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?
Most kids today don’t know how to use a computer, but old farts like me use yt-dlp.
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.
On Android Newpipe has the best UI in my opinion.
I use newpipe on phone but metube isn’t too hard to install with docker
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.
I use GUI wrappers for yt-dlp - Parabolic on Fedora GNOME and Seal on Android
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web Plex Brand of media server package SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
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Good bot.
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’ve downloaded many videos with PipePipe on my Android.
@muusemuuse There are many comment but only a few links so check it out :
For PC, yt-dlp is by far the best ( https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp)
There are many wrapper/UIs you can install, like https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp.
For Android, I’ve seen people mention NewPipe https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
But personally I think Seal is the best as it allows to download entire playlists. https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal
NewPipe
https://cobalt.tools/ is good idk if it works still
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.
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.
