A server application with bookmarklet that allows you to tell a server to download videos. Created as a replacement for Plex's Watch Later feature.
The best way to install is to use Docker, though this just uses python so you could run things manually.
docker pull nowsci/youtube-dl-api
docker-compose.yml:
youtube-dl-api:
image: nowsci/youtube-dl-api
container_name: youtube-dl-api
volumes:
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
- /storage/video/Watch Later:/data
environment:
- PORT=8080
- TOKEN=037816e898d2497b8a93e3be4d42ada9
- EXTHOST=https://<myhost>.<mydomain>.<tld>:<myport>
- FORMAT=%(title)s - %(uploader)s - %(id)s.%(ext)s
restart: always
A token can be any random string, but you can generate them here: https://www.guidgenerator.com/online-guid-generator.aspx
The external host variable should be whatever URL is used to access the service remotely.
The /data volume is where videos are downloaded to.
FORMAT is optional and can be used to control the filename format for youtube-dl.
I recommend using nginx for this. Below is a sample docker compose and a sample nginx config if you use Lets Encrypt for SSL.
docker-compose.yml:
nginx:
image: nginx
container_name: nginx
volumes:
- ./nginx/config/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro
- /data/certs/letsencrypt:/letsencrypt:ro
ports:
- 443:443
restart: always
./nginx/config/nginx.conf
user www-data;
http {
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
server {
listen 33443;
server_name <myhost>.<mydomain>.<tld>;
gzip off;
ssl on;
ssl_certificate /letsencrypt/live/<mydomain>.<tld>/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /letsencrypt/live/<mydomain>.<tld>/privkey.pem;
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;
ssl_protocols TLSv1.2;
ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES128-GCM-SHA256:kEDH+AESGCM:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:AES:CAMELLIA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!RC4:!MD5:!PSK:!aECDH:!EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA:!EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:!KRB5-DES-CBC3-SHA:!3DES';
add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains" always;
location / {
proxy_pass http://youtube-dl-api:8080;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Ssl on;
}
}
}
Visit https://<myhost>.<mydomain>.<tld>:<myport>?token=037816e898d2497b8a93e3be4d42ada9
Now drage the Watch Later link into your bookmarks.
When on a page with a video, simply click the bookmarklet.
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