youtube-dl-server

Very spartan Web and REST interface for downloading youtube videos onto a server. bottle + youtube-dl.

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.

example

Enabled port forwarding(80 - 8080), volume mount(download dir), keep /usr directory in this case.

docker run -d -p 80:8080 --name youtube-dl --mount type=bind,src=<download directory>,dst=/youtube-dl -v v1:/usr ycrack/youtube-dl-webui

Same for PowerShell.

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}}/youtube-dl and enter the requested {{url}}.

Curl

curl -X POST --data-urlencode "url={{url}}" http://{{address}}/youtube-dl/q

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:slim and consequently debian:stretch-slim.

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Changes from the original

1. Omit waste code and addjusted in README.md.
2. Rewrite it to appropriate command in README.md.
3. Add code for install PhantomJS to Dockerfile. (because it is used for several sites, in youtube-dl.)