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What I really want is all my subscriptions to get auto-downloaded into Plex. And for Plex to have better library management tools from the player, so I can delete after watching or move to a category.

Then show me all the algorithmic stuff when I'm on the website so I can find better stuff to subscribe to.

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I've been using TubeArchivist for grabbing newly posted videos in my subscriptions. It will grab the meta info and thumbnails as well. Has a built in video player, so you can watch the videos directly within the web app.

https://github.com/bbilly1/tubearchivist

Another one I've used before is Tubesync- although it doesn't have a built-in player. But it has the ability to integrate with Plex.

https://github.com/meeb/tubesync

Tubearchivist is great! They even added support for ARM which means that you can put it on your RPi or smth.

The algorithmic stuff could actually be good if you could use it on demand and control its parameters, like a supercharged search page.

There are times I want to discover new content, it would be nice to be able to set the algorithm's parameters just right for a particular topic and see what it has to offer, then rinse and repeat for other topics.

I was actually looking at building a script like this. Have you found anything that does it already? If not, I was just going to make a small python script with readonly access to my Youtube account that pulls down my Watch Later video IDs and feeds them to youtube-dl on my NAS. Sounds like a fun Christmas vacation project.

There are multiple articles automating this task using youtube-dl. There's also a recent project called tubesync[0] that provides a GUI and advertises itself as the sonarr/radarr for Youtube

[0] https://github.com/meeb/tubesync

From a user-perspective that would be a great user experience, but would remove any possible way for YouTube to show you ads and pay the bills (and keep you “engaged”).

Could be a premium-only feature, I guess?

A Plex UI for YouTube would be fantastic indeed. Does that exist?

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