youtube-dl-viewer VS ytdl-sub

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.

Preps everything for kodi, including metadata, sensible folder structures etc. https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub

I recently found ytdl-sub which is basically a metadata wrapper around yt-dlp to help you save videos in a format library software like Plex etc supports. Rather than having some horribly named videos with metadata files just taking up space.

https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub

ytdl-sub

Use ytdl-sub for downloading YT channels/playlists/etc: https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub

I don't mean to take the limelight away from this, was probably a ton of work. I used to have a similar bash setup at one point, then later created this tool to standardize yt-dlp archiving: https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub

I'm biased because I'm the author, but I think ytdl-sub could shine here: https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub

I use the ytdl-sub project and it does a great job preserving the metadata and putting it in a format Plex can use without a lot of fuss. Maybe see about integrating with that instead of roll-your-own? A GUI is nice but I just have this set to run on a cron a couple times a day, set and forget.

You should give ytdl-sub a try - nearly 100% compatible with any yt-dlp arg and more: https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub