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Hi everyone, I decided there simply were not enough docker apps for downloading Youtube videos, and so I made the situation worse :p

In all seriousness, I couldn't find one that fulfilled all my desires in a YT downloader, so I wrote my own in python using pytubefix and streamlit. It's still fairly rough, but it works, and i'd love to get your feedback. Installation is just a simple docker compose.

services:
    pytube-gui:
        container_name: pytube-gui
        image: artisanbytecrafter/pytube-gui:develop
        ports:
            - 8501:8501
        volumes:
            - /path/to/downloads:/app/downloads # set to where you want downloads to go

Please let me know if you run into any issues, or have any feedback. I do still have a long list :)

Source code: https://codeberg.org/ArtisanByteCrafter/pytube-gui

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're ok, it's a fair question. The initial want arose from my son asking me to download YT videos for him to watch offline, and the various youtube-dl, yt-dlp, pytube, etc based solutions all being in various stages of broken, due to how youtube always changes things on their end. I chose an underlying library (pytubefix) that seems to be fast in updating when YT breaks things. Nothing in my app is revolutionary on never seen before, except maybe the ability to choose and combine the exact stream you want, i'm not sure. I took everything I liked in various solutions and put them together to work how i wanted. Then I though maybe someone else might like it too, so i shared it :) I work on it when i want to and just kinda go in the direction i want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you! Also thanks for not getting discouraged to answer by all this comment mess.