youtube-dl-server

This fork of youtube-dl-server has some changes made to the original.

Some of them (not complete list):

Reachable directly under the port (not under the youtube-dl subpath, example usage is shown below)
Removed bootstrap cause it's not necessary for such a small application
Saves and displays a queue and a history (only in RAM, it's list after a restart)

Running

Docker CLI

This example uses the docker run command to create the container to run the app. Here we also use host networking for simplicity. Also note the -v argument. This directory will be used to output the resulting videos

docker run -d --net="host" --name youtube-dl -v /home/core/youtube-dl:/youtube-dl jlnostr/youtube-dl-server

Without docker

You need to have Python 3 and pip (the package manager of python) installed. If that's the case, you can download a copy of this code and execute it locally.

wget https://github.com/jlnostr/youtube-dl-server/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
mv youtube-dl-server-master youtube-dl
cd youtube-dl
pip install -r requirements.txt

There are two ways of editing the config. First, by setting the environment variables that are defined in youtube-dl-server.py, for example:

# This would save the files in a 'data' subdirectory
export YDL_OUTPUT_TEMPLATE="./data/%(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s"

or by editing the app_defaults property of youtube-dl-server.py directly as a permanent solution.

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/ and enter the requested {{url}}.

Curl

curl -X POST --data-urlencode "url={{url}}" http://{{host}}:8080/

Fetch

fetch(`http://${host}:8080/`, {
  method: "POST",
  body: new URLSearchParams({
    url: url,
    format: "bestvideo"
  }),
});

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:!function(){fetch("http://${host}:8080/",{body:new URLSearchParams({url:window.location.href,format:"bestvideo"}),method:"POST"})}();

Implementation

The server uses bottle 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.

nkotak / youtube-dl-server