¶ Intro
Pinchflat is a self-hosted app for downloading YouTube content built using yt-dlp. It’s designed to be lightweight, self-contained, and easy to use. You set up rules for how to download content from YouTube channels or playlists and it’ll do the rest, periodically checking for new content. It’s perfect for people who want to download content for use in with a media center app (Plex, Jellyfin, Kodi) or for those who want to archive media!
¶ Availability
Please check our application chart to see which GigaDrive Plans are eligible to install this application.
¶ Features
- Powerful naming system so content is stored where and how you want it
- Easy-to-use web interface with presets to get you started right away
- First-class support for media center apps like Plex, Jellyfin, and Kodi.
- Supports serving RSS feeds to your favourite podcast app.
- Automatically downloads new content from channels and playlists.
- Uses a novel approach to download new content more quickly than other apps.
- Supports downloading audio content.
- Custom rules for handling YouTube Shorts and livestreams.
- Apprise support for notifications.
- Allows automatically redownloading new media after a set period.
- This can help improve the download quality of new content or improve SponsorBlock tags.
- Optionally automatically delete old content.
- Advanced options like setting cutoff dates and filtering by title .
- Reliable hands-off operation.
- Can pass cookies to YouTube to download your private playlists.
- Sponsorblock integration.
- [Advanced] allows custom yt-dlp options.
- [Advanced] supports running custom scripts when after downloading/deleting media.
¶ Installing Pinchflat
- Navigate to the Application Manager page and search for
pinchflat. - Click icon to open the installation window and tap Install to start the installation process.
- Once the installation is complete, click icon to open the Access Info page. Then click Go To Application to access
pinchflat.
¶ Configuring Pinchflat
- Before using the app, you’ll need to create a YouTube API key to prevent any errors. If you’re unsure how to do this, check out this guide: Generating a YouTube API key.
- After generating your personal API key, go to Config > Settings and add it there.