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Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by userbinator »

andix wrote: post #91

It's a bit puzzling to me, how many YouTube mirroring tools are available out there. If you're using something like that, what's your reason to download/archive the videos instead of just streaming them from YouTube? I get that sometimes it's great to archive a video in the case it get's deleted from YouTube, but in my case this very rarely happens. I watch the video and I'm done with it. If I can't re-watch it, this…

If you're using something like that, what's your reason to download/archive the videos instead of just streaming them from YouTube?

For me, the same reason people used VCRs, and I don't mean "copyright infringement" --- saving stuff to watch later or when I don't have an Internet connection, or only a slow one. The majority of what I download only gets watched once and deleted.

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by lolinder »

miiiiiike wrote: post #107
lolinder wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This feels like it's covered by YouTube subscriptions, no? Subscribe to those 100 channels, bookmark your subscriptions page, and presto! You now have a priority feed of the stuff you want to watch and nothing else. Maybe you just don't want to create an account, which is fine (NewPipe is a great fit), but it's a bit weird to see you say that "making sure we don’t miss the things we love isn’t YouTube’s M.O." when th…

I have hundreds of subs. With no way to create sub tiers the channels putting out multiple releases a day quickly overwhelm the ones with fewer.

So, you have hundreds of subs but only care about a hundred of them, and that's YouTube's fault?

Why do you subscribe to channels whose content you don't watch?

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by lolinder »

timando wrote: post #108
lolinder wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This feels like it's covered by YouTube subscriptions, no? Subscribe to those 100 channels, bookmark your subscriptions page, and presto! You now have a priority feed of the stuff you want to watch and nothing else. Maybe you just don't want to create an account, which is fine (NewPipe is a great fit), but it's a bit weird to see you say that "making sure we don’t miss the things we love isn’t YouTube’s M.O." when th…

The problem is if one channel only uploads once a month and another channel uploads twice a day, I will see many videos from the frequent upload channels and might miss the infrequent uploads. If it was just a list of channels with their most recent video I'd see a new thumbnail and know to check that channel for any new videos.

I just unsubscribe from the spam channel because they're producing too much noise. I don't need content producers like that in my life, and making it less obvious that they're adding mostly noise is just disguising the problem, not solving it.

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by sudoaptinstall »

ajot wrote: post #88
miiiiiike wrote: post #83

What I’d really like is a YouTube TiVo. There are about 100 channels that I watch religiously, but, release infrequently. I never want to miss a video from these channels. I also don’t want to open YouTube and sift through hundreds of releases from channels that release four times/day just to find the 1-2 videos that I actually want to watch (and will inevitably miss.) Just give me a priority feed of the stuff I actu…

NewPipe works great for this usecase. Just get rid of the "Default Kiosk" column as content of main page, leave the "What's New" and watch only videos from channels that you subscribe to (on NewPipe, it's not integrated in any way with a Google Account).

NewPipe is my gateway drug for getting people into sideloading and fdroid. It's such a great app.

If anyone is reading this and doesn't know about NewPipe, it's a google free youtube front end. It's well worth installing.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by anonCoffee »

counterpartyrsk wrote: post #103
andix wrote: post #91

It's a bit puzzling to me, how many YouTube mirroring tools are available out there. If you're using something like that, what's your reason to download/archive the videos instead of just streaming them from YouTube? I get that sometimes it's great to archive a video in the case it get's deleted from YouTube, but in my case this very rarely happens. I watch the video and I'm done with it. If I can't re-watch it, this…

Block YouTube on kid's home network, but give them assess to your locally curated DadTube.

Yep, that's what I do.

Not that I would let them anyhow but YouTube starts recommending really trashy stuff when it finds out you're a kid. The tamest of it being stuff like adults playing with toys in a very childish manner.

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by reflexco »

miiiiiike wrote: post #107
lolinder wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This feels like it's covered by YouTube subscriptions, no? Subscribe to those 100 channels, bookmark your subscriptions page, and presto! You now have a priority feed of the stuff you want to watch and nothing else. Maybe you just don't want to create an account, which is fine (NewPipe is a great fit), but it's a bit weird to see you say that "making sure we don’t miss the things we love isn’t YouTube’s M.O." when th…

I have hundreds of subs. With no way to create sub tiers the channels putting out multiple releases a day quickly overwhelm the ones with fewer.

You could use separate Youtube channels for this. Use one to subscribe only to the infrequently releasing channels.

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by aquova »

Group_B wrote: post #85
miiiiiike wrote: post #83

What I’d really like is a YouTube TiVo. There are about 100 channels that I watch religiously, but, release infrequently. I never want to miss a video from these channels. I also don’t want to open YouTube and sift through hundreds of releases from channels that release four times/day just to find the 1-2 videos that I actually want to watch (and will inevitably miss.) Just give me a priority feed of the stuff I actu…

I believe youtube still uses RSS. Could try using that

I was just going to suggest this. I don't use Youtube logged in anymore or have any subscriptions, I instead subscribe to any I want to follow via RSS feeds. Any Youtube channel has its own native RSS feed, no third party service required. You could create different lists in your RSS client of choice for your different priorities.

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by thatloststudent »

miiiiiike wrote: post #107
lolinder wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This feels like it's covered by YouTube subscriptions, no? Subscribe to those 100 channels, bookmark your subscriptions page, and presto! You now have a priority feed of the stuff you want to watch and nothing else. Maybe you just don't want to create an account, which is fine (NewPipe is a great fit), but it's a bit weird to see you say that "making sure we don’t miss the things we love isn’t YouTube’s M.O." when th…

I have hundreds of subs. With no way to create sub tiers the channels putting out multiple releases a day quickly overwhelm the ones with fewer.

Newpipe takes care of this pretty well. You can select what it calls "Channel groups", which would be a feed of a subset of your subscriptions.

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by defrost »

aquova wrote: post #117
Group_B wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe youtube still uses RSS. Could try using that

I was just going to suggest this. I don't use Youtube logged in anymore or have any subscriptions, I instead subscribe to any I want to follow via RSS feeds. Any Youtube channel has its own native RSS feed, no third party service required. You could create different lists in your RSS client of choice for your different priorities.

It's pretty easy - I have the FeedBro chrome extension (there are many RSS clients, that is just one) and a typical youtube RSS entry for a channel lookes like

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC2wdo5v...

that's the channel ID for Cutting Edge Engineering in QLD, Australia (mechanical engineering for life size mining | civil tonka toys)

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by hashslingingsha »

fragmede wrote: post #45
pdntspa wrote: post #3

"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?

Times my laptop has been stolen: 0. Times a video I like has disappeared from YouTube: 10,000-ish. Offsite backups: priceless.
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