youtube-dl-webui

Another webui for youtube-dl powered by Flask.

youtube-dl is a powerful command-line based tool aims to download videosfrom Youtube.com and a few more sites. However, it lacks a manager to controland schedule all downloading tasks separately. Also, for people who like meprefers to deploy downloading tasks on a home-server, the ability to managetasks remotely comes essentially.

There has been a webui for youtube available on Github, Youtube-dl-WebUI.The drawbacks of this project is that it writes in PHP and youtube-dlwrites in python. What makes things more worse is that, to use PHP, a webserver is needly inevitably. This complexes service deployment and makes it notvery 'light'.

issues are welcomed!

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Prerequisite

This project is writen under the python 3.6, I haven't test the codes inany other python versions. So, I hightly recommend you to use python 3.6 toavoid any troubles.

Also, we need ffmpeg for postprocessing. Lack of ffmpeg may case some funtions not working.

Install

To install youtube-dl-webui, you have to firstly install youtube-dl andFlask, then simply execute the following command:

python setup.py install

How to use

Defaultly, youtube-dl-webui will find the configuration file in /etcdirectory named youtube-dl-webui.conf. The configuration file, however,need not to be always placed in such a place. Instead, the -c option isused to point out the configuration file.

Configuration file is json formatted. An example configuration filecan be found in the root directory of project.

Currently, not to much options available, use -h to find out all of them.

After everything is ready, simply execute:

youtube-dl-webui -c CONFIGURATION_FILE

A server will be started locally. The default port is 5000.

Note, you have to remove proxy configuration option in your config file. Iwrite it here for illustrating all valid config options.

Docker image

There also exists a docker image to easy the deployment. Check HERE formore.