[idea] pre-download items in the Watch Later list

[JulienPalard]

[idea] pre-download items in the Watch Later list

[Schmiddiii]

A nice idea, but I believe that this should either be a setting or a per-video option as most people probably do not want to download the video on mobile data. Another idea would be making the downloading independent of the watch-later list, e.g. a new button, and clicking on the video after downloading plays the downloaded video instead of fetching the video. A GUI indicator for downloaded videos would probably also be nice.

[Schmiddiii]

I have now implemented basic download-functionality to Tubefeeder. I have decided against doing it in the watch-later-list, instead every video has a "download"-button hidden behind a expandable area next to the "watch-later"-button.

Note that this will download the highest quality video, which can take a long time. There is no real indicator of the download-percentage, the "currently-playing"-indicator is used.
To change the download-setting, change the DOWNLOADER environmental variable, for example to yt-dlp -f 'bestvideo[height<=480]+bestaudio/best[height<=480]' --output '$HOME/Downloads/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s' for the best 480p video.
Do not forget to set the output directory to Downloads as the Flatpak only has access to this directory.
Also notice the use of yt-dlp instead of youtube-dl as this is built into the Flatpak.

Please test out the new functionality in Flathub-beta.