New bnhf/olivetin:latest (aka bnhf/olivetin:2025.09.26) pushed this morning with Project One-Click support for Pinchflat and YouTub3r:
And, if you're hip to awesomeness of Organizr, here's a transparent background Pinchflat icon:
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Thanks! I finally got this working. Now just have to figure out some of the failure I get in Pinchflat. Trying to apply their suggestion on cookies file for the errors I'm getting. Still doesn't work for some files. At least I am getting some others.
Don't want to off-track the Topic, but Pinchflat times out sometimes and crashes the container.
It's on a development break for now too, while the dev pursues another project.
Interesting. I wonder if there is another downloader that would create the same structure youtub3r needs. @maddox ?
I had been using mediahuman downloader before.
I haven't used it, but TubeArchivist ?
I will check it out. I guess as long as it names the files as youtub3r wants it and creates a json file as expected. Will see.
pinchflat works fine - you just have to give it time for larger channels
If the videos are age protected you have more issues as you need to use cookies which are currently not recommended
I am just downloading hiking videos, nothing age restricted. But it keeps complaining it won't download due to bot related restrictions or something.
Either way, too much fiddling at this point.
Nature of the beast - youtube puts up roadblocks continuously - yt-dlp is in a war of attrition to continue downloading videos
you may have hit time related soft ban - it will probably not work for 12-24 hours and start up again
He did just put out a /dev update which you may want to try
Looks like the release yesterday is pretty important (if you want it to download videos!)
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404#issuecomment-3330980464
@maddox Thanks for sharing this nice project. One thing I'm noticing is that for some videos, thumbnails are showing in the server/web UI but not client devices. Is youtub3r grabbing the local thumbnail files or using the URL from info.json? If it's the json, I'm wondering if it's a webp issue.
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This is actually an issue in our image caching on Channels DVR Server. We're looking into it.
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Devs, feel free to move this somewhere else if necessary.
I've experienced the Pinchflat container crashing about once per day.
Closest (unresolved) issue I could find that matches mine is this one https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat/issues/762
Anyone else seeing this?
I have the container set to restart unless stopped, so doesn't appear to cause any other issues, but I wonder if the database is getting corrupted. Not sure how to check that other than asking the dev.
This should be resolved in the latest server pre-release:
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