akarca / youtube-dl-server

Web / REST interface for downloading youtube videos onto a server.

youtube-dl-server

Very spartan Web and REST interface for downloading youtube videos onto a server. starlette + yt-dlp.

Python

If you have python ^3.6.0 installed in your PATH you can simply run like this, providing optional environment variable overrides inline.

python -m uvicorn youtube-dl-server:app --port 8123 --host 0.0.0.0

Usage

Start a download remotely

Downloads can be triggered by supplying the {{url}} of the requested video through the Web UI or through the REST interface via curl, etc.

HTML

Just navigate to http://{{host}}:8080/youtube-dl and enter the requested {{url}}.

#### Bookmarklet

Add the following bookmarklet to your bookmark bar so you can conviently send the current page url to your youtube-dl-server instance.

```javascript
javascript:!function(){window.location="http://${host}:8123/youtube-dl/q?url=" + window.location.href}();

Implementation

The server uses starlette for the web framework and youtube-dl to handle the downloading. The integration with youtube-dl makes use of their python api.

This docker image is based on python:alpine and consequently alpine:3.8.