youtube-dl-interface

The goal of this project is to offer an easy way to download youtube videos (mp3 for audio or mp4 for video).

It is based on youtube-dl so check it out ! https://youtube-dl.org/

Features

• Download of single youtube video as video (mp4) or audio (mp3).

URL like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

• Download of playlist as zip archive (also video or audio).

URL like https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2R75x3ZazUDRZKsDU9-pi85DJ3WdGudI

• Support UTF-8 characters (hello K-pop fans)

Content

This project contains:

• a VueJS application called interface which provides a web page
• a Flask application called server, this one is running the downloads
• a Docker configuration for running both

Architecture

Requirements

• Docker 1.13.0+
• npm / yarn

Project setup

• Clone the project

• Install the dependencies:

  • cd interface
  • npm install
  • cd ..

• Setup your environment: cp .env.example .env

You can choose the video quality of the downloads by setting the VIDEO_QUALITY variable.

Be aware that this will only impact the speed of the download and that this is highly dependent on your download speed.

• Running the project: docker-compose up

• Go to localhost:8080 on your browser and start downloading your favorites videos !

Future possible features

• Logger to follow the progress of the download (especially for playlists)
• Add other pages to interface (About, etc.)
• Add page with more options for the download (specific format, etc.)

Things to do

• Enhance the interface
• Add different configuration for project with/without Docker

References

• youtube-dl: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

• youtube-dl-server by manbearwiz: https://github.com/manbearwiz/youtube-dl-server