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Someone really needs to make the Sonarr equivalent for YouTube (or maybe it already exists) where you plug in your list of subscriptions and it just automatical

Someone really needs to make the Sonarr equivalent for YouTube (or maybe it already exists) where you plug in your list of subscriptions and it just automatically downloads them and adds them to Plex/Jellyfin. Sidestep this bullshit entirely. YouTube is a lot like reddit in that, if you're curating your subscriptions, there's a lot of good and worthwhile stuff to be found, but if you're just taking the default stuff that the site pushes to you, you're going to be mired in absolute garbage non-stop. Take the power back!

bentcorner 3y ago
Tubesync? I actually just tried this out a few days ago and it didn't appear to work out of the box - I need to play with its knobs and switches to figure out why it isn't indexing the channels I fed it. In any case according to the instructions on the tin it should work.
dageshi 3y ago
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- tourmalinetaco 3y ago
  Why give YouTube money? They make plenty off Premium, ads, and user data and still do shit like this. Not to mention the fact that they censor legal content, their algos have gotten worse, they broke search, they manually select most of the trending tab, false DMCAs get accepted constantly, and what little algos do work snuff out small channels who struggle to reach viewers like me because I keep getting recommended the same 5 videos regardless of what I watch. Tl;dr fuck YouTube I genuinely hope LBRY or Peertube take its place sooner rather than later.
  - dageshi 3y ago
    Because youtube is probably one of the most expensive sites on the net to run, it's also one of the most useful sites on the net full stop. If ads are the problem, google provides a solution in Youtube Premium, a solution I should add that I frequently hear people on HN begging for e.g. "Don't make me deal with ads, let me just pay for it". When the rubber meets the road though, people won't actually pay to remove ads, they, like you, will come up with any number of excuses to avoid doing so.
    - tourmalinetaco 3y ago
      So my genuine grievances with a platform are “excuses” for not giving them my hard-earned cash? Maybe you need to re-evaluate your relationship with YouTube. I won’t give them my money nor time because on every level I find them a disgusting business. I only put up with them due to the fact that they are, unfortunately, the only major player in town with many content creators I enjoy. I wish they would move to FOSS solutions, but unfortunately adoption is slow amongst non-tech channels. Instead, I use RSS and Invidious to interface with the content I enjoy in a way far superior to YouTube’s own offerings, all for free. And thus I can take the money I save from Premium and give it to creators directly via donation services/merch. If you believe its somehow “worth it” to support a multibillion company that is backed by an even larger corporation who has made it clear time and time again they don’t care about their creators, then by all means go ahead, but your assessment that these are “excuses” to “avoid” paying for a service I don’t require is detached from reality on every level.
      - mox1 3y ago
        If they are a "disgusting company" that "doesn't care about their creators" why are you still utilizing it! You can't have your cake and eat it too. Its incredibly disingenuous to say all this, then go on to watch hours of YouTube a week.. Sounds like mental gymnastics to justify your continued enjoyment of their platform while sticking it to them. I dislike Google, but damn sure I'm paying for youtube premium. I swear under my breath every month when they charge my card, but at the end of the day the value is there for me and my family, not sure what else to say....
        tourmalinetaco 3y ago
        I have my cake and eat it too. No ads, all the content creators I enjoy, I actually get notified of new uploads, and none of YouTube’s garbage. I get an even better experience than YT Premium for free, no ads included. It’s better for the creators I enjoy as well, because I pay even more than Premium in Patreons every month. And if you bothered to read anything I said, you’d understand why I put up with YouTube. Content creators I enjoy haven’t adopted other, superior platforms. More and more swap to alternatives like LBRY, which is great, but unfortunately not enough to completely replace it. Though I never did say I watched “hours of YouTube a week”, in fact its increasingly losing prevalence in my life as I return to reading books. Additionally, if you supposedly “dislike” Google, than why are you supporting them? Why are you defending the solution to a problem they themselves created? If I’m playing “mental gymnastics”, then it sounds like you’re training for the mental olympics with how far you’re defending your own purchasing habits. You need to cut out the abusive lover that is YouTube out of your life, they’re genuinely not worth it. You can do better.
- tomjen3 3y ago
  Doesn’t remove sponsored ads, doesn’t remove suggested/related videos, doesn’t let you chron download to files on a schedule that works for you.
- epiccoleman 3y ago
  I actually do pay for Youtube, and I think for $10/mo, the amount of guitar related content I use to learn and entertain myself is well worth it. But still, pulling down the stuff you like and escaping the algorithm has a lot of merit.
QuadmasterXLII 3y ago
Yt-dlp has this feature, all I had to do was set up a cron job to run it once a night and clean up videos more than 3 days old.

bentcorner 3y ago

Tubesync? I actually just tried this out a few days ago and it didn't appear to work out of the box - I need to play with its knobs and switches to figure out why it isn't indexing the channels I fed it. In any case according to the instructions on the tin it should work.

dageshi 3y ago

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tourmalinetaco 3y ago
Why give YouTube money? They make plenty off Premium, ads, and user data and still do shit like this. Not to mention the fact that they censor legal content, their algos have gotten worse, they broke search, they manually select most of the trending tab, false DMCAs get accepted constantly, and what little algos do work snuff out small channels who struggle to reach viewers like me because I keep getting recommended the same 5 videos regardless of what I watch. Tl;dr fuck YouTube I genuinely hope LBRY or Peertube take its place sooner rather than later.
- dageshi 3y ago
  Because youtube is probably one of the most expensive sites on the net to run, it's also one of the most useful sites on the net full stop. If ads are the problem, google provides a solution in Youtube Premium, a solution I should add that I frequently hear people on HN begging for e.g. "Don't make me deal with ads, let me just pay for it". When the rubber meets the road though, people won't actually pay to remove ads, they, like you, will come up with any number of excuses to avoid doing so.
  - tourmalinetaco 3y ago
    So my genuine grievances with a platform are “excuses” for not giving them my hard-earned cash? Maybe you need to re-evaluate your relationship with YouTube. I won’t give them my money nor time because on every level I find them a disgusting business. I only put up with them due to the fact that they are, unfortunately, the only major player in town with many content creators I enjoy. I wish they would move to FOSS solutions, but unfortunately adoption is slow amongst non-tech channels. Instead, I use RSS and Invidious to interface with the content I enjoy in a way far superior to YouTube’s own offerings, all for free. And thus I can take the money I save from Premium and give it to creators directly via donation services/merch. If you believe its somehow “worth it” to support a multibillion company that is backed by an even larger corporation who has made it clear time and time again they don’t care about their creators, then by all means go ahead, but your assessment that these are “excuses” to “avoid” paying for a service I don’t require is detached from reality on every level.
    - mox1 3y ago
      If they are a "disgusting company" that "doesn't care about their creators" why are you still utilizing it! You can't have your cake and eat it too. Its incredibly disingenuous to say all this, then go on to watch hours of YouTube a week.. Sounds like mental gymnastics to justify your continued enjoyment of their platform while sticking it to them. I dislike Google, but damn sure I'm paying for youtube premium. I swear under my breath every month when they charge my card, but at the end of the day the value is there for me and my family, not sure what else to say....
      - tourmalinetaco 3y ago
        I have my cake and eat it too. No ads, all the content creators I enjoy, I actually get notified of new uploads, and none of YouTube’s garbage. I get an even better experience than YT Premium for free, no ads included. It’s better for the creators I enjoy as well, because I pay even more than Premium in Patreons every month. And if you bothered to read anything I said, you’d understand why I put up with YouTube. Content creators I enjoy haven’t adopted other, superior platforms. More and more swap to alternatives like LBRY, which is great, but unfortunately not enough to completely replace it. Though I never did say I watched “hours of YouTube a week”, in fact its increasingly losing prevalence in my life as I return to reading books. Additionally, if you supposedly “dislike” Google, than why are you supporting them? Why are you defending the solution to a problem they themselves created? If I’m playing “mental gymnastics”, then it sounds like you’re training for the mental olympics with how far you’re defending your own purchasing habits. You need to cut out the abusive lover that is YouTube out of your life, they’re genuinely not worth it. You can do better.
tomjen3 3y ago
Doesn’t remove sponsored ads, doesn’t remove suggested/related videos, doesn’t let you chron download to files on a schedule that works for you.
epiccoleman 3y ago
I actually do pay for Youtube, and I think for $10/mo, the amount of guitar related content I use to learn and entertain myself is well worth it. But still, pulling down the stuff you like and escaping the algorithm has a lot of merit.

QuadmasterXLII 3y ago

Yt-dlp has this feature, all I had to do was set up a cron job to run it once a night and clean up videos more than 3 days old.