youtube-dl-react-viewer VS youtube-dl-server

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If I'm archiving a channel or several videos from a channel, I use another docker container running youtube-dl-react-viewer+yt-dlp. The interface is somewhat similar to Youtube's site, but it can display videos downloaded from other websites supported by yt-dlp (provided the site provides the bare minimum metadata such as uploader name, upload date, thumbnail etc).

You could try https://github.com/graham-walker/youtube-dl-react-viewer.

You could check out https://github.com/graham-walker/youtube-dl-react-viewer - although atm it doesn't have a mechanism to auto update downloaded channels.

Edit: and thanks /u/20420 for letting us know about https://github.com/graham-walker/youtube-dl-react-viewer

Second, you need something to download the youtube videos so that they are available as files in Plex. for that I use the youtube-dl-server project because it does a few things:

I use a youtube-dl-server fork which has the yt-dlp as option with nbr23/youtube-dl-server:yt-dlp

Not quite the same idea/feel, but I've been using youtube-dl-server for some time. It supports/has yt-dlp as an option. if anyone is just looking for similar projects in general.

Or better yet, just host something like youtube-dl-server.

If it's something I'll be watching in Plex, I use a docker container running youtube-dl-server+youtube-dl to import it. I have an identical container set up for my SO so she can add her own stuff into her Plex libraries. I'll eventually be swapping out youtube-dl for yt-dlp in these containers.