README.md

Web UI for self-hosted yt-dlp

A simple web UI for downloading videos on a remote PC such as a NAS.

Screenshot

Usage

Docker Compose

version: "3.0"
services:
  ytdlp-webui:
    image: ghcr.io/seyys/ytdlp-webui:master
    container_name: ytdlp-webui
    restart: "unless-stopped"
    volumes:
      - <DOWNLOADS>:/app/downloads
    ports:
      - 5000:5000
    depends_on:
      - redis
    links:
      - redis

  redis:
    image: redis:alpine
    restart: "unless-stopped"
    hostname: redis

  celery_worker:
    image: ghcr.io/seyys/ytdlp-webui:master
    command: ["celery", "-A", "make_celery", "worker", "--loglevel", "INFO"]
    depends_on:
      - redis
    restart: "unless-stopped"
    environment:
      - FILENAME_TEMPLATE=%(title)s - [%(id)s].mkv
      - CHMOD=<PERMS> # optional
      - CHOWN_UID=<UID> # optional
      - CHOWN_GID=<GID> # optional
    volumes:
      - <DOWNLOADS>:/app/downloads
      - <CONFIG>:/app/config
    links:
      - redis

Configuration

Edit yt-dlp.conf in the <CONFIG> directory. Refer to the yt-dlp options.

Running locally

Clone this repo, install pip requirements, then run

redis-server & REDIS_URL=redis://localhost celery -A make_celery worker --loglevel INFO & REDIS_URL=redis://localhost flask --app ytdlp_frontend run

To-do

• Add support for batch downloads