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Web interface for yt-dlp? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What's a good way to have a simple self hosted (in Docker would be nice) web interface for starting yt-dlp jobs?

Preferably, I would like to have pre-defined yt-dlp commands and in the interface I can just add an URL and select which command to chose.

I know I could also use JDownloader or other tools to download the media, but I specifically would like to use yt-dlp because I have multiple use case commands already defined.

Thanks for the help!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I like MeTube. It can download from a ton of sources, not just YouTube.

I use it all the time to rip videos from tiktok or Instagram whenever my friends share something with me, since I don't use those services.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Thanks, this looks promising, especially the YTDL_OPTIONS variable. I'll give it a try

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nice, I think switching to this. If I made yt playlist would it download it automatically each time I add a video to the playlist?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it monitors stuff consistently, or if it does, I don't know how to utilize it.

YouTubeDL-Material supports playlists and subscriptions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I was using tubesync for awhile. It would download once a day iirc. Just throwing that out there if anyone wanted that.

This seems more on par with my use though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

marcobaobao/yt-dlp-webui

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I whipped up a basic page with PHP and just used XAMPP when I was on Windows. I recently switched my daily driver pc to linux and haven't updated it yet. I only used it to save MP3s, videos at yt-dlp default "best available" settings, and a custom option that lists available video/audio formats where I can specify the ID to grab of each. No validation or sanity checking etc, just some switch statements and basic form functions.

main page

custom selection

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago

https://getvideo.at/

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

This really needs better language on the Lemmy side, even knowing what it does it's very confusing.