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Is there something I can use to fetch and serve YouTube videos locally? (alien.top)

submitted 11 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:

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

Is there anything similar out there?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Tube Archivist. It’s perfect for that. Your kids don’t even need to know Youtube exists. I just installed it and imported years of downloaded YT videos. The search engine finds anything in milliseconds!