Seems like Piped and Invidious are both on their last legs. Public instances on both services are pretty iffy, they go down fairly often now. Freetube works well on desktop but no real way to sync subscriptions and watch history to a phone. Self-hosting Piped/Invidious might be the solution but I don’t know if it’s worth the upkeep when YouTube is actively fighting against it.
As a archiver/data hoarder I use Tube Archivist that downloads videos from my subscriptions using sponsorblock to cut out ads. Then I use a script that tags the content and present them in Jellyfin with all info, sorted by channel and year.
This way I also have everything saved and no logging from YouTube of my viewing habits apart from what’s my subscriptions.
Not perfect, but close to it.
Dotfiles please
i have no configuration files prepared but it’s not rocket science at all. It consists of:
Sorry to not be able to provide YAML or alike. But it’s not hard to configure.
How do you script the addition of Metadata to the videos?
It’s automatically handled by https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist-jf.
It works by identifying the videos downloaded by Tube Archivist and sending the info to Jellyfin. It hooks into the API of Jellyfin and adds the metadata.