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?
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 😜
Stacher already dines the one off things like that for me. I’m more looking at automated runs.
I mean you can use Peertube for that. I use it that way.
I still use Pinchflat. It doesn’t exactly do as I like, but I’m mostly just downloading two channels, so it’s okay enough for me.
Metube is a nice UI with yt-dlp as a background that is updated regularly.
Just use Jdownloader to download whatever you want from the internet.
That’s what I use a well, Specifically jdownloader2. I have run into a few YouTube videos it can’t get. Typically they are music.
yt-dlp is great for cli, and if you want a web gui, you can run metube in docker
I don’t think docker is a good solution for people who need a gui
There is portainer. CLI until you install portainer then everything is GUI based.
The whole concept of running containers might be too much for most people. Ideally it would just be an app that you download.
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);
Parabolic
I use the Parabolic flatpak and it works well (apart from when the mouse gets caught for a few days in the cat and mouse game that is YouTube downloading).
On Android I use Seal. Aside from an occasional hiccup it’s awesome and does a phenomenal job 99% of the time. If I ever can’t get one item to work and there’s no alternative, I use one of the ones on my Linux machine. I’ll post the name when I’m home and can check.
I use metube and Pinchflat.
Metube is great for one-off video downloads and works for many sites including social media. This comes in handy a lot when I want to send a short reel to friends without linking to Facebook, etc.
Pinchflat automatically downloads my favorites playlists and a couple other channels that I follow. These videos go into specific folders that are linked to Plex libraries.
Yt.dlp. I wrote a small pyrhon script to give me a gui. Works really well.
I use newpipe on phone but metube isn’t too hard to install with docker
Is there anything that works for Vimeo?
TubeArchivist rules
https://cobalt.tools/ is good idk if it works still
yt-dlp, but most of the time you’ll use some form of front end. All the “youtube downloaders”, even the shady websites, are using yt-dlp. For selfhosted purposes, I like MeTube for individual downloads and Tubesync for keeping up with channels.
