It's simple, no UI bloat, can export audio, video and I don't have to mess with yt-dlp which is huge and the documentation is like reading a whole book xD.
Though barebone yt-dlp allows way more :)
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Nice, looks like it could even do subs via YTDL_OPTIONS.
Yeaaah ! It has some degree of customization via docker environment. Dunno how far you can go though, I only have a sleep interval option.
But the barebone default configuration works out of the box :D!
I haven't gotten around to spinning it up yet, but I was just looking into this myself and was going to try out Pinchflat. If anyone has used it and has any feedback I'd love to hear it.
I was between it and Tube Archivist.
I'm running Pinchflat. It's great - does what it says, looks good, easy to use. No complaints.
Definitely not tube archivist...
Development is semi-frozen. The developer is also more hostile and they need to be even to contributions from others.
And it does not store your files in a way that is self-contained. And there is no option to control the naming or organization of the files it stores.
Your file system should be navigatable and understandable without having to run software and pull information from a database in order to interpret it. Tube Archivist is far FAR from ideal media archival software IMHO.
It misses the mark in so many ways it drives me insane.
https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist
because it also archives all the metadata/comments and has a jellyfin plugin
Never really got used to this but recently discovered
https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat
and love it
I use archivebox, it's a more general purpose website archiver but it runs yt-dlp against sites to grab videos.
I’ll add I’ve been using YouTube-DL-Material.