youtube-dl-web

youtube-dl wrapped in a simple web server.

Usage

Meant to be used with Docker, but it would work locally if you have youtube-dl installed as well.

docker run -it --rm -p 8080:8080 -v $PWD/data:/app/data w33ble/youtube-dl-web

Then hit http://localhost:8080, passing in a url and optionally a format query parameter for where to download from. For example:

http://localhost:8080?url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE7VzlLtp-4

You can also pass in additional arguments that would normally be passed on the command line as query parameters in the URL, like so:

http://localhost:8080?url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE7VzlLtp-4&format=mp3

Automatic cleanup

By default, this image will both send the download in the web response as well as save it to disk. This is handy if you're saving those downloads via a volume.

If you don't want to keep the downloads around, you can use the REMOVE_DOWNLOAD environment to tell the server to clean up the download after sending it in the web request. Setting the value to 1 or true is all it takes:

docker run -it --rm -p 8080:8080 --env REMOVE_DOWNLOAD=1 w33ble/youtube-dl-web

Running it like this, the result from youtube-dl will only be useful from the web response. The file is cleaned up after sending so using the shared volume doesn't make sense.

Deploy to Docker Hub

docker build . -t youtube-dl-web
docker tag youtube-dl w33ble/youtube-dl-web:latest
docker push w33ble/youtube-dl-web:latest

License

MIT © w33ble