyingly. https://www.tubearchivist.com/

How does it compare to PeerTube? Would be cool if these instances could be federated, ActivityPub or something similar.

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

#47
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For a large group of people, the vast majority of their computing and consumption is done apart from a desktop or laptop. Something like this makes perfect sense in a mobile-first world.

Those people don't have servers, docker, and hosting. Besides that, Invidious has a download button for audio and video. As far as apps there's very simple mobile apps: Tubular and newpipe both support downloading, and ytdlnis and seal are explicitly for downloading. I'm sure there's a dozen more in F-Droid.

> Those people don't have servers, docker, and hosting.

In my experience they do. Do you never use a mobile for browsing/videos/etc?

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

#48

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I totally agree. The idea of running a server application in Docker and then firing up a browser for something like this just seems so... round-about and alien to me! Is this the direction software development is really going?

It's not the most elegant, but for cross platform, a web app and container are the easiest UI and deployment methods.

So what’s the actual goal?

- easy to deploy (developers problem) - easy to use (everybody else’s problem)

There’s like ~1 dev and >x.000’s of users, so…

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

#49

I don't understand one thing...why do you need to host it on a server? It can be just a standalone app on windows/Linux/mac. I recently just started using yt-dlp and have thought of making a simple app. Should I though? Are there any alternatives in existence of this kind?

you host it on the server which has a raid array and is/gets backedup vs a laptop that could get stolen or lost. the point is to have a copy of the videos that can't be deleted/lost so having that on a loseable laptop wouldn't satisfy that requirement

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Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My generation dropped the ball on teaching computer literacy

Curious if this is at millennials for not teaching the next generation(s) or at genz/alpha for not teaching themselves.

I think it's a little of: generations being more disconnected than before, cars and other items being more complicated and less easily repairable (remember you used to pop out a battery on your phone), a culture of buying cheap and replacing instead of taking the time, energy, and learning to fix.

I think looking at the prevalance of something like DoorDash delivering fast food to people shows you how strange culture has gotten.

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