ytdl-sub
Subscribe to and download media into a self-hosted media library
ytdl-sub is a tool built on yt-dlp that downloads videos, podcasts, and music from subscriptions and formats them with metadata and thumbnails for Plex, Jellyfin, or Kodi. It turns online channels into a self-hosted library kept up to date automatically.
Key features
- Subscription-based downloading
- Media server metadata formatting
- yt-dlp powered
- Recurring sync
Strengths
- Released under the GPL-3.0 license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Active community (2.9k GitHub stars)
- Written in Python
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