Browser extension and local back end that automatically archives YouTube videos

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  1. starchive

    browser plugin to send youtube, insta (all social videos) to local backend and process audio and video in all sorts of ways.

    Ah good point. yt-dlp already has this, just need to prompt for auth and pass it thru. I made a ticket: https://github.com/andrewarrow/starchive/issues/4

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  3. UMP_Format

    A description of the UMP data format used by YouTube

    Interesting. I was looking into creating an extension that manually manipulates and intercepts the vnd.yt-ump [1] requests, then use webcodecs to process everything in the browser.

    [1]: https://github.com/gsuberland/UMP_Format/blob/main/UMP_Forma...

  4. yt-dlp

    A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

    oh wow, yeah https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp sounds like the easier path.

  5. browser-extension

    Tube Archivist Companion for your Browser (by tubearchivist)

    Ive been using Tubearchivist with the extension for this.

    https://github.com/tubearchivist/browser-extension

    I really like the WebUI of Tubearchivist itself.

  6. LocalTube

    I creates something similar in concept but with different goal. I wanted to be able to watch videos with sponsor block on iPad ideally using Plex.

    I found self hosted solution like this but I was very dissatisfied with how that worked

    on other hand I wanted to check out loco.rs framework, so I decided to implement my own solution.

    basically you are able to add channels/playlists on many many platforms that yt-dlp supports, you can select what should be cut out using sponsor block and you choice how many days you want it (videos older that that are automatically deleted)

    if you are interested, you can check it out: https://github.com/Szpadel/LocalTube

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