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andix 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

You might want to download the videos to a NAS or home server and store them there, instead on the device you're on at the moment.

A dockerized web app is also much easier to build and maintain, than desktop clients for Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Linux, and so on.

hashslingingsha 6 months ago [–]

yt-dlp already exists, though, and conveniently, someone else packages and builds it for you already. Why are we boiling the ocean to download videos?

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