Subscriptions - Save file?

[nojohnso]

If this doesn't exist already, I'd love to see a subscription file that was always updated with any changes and the ability to save to a chosen location. It would make for an easy way to keep subs synced across devices using something like ownCloud.

[PrestonN]

The plan is to eventually support the WebDAV protocol which will allow syncing with various cloud services including NextCloud/ownCloud and Dropbox. There isn't any ETA on it but it will likely be the first thing I work on after a stable release (maybe before, not sure yet).

For now, I've heard of a few cases where users have had success using Syncthing between different systems. You can sync the folder at #151 for your respective systems and should see it update across devices.

[microraptor]

WebDAV seems like the most elegant solution for this. Then perhaps an integration for NewPipe could also be made as discussed in #1026. I just want to point out that the user @T-vK already started developing this a while back, but doesn't seem to have opened a PR for it:
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#1163 (comment)
The code he wrote:
T-vK@1df2505

[therealrobster]

Just chiming in, sync would be amazing. NewPipe to FT and FT to FT.

[ChunkyProgrammer]

https://www.npmjs.com/package/webdav seems like a good option. Would need to find a way to keep passwords secure and not stored as plaintext on the user's system or only use oAuth

[Skyedra]

Would love to be able to do cross-device sync, particularly via SyncThing.

I can see webdav support being useful, but I'd like to suggest an (automated) JSON / plain text file synchronization target as well so it can work with non-cloud sync options (such as SyncThing).

I do see there is a workaround referenced above (#151), but it seems like syncing the database files would have the same concurrency risks as simmstein's method...? Additionally, resolving sync conflicts with binary files tends to be quite painful.

[flupkede]

I personally don't see the need for webdav, it's not the greatest protocol around. I use Resilio sync and if one would use dropbox or syncthing it could all work, if there would be a way that freetube could handle the overwrite of json files (an update coming from a different source) whilst running.

[Skyedra]

Also, it might be best for each freetube instance to write to its own json inside a particular folder, and the active freetube instance reads/watches all json files in the target folder to look for changes. This way there would not be sync conflicts if two freetube instances are watching things at the same time (ie: music playing in living room while watching content in office, etc), or devices get disconnected from network temporarily, etc.