Currently using pinchflat to scrape YouTube vids to a plex folder. Not sure this improves on that.
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If Pinchflat works well for you now, I would stick with it. The FreshRSS approach would be that it's a lot less resource heavy and barely require any storage space. Because of this, you can serve multiple people with thousands of subscriptions.
How do you handle the plex metadata side of things? I'm trying to do something similar.
For that particular setup pinchflat handles the metadata
Has anyone found a workaround for youtube making us sign in on vpn?
Here I can't watch on freetube, I'm not even on a vpn :/, fails on librewolf without account too. yewtu.be is working.
Can FreshRSS auto-download YouTube videos with SponsorBlock? That could be a game changer...
Pinchflat does just that…
Last time I looked into it something wasn't working right about it, or maybe it was just more complicated than I wanted but maybe I'll give it another go...
If you need a handful of plugins to make a site tolerable, there’s probably something terribly wrong with that place. We can keep on patching it with an ever growing list of plugins, but is it really worth it.
I just have a somewhat annoying yt dlp script that runs on a schedule on my computer that downloads all my subscriptions. I tried everything else including pinchflat and it wasn't really much of an improvement tbh.
Could you share that script please? I'd like to set up something similar
Give me a bit, I'll set up a gist with the details!
Thanks!
I'm more interested in the CSS they got in the screenshot
This is great! FreshRSS has been part of my YouTube “flow” for a long time. I like going through my subscriptions list, adding them to my “Watch Later” playlist, and then watching them all in a row. This seems like it’d be perfect for that.
Can it fetch text from the website?