podsync VS youtube

this is not something you would host and share with everyone, as transcoding is not cheap to host, it only makes sense for personal use only, also stuff like podsync has existed for a long time, which is basically the same thing missing the transcoding.

Completely unrelated to Tailscale, another option is Cloudflare Tunnel. It will also traverse CGNAT and expose your Plex server to the public internet. The only limitation here is that you must have a subdomain. I have my own paid one, but I don't see why you couldn't use something like https://freedns.afraid.org/ to get a free subdomain. Cloudflare Tunnel is completely free, and it comes with free TLS too. I use it with podsync to watch YouTube using my podcasting app and make the feeds available to my friends as well (which would be more hassle if we used Tailscale).

I'll turn them into podcasts with tools like Listenbox, YouCast, Podsync

Another option is podsync

If you’re technically minded you can spin up your own instance of https://github.com/mxpv/podsync - I ran one on Amazon S3 for a while until I found listenbox - but you could run on your own server too.

If you have the expertise to do so, the best way to consume YouTube is to use PodSync to map channels to RSS feeds consumable by any standard podcast player. No algorithm, no ads, just the content you actually want to see.

I'm looking to setup https://github.com/mxpv/podsync but I've have numerous issues with mapping the config file.

The app youtubedr ---help information shows that it accepts reading from a yaml config file. But there isn't any sample. How should this be formatted?

If only video watching functionality is needed, I use https://github.com/kkdai/youtube (v2) for my Youtube <-> Kodi integration written in Golang. It does not require login to watch public videos. Probably there are similar libraries written in Python that can be used to code a minimalistic add-on.