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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?
> why do you need to host it on a server? It can be just a standalone app Your Windows/Linux/OSX device, or a VM or container on it, can be the server if you wish. This way the creators don't need to make two UXs (web for the server, native for the other). A lot of people run thier self-hosted apps on an external server or home lab (or mix/multiple) with those resources being "properly" setup as infrastructure with b…
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/
I was looking at TubeArchivist. But didn’t like that it required 3 separate containers. Then I found Pinchflat on the selfhosted sub. It works as a single container and was easy deployment. Has been working well. https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat
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…
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 wouldn't mind a single program like this that let's you download from all sources: youtube, reddit, ig, twitter, facebook, etc.
Lets! Not let's! Lets is a form of word let , let's is a contraction of let us . Those are completely different words and are not inrerchangeable https://youryoure.com/?apostrophe
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…
at least a dozen times in the past couple of months i’ve searched for videos i’ve previously seen, using almost exact title language the search just wouldn’t give them to me. the vids i did find was only because i ultimately remembered the names of the channels they were on and had to trawl through them directly to find it.
it’s to the point now where it’ll just be easier to grab videos i find interesting and be able to find them later with much less hassle.
for me it wouldn’t be an issue if they hadn’t broken their search so badly.
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Or have a family member (Or trusted person) with enough knowledge to keep you trucking on when things go south, seems to work with both cars and tech
Except this breeds a learned helplessness, and makes every layman beholden to some wizard who knows the Old Wisdom, the right incantations to make the devices we rely on every day even function. It must feel awful to have to go through life at the mercy of tech crap that just doesn't work half the time, and little to no ability to reasonably deal with it. Besides, so many problems now aren't even fixable by end users…
while i agree that we might be moving too fast with our “progress” regarding tech, my guess is we’ll get it smoother before we fully move on.
however, don’t confuse helplessness with having better things to do with your time.
for example, we’re not helpless when we turn on a faucet to get water. we’re totally capable of hauling heavy buckets down the hill to the river and hauling heavy pales of water back home, then boiling the water to cook with and then again to take a bath. we just decided it’s a waste of time for every single person to do that for hours every single day. now we just turn a faucet and boom, that’s it. that’s not helpless.
we’re not incapable of hunting and gathering for hours every single day either. we just found a better way. now i can just go to the store grab a bag of chips without needing to grow potatoes for months first.
we’re not helpless, we just decided to be more efficient.
good news is, those who like growing a potato to make their own chips can still absolutely do it. if you’re someone who likes hauling 50 gallons of water by foot everyday from the local river, set up that fire and boil that water to your hearts content.
you may not have been implying it, but a lot of people lately seem to often confuse having different priorities with “helplessness.”