agrippa1994 / youtube-dl-ui

Simple web based UI for youtube-dl

Youtube Downloader UI

This project uses the Nx monorepository tools.

Prerequisites

• Download and install youtube-dl and ffmpeg and make sure that both tools are in your PATH environment variable. youtube-dl is used for downloading the content and ffmpeg is responsible for converting the videos in the desired format.

Docker Deployment

Create a docker-compose.yml file with following content

version: '3'

services:
  youtube-dl:
    image: agrippa1994/youtube-dl-ui
    command: ["node", "dist/apps/api/main.js"]
    volumes:
      - downloads:/usr/share/app/downloads
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 3333:3333

volumes:
  downloads:

and start it with docker-compose up -d. Navigate to the localhost:3333 and the deployment should be finished.

Development

• First install node.js and the yarn package manager.

  npm install -g yarn

• Checkout this repository and install all dependencies

  yarn install

• Open two terminals and start the backend in the first one

  yarn start api

  and the frontend in the second one

  yarn start youtube-dl

• Navigate with your browser to localhost:4200 and that's it.

Roadmap

• Add support for downloading videos in various formats
• Housekeeping of downloads on the server
• Store download information in the browser (local storage) in order to keep download history