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Anyone know a good Selfhosted yt-dlp manager?
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When I tried it I got the feeling it's more for people looking to backup/archive entire YouTube channels than those (such as myself) basically just having what is functionally an RSS feed of most recent videos released this week (for example).
But like I said, it's absolutely great at what it does I just found it waaaay too complicated than the simple "use jellyfin as a YouTube app replacement" I was looking for.
Gotcha, that sheds more light. For your use case you'd need to script up some solution that parses the URLs from the feed(s) and sends them to TA's API. I don't think it'd be terribly difficult but, if I wasn't concerned with actually saving the content, I'd turn to something like SmartTube/FreeTube/etc for simplicity and to just stream it.
For OP's use case, throwing specific URLs at something which will download them and then have them pop up in Jellyfin, I can't think of anything easier (at least after the initial setup) than TA. Unless any of the other suggestions here can also handle the metadata for JF, there's gonna be a lot of manual work involved to have videos show up meaningfully and organized in JF.