jakop345 / YoutubeDlWebui

A (simple) web interface for youtube-dl

What is it?

YoutubeDlWebui (abreviated to ytdlwui) is a (simple) frontend to the youtube-dl unix command.

This frontend provide a simple webpage to have a video downloaded, and receive a link to this video by mail.

The application is using the BSD license, as seen in the LICENSE file.

TODO

• Automatic deletion of retreived files
• Have more control other what is being retrieved
• Handle playlists
• Make an API

Installation requirements

Django==1.4
celery==3.0.1
django-celery==3.0.1
python-dateutil==2.1

Installing those packages should bring all the required dependencies.

As an alternative you can use the requirements.txt file with

pip -r requirements.txt

Configuration

More than the standard configuration for a Django application, you’ll need to define the following variables your project settings

Standard Django settings that will need to be defined

###DEFAULT_FROM_MAIL ###EMAIL_HOST_USER ###EMAIL_HOST ###EMAIL_PORT ###EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD

Parameter for Celery

###BROKER_URL How does Celery handle the message queue.

Application specific parameters

###DOWNLOAD_DIRECTORY This is the directory where the downloads will take place. This directory must be writable by the user which will run the Celery tasks.

###BASE_URL Here you define the front part of the URL that will be embeded in the mail. A webserver must be configured to serve file located in DOWNLOAD_DIRECTORY at this url.