I'm genuinely curious: do you re-watch enough YT videos that you need to archive your subscriptions? Or have I misunderstood the use of the plugin? I'm using SmartTube for TV YT content and it's fantastic.
this post was submitted on 08 May 2024
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do you re-watch enough YT videos that you need to archive your subscriptions?
Well, if I can get it working, I would much rather be watching via Jellyfin on my TV and not whatever crappy, privacy-invading, ad-shoving Youtube app I'm forced to use.
But realistically, I want to keep some how-to / maintenance videos archived, because I've lost track of how many times they went “private” and can't be accessed anymore. Some really niche product use/maintenance videos tend to disappear.
I have no real interest in data hoarding vlogs or other crap. Just informational stuff.
Thanks for the reply. I guess I haven't had that happen to me yet with videos I'm looking for again having gone private.
I'm also not interested in crappy, privacy-invading, ad-shoving YouTube apps, which is why I mentioned SmartTube. In case you haven't heard of it, it's FOSS and has AdBlock & SponsorBlock integrated. It's designed for TV use. If Tube Archivist fits your need though, that's great.
My wife is using Smarttube on a TV that has one of there Chromecast dongles, but our main LG TV doesn't have that option.
I've been using FreeTube through Windows on a MiniPC, but it's not an elegant solution. LOL It does work, though.
You may be able to root the LG TV and use https://github.com/webosbrew/youtube-webos, which supports ad blocking and sponsorblock. Or you could install it with developer mode, but developer mode has a limited session time.
If I watch it once and might want to see it again, I download it.
This was if it gets censored or removed I have a copy.
I'm using pinchflat with Jellyfin (category mode "Music videos") and it displays titles, descriptions and thumbnail correctly
pinchflat allows to embed metadata + thumbnail, idk if tube archivest has that too
I’m using pinchflat
Well. I just installed it and the folder/file structure is definitely better! Now I have to figure out how to get Jellyfin to "see" the download directory. LOL
Thanks for pointing me to another solution.
EDIT: Got that sorted out. Goddamn, it just works! Thank you!
I suppose you are using the plugin at https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist-jf-plugin. Very rarely I had the same problem. But if I ignore it, the data sometimes fixes itself after another update. If not, you could try the manual trigger. Frankly I have no idea why it fails sometimes.
Yes, that's the first one I tried.
Maybe I'll keep trying, but I don't want to commit to tube archivist until it plays nice with jellyfin. 🤞
Maybe you could try Pinchflat. I haven't yet tried it though I do plan to do it some time soon.
You need to set a trigger for tubearchivist-jf to run after you’ve downloaded a video.