Just so I could like sync a channel, for example, download the current available and upcoming videos so it could be accessed via Jellyfin (or something similar, or maybe upload them into a locally restricted hosted PeerTube) locally?

    • Auster@thebrainbin.org
      4·
      3 days ago

      If you use yt-dlp, I think it’s interesting to mention it allows attaching the video’s description into the file’s comment, like in the following command:
      yt-dlp --embed-metadata --parse-metadata "description:(?s)(?P<meta_comment>.+)" https://video-link/

      It also has the option to download, as well as embed, different audio and subtitles languages, iirc, as well as fetching the auto-generated dubbing and subtitles from Youtube. Just can’t remember the respective flags as I may use it only very sporadically.

      • :David@slrpnk.netOP
        3·
        3 days ago

        Thanks, I was only aware of being able to download auto subtitles from yt-dlp and downloading description into a text file. Is it possible to download comments too? Depending on what kind of video you watch, like if you are watching a video about grammar on foreign languages, sometimes there are people giving good advices in approaching it in a more simplistic way or easier to remember.

        e: apparently there’s --write-comments for that to save into a json file

        • Auster@thebrainbin.org
          2·
          2 days ago

          Wasn’t aware of the flag you found, so my best suggestion would have been something like the extensions SingleFile and WebScrapBook. =O

          • :David@slrpnk.netOP
            2·
            17 hours ago

            I’ve used SingleFile long ago before I started switching many softwares I used to more ethical/privacy-wise better ones and I never knew it was open-source that’s good to know, thanks. Since then I have been using HTTrack for pages sometimes. I didn’t know about WebScrapBook though, thanks for making me aware of it. I also never tried to save videos with softwares witj the purpose to save pages however I could make some use of these suggestions for other things, my goal is to automate it and while these suggestions are all good maybe not for automated synchronization with these platforms or other video sharing platforms. It’s still very helpful your suggestions nevertheless, thank you!