I built Youtarr, a self-hosted “YouTube DVR” for people who care about clean, media-server-correct libraries. This originated because I did not want to give my kids direct access to YouTube, but still wanted to allow them to access a selected set of channel videos via Plex and slowly evolved into something that I think is worth sharing. It automates channel subscriptions, scheduled downloads, and metadata so Plex/Jellyfin/Emby/Kodi can display the downloaded videos nicely :)

I realize there are some other projects out there that are similar, like PinchFlat, but think this is worth sharing. When I initially created it PinchFlat didn't exist.

This is a hobby project and I have a lot of things on my roadmap, but I'd be interested to get feedback from people here on HN. I have a fairly straightforward guide in my README as well as screenshots.

Anyhow, I hope others might find this useful. If you find bugs that are not in my issues list, please submit and I will try to address as I have time :)

This is exactly what I have been looking for. Thank you for building this! Excited to test it out.