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Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by IncreasePosts » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 8:28 PM UTC

pdntspa wrote: post #57

IncreasePosts wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Sure. But I think using a web page is a much nicer solution than getting a remote desktop stuffed onto my phone screen and trying to use a desktop-native app that way.

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by EasyMark » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 8:34 PM UTC

Why self hosted when you can use something like freetube? So you can access through mobile? I only tend to watch videos one time so this seems like overkill unless you use youtube A LOT and regularly for the same streams.

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by EasyMark » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 8:35 PM UTC

pdntspa wrote: post #3

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

or just use freetube?

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by rmm » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 8:37 PM UTC

Does there exist a “light weight” YouTube self hosted clone.

Something like plex for YouTube?

I want to auto download videos from my favourite podcasts, but then have a super simple dashboard that shows the videos and lets me watch them.

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by wahnfrieden » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 8:42 PM UTC

I discovered that brave for iOS has a playlist button which downloads YouTube videos and stores them on your device, allowing PiP and offline playback without ads. I wonder why more apps don't do this as they have an open license based off a Mozilla iOS backend. They found a way to get Apple to accept it and their CEO has even posted HERE about it defending their technique as valid. Essentially, it triggers only after loading the video inside the regular YouTube website, like a reader button that works across any video content (not just YouTube).

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by conception » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 8:48 PM UTC

rmm wrote: post #64

Does there exist a “light weight” YouTube self hosted clone. Something like plex for YouTube? I want to auto download videos from my favourite podcasts, but then have a super simple dashboard that shows the videos and lets me watch them.

Just use plex?

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by dewey » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 8:52 PM UTC

rmm wrote: post #64

Does there exist a “light weight” YouTube self hosted clone. Something like plex for YouTube? I want to auto download videos from my favourite podcasts, but then have a super simple dashboard that shows the videos and lets me watch them.

I'd use https://flexget.com + Plex for that

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by rmm » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 8:55 PM UTC

conception wrote: post #66

rmm wrote: post #64

Does there exist a “light weight” YouTube self hosted clone. Something like plex for YouTube? I want to auto download videos from my favourite podcasts, but then have a super simple dashboard that shows the videos and lets me watch them.

Just use plex?

I have tried but it’s really taxing. A lot of the videos are like daily podcasts or whatever and it’s a battle to get them to import correctly, with correct naming, etc.

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by AyyEye » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 9:18 PM UTC

happyopossum wrote: post #47

AyyEye wrote: post #11

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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?

Nobody that is managing servers, self-hosted services, etc is doing it primarily from mobile.

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by mpweiher » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 9:24 PM UTC

grep_name wrote: post #54

codetrotter wrote: post #51

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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 concerne…

I back up the data on my laptop daily to rotating backup disks + there's a local server for git and some other stuff. So yeah, storage on my laptop is disposable. Which I test whenever I get a new one: restore from backup. Works.