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Is there something I can use to fetch and serve YouTube videos locally? (alien.top)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I am keeping my children away from Youtube, but there are plenty of educational videos that I would like to make available for them to view at their leisure. I would like something that works more or less like this:

  1. I add a youtube video url/playlist url/channel url
  2. It downloads the videos, possibly with metadata, and stores them locally.
  3. It serves them through a nice web interface.
  4. (optional) it syncs the channel content and keeps it up to date.

Is there anything similar out there?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I use yt-dlp & jellyfin for this exact purpose. Navigate to the channel you want, then click on the playlists link, this way it breaks the channel into consumable chunks. I use the naming options as channel/playlist/video title. I have yet to solve for pictures to automatically be pulled at the channel level. I also took some of my plex media libraries and split them out. Now in jellyfin I have their yt channels, TV shows, and movies curated on their tablets. I also have the directories shared with plex as every other device I have was already setup with plex and can see the same media.