Use Youtube-dl json files and thumbnails where available.

[ankenyr]

This should be an option enabled in the plugin. If you are using the youtube-dl program you can ask it to save a copy of the metadata it found as a file and thumbnails. The json file is not the same as what is retrieved via the API.

[ankenyr]

This was requested by MrTimscampi in the jellyfind dev channel. Notes from that conversation.

"this one would be a different interface, ILocalMetadataProvider, that searches for json files"

[sideloading]

+1 this would be a great enhancement

When using --write-description --write-info-json with youtube-dl, it follows the same naming format chosen so it should be simple to link them together with the video file.

[GlassedSilver]

This is great if you want to rebuild a library. Chances are there's always a bunch of videos that have been removed from YouTube as time passes. This way it's scrape once (when downloading) when the information is available for sure, re-use anytime you wish. Actual independence from YouTube relegating Google's servers to what they should be: a dumb pipe for content once, without any expectations of them keeping metadata around, which they will not for deleted videos.

[ankenyr]

This should be available per the latest version.