Automate YouTube Downloads on Synology with MeTube and Docker
MeTube is a web GUI for youtube-dl, a command-line tool for downloading videos from YouTube and several hundred other sites. My goal for this project was to set up automation for downloading YouTube videos directly to my Plex library. The primary reason is that I can’t trust myself with YouTube Shorts. Once I open YouTube, I’m likely to spend at least a few minutes browsing through them. The simplest solution was to add friction to the process: I removed the YouTube app from all my devices and blocked the domain using my local DNS server. ...