I'm using https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp to download my favorite videos, and after years of using it, its worth the effort. Many good memories would have been inaccessible otherwise.
To expand on this, setup one of the various yt-dlp "servers" (It's just software, often in a docker container. I have an old one that uses youtube-dl, I need to update it) where you can post over to them and it will download the video and drop it in a folder somewhere. Then setup a Shortcut (iOS), bookmarklet, etc so that on any platform you are on, you are 1 click away from kicking off a download. Then sort/organize those videos as you see fit at a later date.
Bonus points for putting your intake folder in a place your media server can see.
Sounds great. Any shortcut/bookmarklet code or pointers to servers to share? I'm sure readers could set that up themselves, but time/attention are always limited resources.
In my case I stuck my instance (not that exact software but similar) behind Caddy and added basic auth. Then I just setup Shortcuts or bookmarklets that just did:
curl -X POST --data-urlencode "url={{url}}" http://{{address}}:8080/yt/q
Where {{url}} was the current page I was on and {{address}} was where my instance was available (with username:password added to it, example: "https://user:pass@ytdlp.mydomain.com/yt/q").
I've started just in the last couple weeks. Series with entries on thetvdb or imdb go on Jellyfin, mixed in with ordinary TV shows. Works great. Others I'm squirreling away for now (I don't like how Jellyfin handles web videos that don't have a TV metadata entry, even with the 3rd part addon for using Youtube's metadata, so I'm waiting for a better solution or until I get bored and write my own metadata for those others)
