jellyfin-youtube-metadata-plugin VS tubearchivist-jf

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

And don’t forget, we now have our very own Jellyfin integration, now also as a docker image, thanks jonasrosland for taking the initiative there. This allows you to sync metadata from TA to JF: https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist-jf. Plex integration is in the works by your favorite helping hand, lamusmaser, so stay tuned for that.

There is a jellyfin integration being tested which might help since it explicitly syncs metadata including date published, but it is apparently still being tested.

Cronjob for https://github.com/tubearchivist/jellyfin - you will likely want to edit some parameters, but it is super simple. I'll provide my patch below.

Upon popular request, I caved and created a proof of concept Jellyfin integration, if you want to give this a try: https://github.com/tubearchivist/jellyfin. Reach out if you are interested in using that, this will need a maintainer like you to further extend it.

For the Emby integration, I assume you saw the FAQ, that's not what this project is about. But nonetheless there is a proof of concept with a little python script for Jellyfin, should be compatible with Emby, if you want to help test this: https://github.com/tubearchivist/jellyfin.