youtube-dl-nas

Simple youtube download micro web queue server. To prevent a queue attack when using NAS as a server, a making account was created when creating a docker container, and a new UI was added. This Queue server based on python3 and debian Linux.

It is a modified versiob based on: https://github.com/hyeonsangjeon/youtube-dl-nas

Changes in this version are mainly related to youtube-dl configuration through Docker ENV variables. Following new variables have been added:

• RATE - set a custom max download rate, default: '10M'
• MIN_SLEEP - minimum numbers of second to sleep between downloading next file, applies to playlist download, default: '5'
• MAX_SLEEP - maximum numbers of seconds to sleep between downloading next file, applies to playlist download, default: '30'
• RM_CACHE_DIR - in case of download problems, you may want to clear cache before each download, set to 'true' or 'yes' to activate, default: 'true'
• PLAYLIST - if set to 'yes' or 'true' files will be stored in sub-folders named after playlist name or 'NA' if the files are not part of a playlist, default: 'true'
• SKIP_TEMP - if set to 'true' skips downloading content to temp folder and moving it to destination. It downloads files directly to the destination folder. Useful in connection with PLAYLIST as the playlist folders are not moved correctly. Undesired side effect is that in the destination folders, there can be partial downloads which need cleaning. default: 'true'

Docker image on Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/arhef/youtube-dl-nas

• web server : bottle
• youtube-dl : youtube-dl.
• base : python queue server.
• websocket : bottle-websocket.

Update Info

• 2018.09.28 : [Add functional option] Resolution selectable, Downloaded result html table representation
• 2018.10.01 : [Minor Patch] Patching worker thread dead symptom when moving the browser during download, add resolution 1440p, 2160p(4k)
• 2018.10.06 : [Patch] Prevent thread death due to websocket exception in walker thread after download, add REST API
• 2018.11.08 : [Patch] binary excution error update, : 'youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract Initial JS player signature function name'. some url like(https://youtu.be/), Handling Variables on Application Ports for Using the docker Network Host Mode,Specify release version in html page
• 2019.02.13 : [Patch] binary excution error update, : 'caused by ExtractorError("Could not find JS function 'encodeURIComponent'; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug ..'. Binary Excution file update docker rebuild,Specify release version in html page
• 2020.02.10 : [Patch] Modifying so this will work behind HTTPS as well.
• 2020.04.07 : [Patch] Audio only option for web-ui and REST call. Change username field type for compatiblity
• 2019.04.25 : [Patch] Failed to fetch jessie backports repository patch during build Dockerfile, Add Scheduler update "pip install -U youtube-dl" once a day.You no longer need to update pip youtube-dl when inexecutable in the container.
• 2020.08.12 : [Patch] Added audio-mp3 option
• 2020.11.13 : [Patch] Added docker optinal variable to support youtube-dl proxy
• 2021.05.03 : [Patch] Fix random mkv or mp4 format when specifying resolution

You can check the status of download queue processing in real time using websocket from the message below the text box.

How to use this image

To run docker, excute this command in a ternimal:

The docker volume parameter -v is used by the queue operation to process the downloaded mount path to the host server

• downloaded docker volume path : '/downfolder'
• MY_ID, MY_PW : Required variables when you login validation, The start character '!' '$' '&' is does not apply.
• TZ : optional variable.

docker options are as follows,

To run docker, excute this command in a ternimal:

docker run -d --name youtube-dl -e MY_ID=modenaf360 -e MY_PW=1234  -v /volume2/youtube-dl:/downfolder -p 8080:8080 modenaf360/youtube-dl-nas

If want set TimeZone, example using in South-Korea web content

docker run -d --name youtube-dl -e TZ=Asia/Seoul -e MY_ID=modenaf360 -e MY_PW=1234 -v /volume2/youtube-dl:/downfolder -p 8080:8080 modenaf360/youtube-dl-nas

example, how to using docker host network and changing the application port :

# use --net=host -e APP_PORT=custom_port
docker run -d --name youtube-dl --net=host -e APP_PORT=9999 -e MY_ID=modenaf360 -e MY_PW=1234  -v /volume2/youtube-dl:/downfolder modenaf360/youtube-dl-nas

Request restful API & Response

curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/youtube-dl/rest \
  -d '{
	"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9mO5q6GiAc",
	"resolution":"best", 
	"id":"iamgroot",
	"pw":"1234"
}'

{
    "success": true,
    "msg": "download has started",
    "Remaining downloading count": "7"
}

If you want to get into docker container os, excute this command [1] :

docker exec -i -t youtube-dl /bin/bash

Example, when using synology docker provisioning platform

• docker volume mount setting

• ID, Password setting to docker environment

Reference

[1]. https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/cli/#environment-variables