Adding to Raindrop (or other "notifications")

[derekantrican]

I've written a very similar system to TubeSync and am eager to stop maintaining one of my personal projects and help out here :)

The main thing I use my system for is adding new YouTube videos to Raindrop.io (I used to use Pocket, but that has since been deprecated). How would I add this in TubeSync? I don't see anything in the web UI - should I be creating a custom task of some sort?

Maybe this is thinking too big, but if TubeSync is claiming to be the "Sonarr for YouTube" (according to the README) then maybe it should have a notification system like Sonarr where notifications can be sent for new videos

[tcely]

I'd personally add a new media server type if I wanted to do notifications for each new video.

Either that or use a custom post processor command to trigger a new notification for each video after it was moved into place.

If you already have Jellyfin or Plex working with TubeSync, then a plugin to handle notifications there might make more sense.

[derekantrican]

It may be odd, but I don't want to use TubeSync to do downloads - just for the "YouTube source management" plus this notification idea. So I haven't set up any media servers.

I'll look around in the code to see what I could add to. Are there already custom post processors you could link me to?

[tcely]

The indexing task is where you want to start looking.

I added a stupid little post processor to check that we don't delete videos when yt-dlp was returning partial playlists for a while.

tubesync/tubesync/sync/youtube.py

Lines 172 to 177 in b24441d

	postprocessors = user_set('postprocessors', opts, default_postprocessors)
	postprocessors.append(dict(
	key='Exec',
	when='playlist',
	exec_cmd="/usr/bin/env bash /app/full_playlist.sh '%(id)s' '%(playlist_count)d'",
	))

https://github.com/meeb/tubesync/blob/main/tubesync/full_playlist.sh

There are also some examples in old issues.

#302 (comment)

[gregoiregentil]

And what about people not using docker??? /app/full_playlist.sh is obviously not found

[gregoiregentil]

Full log of my service:

Jan 12 09:12:06 python3[69347]: 2026-01-12 09:12:06,427 [tubesync/INFO] Deleting completed tasks older than 7 days (end_at before 2026-01-05 09:12:06.427329+00:00)
Jan 12 09:12:16 python3[69347]: 2026-01-12 09:12:16,289 [tubesync/WARNING] [youtube:tab] Incomplete data received. Retrying (1/3)...
Jan 12 09:12:17 python3[69347]: 2026-01-12 09:12:17,399 [tubesync/WARNING] [youtube:tab] Incomplete data received. Retrying (2/3)...
Jan 12 09:12:18 python3[69347]: 2026-01-12 09:12:18,513 [tubesync/WARNING] [youtube:tab] Incomplete data received. Retrying (3/3)...
Jan 12 09:12:19 python3[69347]: 2026-01-12 09:12:19,633 [tubesync/WARNING] [youtube:tab] Incomplete data received. Giving up after 3 retries
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[70222]: bash: /app/full_playlist.sh: No such file or directory
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]: [2026-01-12 09:12:27,257] ERROR:huey:69347:Unhandled exception in task 7ec83e89-6467-4198-b8fb-b45dd20599bf.
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:   File "/usr/local/modules/tubesync/env/lib/python3.13/site-packages/huey/api.py", line 394, in _execute
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:     task_value = task.execute()
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:   File "/usr/local/modules/tubesync/env/lib/python3.13/site-packages/huey/api.py", line 837, in execute
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:     return func(*args, **kwargs)
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:   File "/usr/local/modules/tubesync/env/lib/python3.13/site-packages/django_huey/__init__.py", line 23, in inner
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:     return fn(*args, **kwargs)
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:   File "/usr/local/modules/tubesync/tubesync/sync/tasks.py", line 479, in index_source
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:     videos = source.index_media()
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:   File "/usr/local/modules/tubesync/tubesync/sync/models/source.py", line 586, in index_media
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:     videos = self.get_index('videos')
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:   File "/usr/local/modules/tubesync/tubesync/sync/models/source.py", line 569, in get_index
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:     response = indexer(self.get_index_url(url_type), days=days)
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:   File "/usr/local/modules/tubesync/tubesync/sync/youtube.py", line 256, in get_media_info
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:     response = y.extract_info(url, download=False)
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:   File "/usr/local/modules/tubesync/env/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1685, in extract_info
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:     return self.__extract_info(url, self.get_info_extractor(key), download, extra_info, process)
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:   File "/usr/local/modules/tubesync/env/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1696, in wrapper
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:     return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:   File "/usr/local/modules/tubesync/env/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1852, in __extract_info
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:     return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:   File "/usr/local/modules/tubesync/env/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1981, in process_ie_result
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:     return self.__process_playlist(ie_result, download)
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:   File "/usr/local/modules/tubesync/env/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 2155, in __process_playlist
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:     ie_result = self.run_all_pps('playlist', ie_result)
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:   File "/usr/local/modules/tubesync/env/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 3782, in run_all_pps
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:     info = self.run_pp(pp, info)
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:   File "/usr/local/modules/tubesync/env/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 3760, in run_pp
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:     files_to_delete, infodict = pp.run(infodict)
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:                                 ~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:   File "/usr/local/modules/tubesync/env/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yt_dlp/postprocessor/common.py", line 23, in run
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:     ret = func(self, info, *args, **kwargs)
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:   File "/usr/local/modules/tubesync/env/lib/python3.13/site-packages/yt_dlp/postprocessor/exec.py", line 30, in run
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]:     raise PostProcessingError(f'Command returned error code {return_code}')
Jan 12 09:12:27 python3[69347]: yt_dlp.utils.PostProcessingError: Command returned error code 127

[tcely]

And what about people not using docker??? /app/full_playlist.sh is obviously not found

Create your own bash script to do whatever you want. Or download that one in the example from the link I posted just under the code block.

(I'm not sure what you are looking for since you have commandeered this issue for some reason.)

[gregoiregentil]

I didn't take possession of this issue. My understanding is that this script has been added following the report of derekantrican. And unfortunately, this modification doesn't take into account the fact that the project can be installed in a non-containerized environment (as mentioned on the homepage).

I'm not using docker but I guess that you could launch this script relatively to the python rather than as a full hard docker-only path. I personally patched it to ./full_playlist.sh as it's at the same level as manage.py.

[step 10 of home page is not recognized "./manage.py process_tasks", I guess that it's djangohuey].

[tcely]

I didn't take possession of this issue.

We disagree on that point.

My understanding is that this script has been added following the report of derekantrican.

Your understanding is incorrect.

Are there already custom post processors you could link me to?

I was asked for an example of how to use a post processor script. That is only an example script.

And unfortunately, this modification doesn't take into account the fact that the project can be installed in a non-containerized environment (as mentioned on the homepage).

I'm not using docker but I guess that you could launch this script relatively to the python rather than as a full hard docker-only path. I personally patched it to ./full_playlist.sh as it's at the same level as manage.py.

You are better off just removing that script entirely.

https://github.com/tcely/tubesync/blob/tcely-issue-1165-example/tubesync/sync/youtube.py

[step 10 of home page is not recognized "./manage.py process_tasks", I guess that it's djangohuey].

tubesync/config/root/etc/s6-overlay/s6-rc.d/tubesync-worker/run

Lines 3 to 4 in bd576f7

	exec nice -n "${TUBESYNC_NICE:-1}" s6-setuidgid app \
	/usr/bin/python3 /app/manage.py process_tasks

No. That's actually the previous tasks system.

After #924 a few independent processes were started, each working through its own queue. Then that buggy tasks system (for example see: #252 #933) was replaced with django-huey running 4, independent, resource specific queues. #1223

Feel free to update those manual steps with your own pull request.

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