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?
Make sure you update often though. Youtube/Google/Alphabet are playing whackamole.
You can use yt-dlp -U to update if you are using the release binaries
If you installed with pip, simply re-run the same command that was used to install the program
If you installed with pip, simply re-run the same command that was used to install the program
Simply running pip install yt-dlp doesn’t update though, right? You need to add an upgrade flag, so either:
pip install yt-dlp --upgradepip install yt-dlp -UEDIT: Maybe I should actually read this documentation that I am commenting about. Their steps to initially install it with PIP mention to use the -U flag anyway. That flag is meant for updating, but it won’t make the package install wrong if used during initial installation of the package or anything, so no reason not to.
I put it in a container that has a build process every week.
I just did uv tool install yt-dlp[default] --with mutagen. Updates are handled automatically.
Yt-dlp is the way. J-Downloader is okay too if you need a good interface but dlp is just too damn powerful to not use
Most kids today don’t know how to use a computer, but old farts like me use yt-dlp.
As others have already said, yt-dlp is absolutely the gold standard. It even works in Termux. As for a dedicated Android app, there are apps like Seal which are effectively just wrappers for yt-dlp. Then the open source YouTube clients like Tubular, which are primarily for browsing/watching videos, have a download button on every video.
Seal is my favorite app to demonstrate the power of installing apps outside of Google Play
Android users can use YTDLnis for a nice GUI FE. It’s also available for install from IzzyOnDroid.
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);
I use GUI wrappers for yt-dlp - Parabolic on Fedora GNOME and Seal on Android
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 use newpipe on phone but metube isn’t too hard to install with docker
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).
Metube is a nice UI with yt-dlp as a background that is updated regularly.
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 |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.
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