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Working on a frontend to youtube-dl which doubles as a fully-functional video-hosting website (prometheus.tube)

submitted 11 months ago by ok_this_is_epic569@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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[–] somebodyknows_@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What I miss is added metadata

[–] ok_this_is_epic569@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

as in?

[–] AlteRedditor@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The description of the video and all the metadata you can grab from YouTube.

[–] ok_this_is_epic569@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I already grab the description, title, author, and tags (stored in Postgres) and write the metadata dump to disk alongside the video