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by nullcipher 1062 days ago
Maybe I misunderstood this but why does a personal youtube listing / downloading app need ES ? Seems so heavyweight for such a lightweight use.
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It can do full text search (subtitles, comments) right in the ui. It seems to be designed for large scale backups. I use it for a couple hundred important to me or likely to be removed videos and it works excellent, too.

Would have preferred a more unsurprising db like psql or SQLite for my usage, but they also support data dumps so if needed I can escape.

ES is just a Java-based server, isn’t it? Looks like it clocks in at 500MB which is on par with an Electron desktop app.