Just so I could like sync a channel, for example, download the current available and upcoming videos so it could be accessed via Jellyfin (or something similar, or maybe upload them into a locally restricted hosted PeerTube) locally?

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    Grayjay has integration with Youtube, Peertube and others, so maybe that to download? Do mind one or other integrations may be spotty (e.g. Nico Nico through a 3rd party plugin) and or not supporting downloads (e.g. Spotify). And Youtube specifically requires login there for you to download videos marked as mature.

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        Don’t think it does. =/

        It’s mainly an Android program. But if you’d still use it, Android has a desktop/x86 version if you’d be so inclined, and maybe (hopefully) the PC version is updated into a decent state now.

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          I am aware of there existing desktop-first open-source like PrimeOS and fydeOS for low-end computer/notebook but since it’d only be used for that I don’t think it’d be worthy having an extra device exclusively for that, if I end up having another use cases restricted to Android maybe I’d have the more reasons to try such approach. I’ll sure keep it in mind though, I really appreciate your suggestion, thank you!

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        If you use yt-dlp, I think it’s interesting to mention it allows attaching the video’s description into the file’s comment, like in the following command:
        yt-dlp --embed-metadata --parse-metadata "description:(?s)(?P<meta_comment>.+)" https://video-link/

        It also has the option to download, as well as embed, different audio and subtitles languages, iirc, as well as fetching the auto-generated dubbing and subtitles from Youtube. Just can’t remember the respective flags as I may use it only very sporadically.

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          Thanks, I was only aware of being able to download auto subtitles from yt-dlp and downloading description into a text file. Is it possible to download comments too? Depending on what kind of video you watch, like if you are watching a video about grammar on foreign languages, sometimes there are people giving good advices in approaching it in a more simplistic way or easier to remember.

          e: apparently there’s --write-comments for that to save into a json file

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            Wasn’t aware of the flag you found, so my best suggestion would have been something like the extensions SingleFile and WebScrapBook. =O