yt-dlp Web UI

[jdaviescoates]

@jdaviescoates said in yt-dlp Web UI:

PS while searching for the above I also came across this https://ytdlp.online/ which seems to work well too for the purposes I had in mind

But I have another use case which https://ytdlp.online/ doesn't fulfill: using yt-dlp to directly download media into a Cloudron Volume connected to my Jellyfin, which I think yt-dlp Web UI would be great for

(I already do a similar thing with the Transmission app - download torrents directly into a Cloudron Volume which is mounted to my instance of Jellyfin - but sometimes - e.g. right now - I find things I'd like to watch on my TV using Jellyfin that are on YouTube but for which I can't find any seeded torrents, so right now I'm downloading this YouTube playlist to my laptop, just so I can then upload it all to my Cloudron Volume, which just seems silly really)

[SansGuidon]

I'm frustrated with the lack of such a basic funny utility
So if you are in the mood for workarounds without the need for fully packaging a Cloudron app, here my hacky solution cooked in 1h:

1. Create a LAMP app in Cloudron, something like yt-dlp for a name sounds good xD
2. Mount a volume to your created app. It's recommended but optional, it depends if you want Cloudron to backup your downloaded videos (by default it backups /app/data) ?
3. Open a terminal from Cloudron WEB UI into your freshly created yt-dlp app, and then download/execute this script (https://gitea.zoemp.be/sansguidon/snippets/raw/branch/main/cloudron/awesome-installs/yt-dlp.sh) from my Gitea instance

curl -O https://gitea.zoemp.be/sansguidon/snippets/raw/branch/main/cloudron/awesome-installs/yt-dlp.sh
bash yt-dlp.sh

-> The script installs yt-dlp, prompts for htaccess password and for downloads location (by default /app/data/downloads), writes a config.ini file, configures htaccess,... and creates a /app/data/public/index.php which will be a very minimalistic "web interface to yt-dlp"
4. You might need to follow instructions here https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-yt-dlp and download your YouTube cookies from Firefox/Chrome/Brave (then remove the extension) because some YouTube downloads require authentication.
5. Point your browser at your Cloudron app and upload your cookies txt file then try filling a few youtube links in the textarea.

Screenshot of this minimalistic web app. Feel free to take ownership of the code and customize at need.

[robi]

@SansGuidon you can use https://huggingface.co/spaces/enzostvs/deepsite to generate a nice UI for it..

I am looking into a local implementation.

[SansGuidon]

I've tried but I've quickly reached the free AI limit.
I came up with something like this but I'm not so much into "nice" UI so

I can't judge if that's really better. I've anyway updated the POC.

If not good enough maybe you want to look into it

[robi]

Ok, I got a local version working in LAMP.

Here's what I came up with:

Pretty darn good for a one shot prompt..

[SansGuidon]

Nice work!
I noticed I had to provide quite often my User-Agent and cookies for yt-dlp to work. I'm not sure if anyone experienced the same. In the end I had to find a way to persist those.
And also to give the option to decide which favorite formats to use for content by default.
Also if possible, support list of URLs and playlists

[robi]

Thank you! It was a mini celebration when I got it all to work!

I was surprised in the settings with the MP3 option. I'll be using that for sure.

You can definitely supply some arguments to yt-dlp to handle playlists and it will only download the ones it hasn't yet, it keeps track! Check the docs section below the cookies link you posted.

A good enhancement for the Queue tab of the Cosmo UI

Let me know if you want to hack on the code.

[SansGuidon]

@robi said in yt-dlp Web UI:

Let me know if you want to hack on the code.

Nice, I'm very curious. Send over your POC link and I’ll check it out when I can. No promises

[robi]

Cool, I managed to deploy it here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/rvce/cosmo-dl

[SansGuidon]

It seems that yt-dlp is now requiring a js runtime
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15012
I didn't adapt yet, it's on my low-priority to do list so I'll happily reuse anyone's solution instead