jellyfin-youtube-metadata-plugin VS youtube-dl

As a less sophisticated alternative there's a metadata plugin for jellyfin https://github.com/ankenyr/jellyfin-youtube-metadata-plugin

You probably want Tube Archivist. The only problem is that it’s naming convention doesn’t work with the Jellyfin YouTube Metadata Plugin.

For future videos you download with yt-dlp you can try using the Jellyfin YouTube Metadata Plugin. Jellyfin grabs the exact images and descriptions from YouTube.

As for the plugin I’ve gotten it to work in Docker but could never get it to work for Jellyfin MacOS because it wouldn’t recognize my already installed yt-dlp. Did you try the yt-dlp install command on the plugin’s GitHub page?

Youtube Metadata Plugin - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ankenyr/jellyfin-plugin-repo/master/manifest.json YoutubeMetadata - Pull YoutubeMetadata from info.json or YoutubeAPI.

Aha! I found this. https://github.com/ankenyr/jellyfin-youtube-metadata-plugin

It has always saddened me that Jellyfin can't get metadata for YouTube videos... I mean I'm aware of ankenyr's plugin, but I've never managed to make it work :/

For some reason I am unable to get them to work together (I’m using the file output as “%(id)s”) which to my understanding should work with the Metadata scraper as seen here but when I sync the content on my server it just uses the title of the folder (the YouTubers name) and doesn’t populate any metadata.

Theres an open issue on the Youtube Metadata plugin to try and get it to support TubeArchivists naming scheme (which will never change), but there has been no progress on it: https://github.com/ankenyr/jellyfin-youtube-metadata-plugin/issues/40

This docker container works well https://github.com/Jeeaaasus/youtube-dl

I use this docker image to download stuff https://github.com/Jeeaaasus/youtube-dl. Idk what type of power consumption my server uses, it's a Ryzen 3100, 16gb of RAM, T400 for graphics. Has 24TBs. I use it for YouTube backups which downloads from a list of channels I give it along with downloading videos from a specified playlist about once an hour. You can definitely run a YouTube downloader on a less powerful machine, I just recently upgraded my server. I also use it to run Jellyfin and torrenting stuff.

Try youtube-dl - https://hub.docker.com/r/jeeaaasustest/youtube-dl/

I use Jeeaaasus - youtube-dl in Docker, which is working great for me. I have enabled the web UI which enables me to add channels easily. And refreshes all videos every couple of hours. Also you can use all the command line options available in yt-dlp.

Extremely easy to get it running, though I haven't tried automating. The Youtube-DL container template in the community apps store uses ytp-dl. Here is the repo https://github.com/Jeeaaasus/youtube-dl and the container hub page https://hub.docker.com/r/jeeaaasustest/youtube-dl/

That probably depends on what you want to download. I use https://github.com/Jeeaaasus/youtube-dl for youtube videos, the ui sucks but it does the job. I wouldn't use a browser extension due to privacy reasons