Technically impressive! That’s a HUGE collection!

I am curious, though, as to your reason for doing this?.. Storing and maintaining 150 TB of small video files is going to be costly and time consuming…. While I do understand that it may be a good idea to archive some specific content that you may fear will otherwise be lost over time, in this case the volume is huge that you can never even watch all of it — let alone know if the content is something worth keeping?

No offense, everyone is free to spend their own time and money on whatever. But I do get curious what the plan is behind all this?

Whats going on at Youtube?

No offense, but I don’t get it.

One could safeguard thousands of movies, song, art of any kind, that might disappear because some of it becomes lost media. Instead some prefer to backup content made for an ad platform.

I genuinely want to know what these 1m are about

Are you willing to share your collection?

My immediate reaction is “why?!?”.

Followed almost instantly by “well, someone should probably be doing it”. Then “I’m really glad it isn’t me”. So I guess thanks for your service.

I've been pretty selective, mostly YouTube channels that do 'Tech Documentary Stuff' cause I enjoy re-watching that. LGR would be a prime example.

However, I integrate all of these in my Kodi infrastructure, so only large channels have metadata online in the TVDB or the like.

For those without, I'd love some tips on something to generate Kodi compatible series metadata directly from YouTube.

I'm using TubeArchivist as well. My collection is slightly larger than the OP's at this point. I collect everything from personally-enjoyable and re-enjoyable content, random stuff at risk during policy changes, to stuff from my early internet years that seems to slowly rot away on the internet. I also like the new themes

What is going on at YT?

Can I just use this as a downloader and then move the collection to Jellyfin? Or is there a way to link this to Jellyfin?

I've been using a python script I wrote years ago and a config file with channel links / folder directories. it looks like I need to check out TubeArchivist after reading this thread.