Is there something I can use to fetch and serve YouTube videos locally? - eviltoast

I am keeping my children away from Youtube, but there are plenty of educational videos that I would like to make available for them to view at their leisure. I would like something that works more or less like this:

  1. I add a youtube video url/playlist url/channel url
  2. It downloads the videos, possibly with metadata, and stores them locally.
  3. It serves them through a nice web interface.
  4. (optional) it syncs the channel content and keeps it up to date.

Is there anything similar out there?

  • bciu55@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I use yt-dlp & jellyfin for this exact purpose. Navigate to the channel you want, then click on the playlists link, this way it breaks the channel into consumable chunks. I use the naming options as channel/playlist/video title. I have yet to solve for pictures to automatically be pulled at the channel level. I also took some of my plex media libraries and split them out. Now in jellyfin I have their yt channels, TV shows, and movies curated on their tablets. I also have the directories shared with plex as every other device I have was already setup with plex and can see the same media.