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Hi, I've seen some old posts that link to tools that target YouTube playlists and pull in newly posted videos. However, I'm looking for a way to just search and pull in without having to 'subscribe' to a playlist. Are there any other tools out there that work…
Hi, I've seen some old posts that link to tools that target YouTube playlists and pull in newly posted videos. However, I'm looking for a way to just search and pull in without having to 'subscribe' to a playlist. Are there any other tools out there that work similar to a radarr or sonarr, but target youtube videos that match a search? Thanks!
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Second this. For your case, create your own public playlist. Let Tubearchivist monitor it, and it will download all videos that you add to the playlist daily
Just as an aside: Public and Unpublished playlists should both work. I tend to use Unpublished for all of my yt-dlp playlists.
I've been using Pinchflat for a while, but decided yesterday that since Pinchflat's no longer being maintained maybe I should look into other options. ...then I realized that I download videos from only 5 channels or so and do nothing at all complicated, so why fix what isn't broken? Pinchflat's great and simple.
I use it every day for my family/household, and it does have an in-app "search" for videos on YouTube, but I'm not sure if that is exactly what OP is looking for. This is exactly what I was looking for and my few days with YouTarr so far have met everything I've been looking for Thank you so much!
Youtarr or TubeArchivist . Tried both and I’m currently using Youtarr. It’s free and YA has some paid features and is a more complicated setup.
Gave up in this, the ip blocking made it unusable
I use pinchflat . Works pretty well.
I used Pinchflat too but never got it really working perfectly with Plex/Jellyfin and i couldn't somehow download single videos only full channels. Switched over to TubeArchivist even though it has 3 Dockers it works like i want it.
Tube archivist. You do have to subscribe to channels or add videos to a monitored playlist
Another vote for Pinchflat here
I use MeTube personally
Youtarr is pretty great and under active dev, raised a bug last week and they got a fix pushed out within a couple of days.
ytdl-sub has been my goto
Youtarr has scaling with its API, manual download, playlists, channel subs, and with YouTube API you can search YT and dl. Lots more but yea works well! It’s been the closest to an Arr experience
Look at tubearchivist. You add playlists and videos and it downloads with metadata and has jellyfin and plex support. I also have a script that reads the metadata and renames the files.
Pinchflat, it has integrated sponsor block
I also vote for Youtarr ( https://youtarr.com ) , but I'm obviously biased since I created it. I use it every day for my family/household, and it does have an in-app "search" for videos on YouTube, but I'm not sure if that is exactly what OP is looking for. You can also subscribe to either a playlist (you could use a public playlist that you create if you want an easy way to auto-download new videos) or a subscribe to any channel and automatically download new videos from them.
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Yubal is pretty good. It has a browser extension too which you can use in YouTube music
Metube
Id love one too, there was a plugin for sonarr but i think its abandoned
this a manual way to do it yt-dlp.exe can download playlists for you, and you set it to keep track of the videos it downloads in a text file, so if you run the command it again, it only downloads the new videos in the playlist and ignores everything you already downloaded! I have mine set to just download 720p videos but you can setup to do 1080 or 4K whatever is available! You'll also need the ffmeg exe in the same folder as yt-dlp.exe yt-dlp.exe ^-f "bv*[ext=mp4][height=720]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[ext=mp4][height=720]/bv*[height=720]+ba/b[height<=720]" ^--merge-output-format mp4 ^--download-archive "Your Location\downloaded.txt" ^--embed-thumbnail ^--embed-metadata ^--write-description ^--write-info-json ^-o "Your save location\%(playlist_title)s\%(playlist_index)03d - %(title)s.%(ext)s" ^"Your playlist here "
Is there a way to integrate the skips that sponsorblock handles too ?
FileFlows has a browser extension. You can use this then the yt-dlp script to download and process YouTube videos.