Maybe I‘m completely stuck but can somebody please explain the usecase of self hosting TubeArchivist?
https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist
Why would I rather download the content and watch it locally instead of watching it directly on YT?
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Years ago there was this funny clip of Ben Affleck doing various different Boston accents on the Jimmy Kimmel show. Super funny and became one of those clips that I would seek out a few times a year to rewatch and have a laugh.
It got pulled for for copyright or something which was weird because its really like a 3 minute clip. In any event its gone, forever. Cant find it anywhere.
Tubearchivist allows us to grab things we plan on rewatching over and over.
I use tubesync.
I can’t tell you how many channels have disappeared and been memory-holed. Especially since censorship went into overdrive around 2019.
Data hoarders can show you how the world was before all that happened.
I saw a person post a really good comment in regards to this a few days ago. They said they don’t want their kids going on YouTube. But there are videos they want to watch on YouTube. So they download the videos and put them on their media server. So the kids have their own playlist of videos to watch.
That’s actually really smart. Gotta remember that for when/if the condom ever breaks. Thanks!
last i looked it was a bloated mess
Can you explain more?
it took up like a gig of memory before i even had even logged into it. i think it’s because the author uses elasticsearch which just felt like overkill for what i thought it aimed to accomplish
There’s definitely some overhead. ES is used as a DB to integrate search functionality. I know you can do close or similar with other DBs, but that’s what they went with. It works pretty good on my archive (as far as the team is aware, I’m the heaviest user). I’ve got comments, subtitles in ES as well, all searchable.
You can limit the RAM ES has available to it with Java arguments if you care.
I use ytdl-sub and add everything to my Plex. That way I don’t have to deal with ads and also, some channels like Practical Engineering are worth sharing with your users
This is the way.