Help wanted

[chibicitiberiu]

With 2 small children, it's really hard for me to find time to work on other projects, and it appears I'm the only developer left. I would like not to let this project die, and I need your help!

[girlpunk]

Happy to help, anything in particular you want doing?

[chibicitiberiu]

Thank you for your offer, you can look into the opened issues.

However, due to various reasons and limitations I encountered, I decided to work on a complete replacement for ytsm that takes it to a new level, so I will do no further development on ytsm. The replacement project is called Regard and is written in Blazor and Asp.Net Core. I think it would be best to continue any further development there.

[XenGi]

Wait so you don't have time to maintain a django project and therefore you rewrite it in microsoft stuff?
You're decision, but I think that is a loss. I'd rather put my own youtube-dl script together then install a bunch of microsoft things on my server.

I'll probably never understand why the whole warez/media download scene is written is .net and the like..

Here's my solution btw:

#!/bin/sh

channels=("MxRPlays"
"ColdFusion"
"GardinerBryant"
"TheHoonigans")

IFS=""
for channel in ${channels[*]}; do
    echo ">>> Downloading $channel"
    mkdir -p $channel
    cd $channel
    yt-dlp --dateafter now-1day --sponsorblock-mark all --sponsorblock-remove sponsor https://www.youtube.com/c/${channel}
    cd ..
done

Run it via cron/systemd-timer daily and you're done.

[chibicitiberiu]

To make it clear why I decided to migrate:

• Django lacks integration with any of the modern frontend frameworks. You have to basically do all the integration manually.
• When trying to setup django for use as a REST backend, I encountered numerous issues with the available django + REST frameworks, the biggest of which is JWT authentication which isn't that great. I would prefer to use a more mature framework for something as critical as that. After some testing, I realized that it would be much easier to use ASP.NET core as a backend than try to make Django work like that.
• I would like to add websocket support, to make the communication between frontend and backend more efficient. Django doesn't have built-in support for that, and the best option is the "Channels" library. Unfortunately, when I wanted to test it, the pypi package for "channels" was broken, some of the native parts wouldn't compile on any of my systems.

Some of the features I want to add are:

• the ability to work better with youtube-dl forks,
• to automate managing and updating youtube-dl,
• decoupling from the YouTube API and being able to function without it

This project is put together in a pretty hackish way, so adding these would mean major rewrites of large parts of the project. Together with the frontend stuff, I think the best course of action is to rewrite it, and do it properly. The only reason I chose .NET is because it has a very good infrastructure for what I want to build, and I can use C# for the frontend (I'm not a fan of React/Vue and other javascript frameworks).

Wait so you don't have time to maintain a django project and therefore you rewrite it in microsoft stuff?

What I meant is I don't have time to work on both at the same time... so I only chose one.

[girlpunk]

install a bunch of microsoft things on my server.

So you're fine with installing a bunch of Python things instead?

Here's my solution btw:

Then why are you complaining about this free software, and not doing that? After all, nothing is stopping you from releasing a competitor to ytsml/sonarr/radarr/etc

To make it clear why I decided to migrate

imho, all of these are good reasons to migrate. I've added the decoupling to my fork but it wasn't easy, and will likely rewrite it in C# as well.

[XenGi]

Sorry, I might got a bit carried away there. Wasn't in the best mood.
You're right. This is open source. Who am I to force any decisions on you. Do whatever you think is right and if people find it useful that's even better. If you like the MS ecosystem I won't and shouldn't stop you from using it.
I just don't like it but that's all down to personal preference I guess.
I hope your new project is a big success. The screenshots of the frontend look really cool.