I had Pinchflat set up on my server and never got around to putting it back in after I nuked it. I remember organizing backed up videos in jellyfin was a mess I never quite got working as well as I’d like.
I see there’s a couple alternatives mentioned on the Pinchflat GitHub. What is everybody else using to accomplish this?
Parabolic
yt-dlp
Metube is a nice UI with yt-dlp as a background that is updated regularly.
I use jdownloader2.
Paste a YouTube link and it will download the thumbnail, the video, a separate audio, and the transcript.
It will also download from a lot of video hosting sites if you know what I mean 😜
yt-dlp is great for cli, and if you want a web gui, you can run metube in docker
If I wanted a web UI I would just make a script that ran yt-dlp $1 and then use php shell_exec(script URL);
Most kids today don’t know how to use a computer, but old farts like me use yt-dlp.
Yt.dlp. I wrote a small pyrhon script to give me a gui. Works really well.
yt-dlp rules
TubeArchivist rules
I use metube on the server and made mobile integration with Android using “HTTP Shortcuts” to easily submit links to metube via its API. Just a simple Android share click and it’s done.
I’ve downloaded many videos with PipePipe on my Android.
Yt-dlp is what I see mostly
Make sure you update often though. Youtube/Google/Alphabet are playing whackamole.
You can use yt-dlp -U to update if you are using the release binaries
If you installed with pip, simply re-run the same command that was used to install the program
I just did
uv tool install yt-dlp[default] --with mutagen. Updates are handled automatically.I put it in a container that has a build process every week.
If you installed with pip, simply re-run the same command that was used to install the program
Simply running
pip install yt-dlpdoesn’t update though, right? You need to add an upgrade flag, so either:pip install yt-dlp --upgradepip install yt-dlp -U
EDIT: Maybe I should actually read this documentation that I am commenting about. Their steps to initially install it with PIP mention to use the
-Uflag anyway. That flag is meant for updating, but it won’t make the package install wrong if used during initial installation of the package or anything, so no reason not to.
Yt-dlp is the way. J-Downloader is okay too if you need a good interface but dlp is just too damn powerful to not use
Yup, don’t need anything else.
On Android, I use ytdlnis, which is a wrapper around yt-dlp. You can “share” a video from to YouTube app to ytdlnis and it’ll add it to the download queue.
I always recommend Seal just because I can never remember the name of this app. Has anyone made use of both and has an opinion on which is better?
I use Tubular
