A simple proxy to youtube-dl that enables downloading of video, audio or both of a valid youtube-dl url.
It is still a work in progress, most of the parameters are hard coded at this point, the validation is basic among other simplicities. See TODO below for details.
- youtube-dl
- golang (for development)
First get the code the Go way.
go get github.com/kmwenja/yservice
Then head over to where the code was cloned
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/kmwenja/yservice
Run it
go run main.go
Or build it
go build
./yservice
It's a server that starts listening on 8080 for a POST request that contains
(in form-data) the url and the download type (AUDIO, VIDEO, ALL). The server then
pushes this download to a channel from which a separate goroutine picks it up and
downloads the url according to the type specified. VIDEO will run youtube-dl with no
arguments other than -c, AUDIO will run youtube-dl with an additional -x argument,
and ALL will do both. The server prints out on stdout various events including
the queueing, starting and success or failure of the downloads.
- trace download failures
- enable checking of download status
- validate url to be downloaded as valid youtube-dl
- choose filetype of download
- configure the service's parameters eg download folder, server port
- start explicit builds and releases