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I'm looking for a server I can host in my home that has a simple ui where I can put in URLs for download and have them all show up on my Jellyfin. Bonus if there is VPN support.

Update: Thanks to everyone for the suggestions! Several projects to check out: youtube-dl, pinchflat, ytptube, metube, tubearchivist, yt-dlp-webui, ytzero, igloo, youtarr

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[–] __hetz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago

I can say that TubeArchivist is essentially single-user. Multiple accounts on a single TA instance will share the same underlying library with a ./library_dir/channel_id/video_id.ext directory structure. You could run an instance per user for individual TA libraries but, last I looked, the Jellyfin plugin doesn't support multiple TA instances so it still wouldn't be able to get the metadata from any instance(s) other than the one it's configured to. It was a requested feature, on the plugin's GitHub, but I'm not sure if it's actively being implemented. The only workaround I can think of for now would be using a shared TA library and then manually tagging the videos in JF and using parental controls to hide them. Billy won't see vids tagged #SusieYT, Susie has #BillyYT added to her blacklist, etc.