I watch YouTube when I eat etc. I pretty much solely watch gameplays. Is there any alternative? Or an opensource way to view YouTube? I don’t want to use Twitch because Amazon and I grew out of enjoying streamers in my late teens and it’s been a while since.
Edit: I don’t ever use it on mobile. Desktop via Firefox only.
I personally self host my own Viewtube using docker and it works really well.
That looks amazing, thanks for bringing it to my attention.
How was setting this up? This looks great but I am often bad at this.
Assuming you already have docker and docker compose set up on your server I just followed the docker compose file section on their installation wiki and got it working within minutes of deploying it.
Since you seem knowledgeable, I have a marginally related question. Do you know any dockers that can scrape a YouTube playlist automatically and put it in a Plex folder?
Yt-dlp app can download playlists and whole channels also batch download supported, just set download to folder you need, from text file in which your channels/playlists listed, and add recurring cron job to repeat downloading new videos as they appear
Hm, I’ll have to try again with that. I tried a couple, but I think that one would download one or two videos then quit.
Appreciate the info!
I had the same problem, to work properly app need to set proper arguments like “yt-dlp -abcd” and some people had problem with downloading speed, this problem was solved with usage of custom downloader option of yt-dlp, as custom downloader aria2 app was used with options to split downloaded file into 16 chunks downloaded in parallel, also as channels change names of videos you can accidentally download same file multiple times, to avoid that use dedication like fdupes or something, imo you should delve deeper into it and slap some bash script for your personal needs), then recurring cron job to repeat that script when you need it
Well since I did none of that, that would explain why it didn’t work. Thanks again!