youtube-dl-viewer VS browser-extension

Im also thankful for projects like yt-dL-viewer that let us experience our own youtube backup again with all the metadata: https://github.com/Mikescher/youtube-dl-viewer

A while ago I did something similar. I'm already downloading various playlists via yt-dlp and wrote a [web interface](https://github.com/Mikescher/youtube-dl-viewer) to view them.

My biggest annoyance at the time was importing my existing videos (and converting them to a streamable format, generating thumbnails and hover-previews etc).

Similar to https://github.com/Mikescher/youtube-dl-viewer that gives you a Web-viewer for your downloaded YouTube videos.

Seconding tubearchivist. One of the killer features IMO is the browser extension [0], which adds a button on every video to send that video to the server to archive.

[0] https://github.com/tubearchivist/browser-extension

And of course, let’s not forget the browser extension Tube Archivist Companion, which got basically a rewrite with v0.1.0. Download and subscribe buttons are now injected directly into the YouTube page, so very conveniently, you can send links from YouTube to Tube Archivist with just one click as you browse, see some screenshots and installation instructions here.

With the Tube Archivist Companion, your friendly browser extension, you can: Send links from youtube.com to Tube Archivist to download or subscribe to things Sync your cookies for yt-dlp to for example - among many things - subscribe to your liked or to your watch later playlists and to feed that automatically into Tube Archivist.

I've implemented the cookie parsing option for the browser extension a few days ago, so any bug reports are very welcome, please open an issue here: https://github.com/tubearchivist/browser-extension