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?

  • AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    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.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    41·
    2 hours ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    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 5 acronyms.

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  • bigb@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    8 hours ago

    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.

      • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
        4·
        17 hours ago

        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 --upgrade
        • pip install yt-dlp -U

        EDIT: 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.

    • amniotic druid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      19 hours ago

      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

  • 404@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    11 hours ago

    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.

  • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
    16·
    18 hours ago

    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.

  • wildcardology@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    15 hours ago

    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 😜

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      21·
      15 hours ago

      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);