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
You don’t back up the data from your laptop to external media? :S
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
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've been meaning to migrate to tube archivist forever, but I have several TB of youtube videos I don't want to re-download which I gathered using tubesync. Luckily I have the format string used to save the files by name and since tubesync uses django and a postgres backend I might be able to tie them to the youtube ID. But migration still seems like it might be a bit of a nightmare
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
You don’t back up the data from your laptop to external media? :S
Not the GP but for me personally, no, never. I only sync a couple of text files which I update and reference regularly enough to need them to be synced across machines constantly.
I don't really understand HN's seeming aversion to having a headless server that handles centralized tasks like downloading, storing, and serving files. It's a great model for personal computing with a ton of upsides. As far as I'm concerned all storage on my laptop is totally disposable, and I should be able to wipe and reinstall everything quickly without loss of important data.
They're all issued Chromebooks and live in a glorified browser and GSuite. There's something of an epidemic of students landing in college CS programs and not knowing how to manage files outside of Google Drive. Millennials got to use real computers growing up. Gens Z and Alpha got locked down Google appliances tightly monitored by schools.
My kid still cannot really grasp the concept of "things being stored locally on the computer or on the phone vs. things being on the Internet". She doesn't understand why some apps require Internet and others don't. No concept of the boundary between local and network. "What do you mean 'it's stored on the phone'? YouTube is stored on the phone, right?" I think a lot of this is developers intentionally blurring the l…
> I think a lot of this is developers intentionally blurring the line between local and cloud storage. If you were a layman iPhone user, would you be able to confidently tell me which of your photos are stored in iCloud and which are stored on your device? Apple is deliberately obfuscating it.
It is exactly this. I'd like to think it is less developers and more marketing/product manager/bizdev types trying to keep their customers ignorant as a form of lock-in.
"Self-hosted" ... on something that very much used to be a fairly simple desktop app... JDownloader anyone? Or yt-dlp ????
Could I use this hypothetical desktop app from my desktop, my other desktop, my mobile phone, my wife's mobile phone, and the Chromecast on my media center?
Depends, do you know how to use Remote Desktop? There are RDP or VNC clients for all of the above.
"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?
Not sure what this has to do with anything, external and backup drives are cheap and cloud storage is even more cheap.
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/
My kid still cannot really grasp the concept of "things being stored locally on the computer or on the phone vs. things being on the Internet". She doesn't understand why some apps require Internet and others don't. No concept of the boundary between local and network. "What do you mean 'it's stored on the phone'? YouTube is stored on the phone, right?" I think a lot of this is developers intentionally blurring the l…
> I think a lot of this is developers intentionally blurring the line between local and cloud storage. If you were a layman iPhone user, would you be able to confidently tell me which of your photos are stored in iCloud and which are stored on your device? Apple is deliberately obfuscating it. It is exactly this. I'd like to think it is less developers and more marketing/product manager/bizdev types trying to keep th…
When I say "developers" I usually mean the entire development apparatus, including designers, product, and, yes, programmers. They all have agency, all work together to produce the product, and should share the honor and/or blame for their product.