Web interface of youtube-dl command

To download YouTube videos, yt-dlp command is reliable way. There are many Firefox add-ons to download YouTube videos, however almost all free add-ons does not work as expected.

youtube-dl is not updated recently as of 2021-11-09 and it downloads videos very slowly (throttled). yt-dlp has no problem for download rate.

How to start

This uses yt-dlp, Flask 3.0.0 and Python 3.11.

For pkgsrc users, please run as follows. (Be sure to install pkgsrc/net/yt-dlp 2021.10.22nb1 or later for TVer.)

$ cd ~/youtube-dl-web-ui
$ git clone git@github.com:ryoon/youtube-dl-web-ui.git app
$ cd pkgsrc/bootstrap
$ ./bootstrap --workdir /tmp/bs --unprivileged --prefix ~/youtube-dl-web-ui/pkg
$ echo PYTHON_VERSION_DEFAULT=39 >> ~/youtube-dl-web-ui/pkg/etc/mk.conf
$ cd pkgsrc/www/py-flask
$ ~/youtube-dl-web-ui/pkg/bin/bmake install
$ cd pkgsrc/net/yt-dlp
$ ~/youtube-dl-web-ui/pkg/bin/bmake install
$ cd ~/youtube-dl-web-ui/app
$ LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 ~/youtube-dl-web-ui/pkg/bin/python3.9 app.py

For TVer.jp downloads, you should install FFmpeg. For pkgsrc users, please install multimedia/ffmpeg6 as follows. And your PATH environment variable must contain ~/youtube-dl-web-ui/pkg/bin.

$ cd pkgsrc/multimedia/ffmpeg6
$ ~/youtube-dl-web-ui/pkg/bin/bmake install

And open http://localhost:5000/ with your browser on localhost.

Screenshot

Bugs

• Not secure for the internet use

Plans

• Add a description about nicovideo.jp download

Contact

Ryo ONODERA ryo@tetera.org