ytdlpl

A "playlist" maker for youtube-dl.

Problem

youtube-dl is versatile enough that it can download whole playlists off YouTube. It is also versatile enough to work on websites other than YouTube that may not offer a playlist functionality.

(Or, maybe, you're just holding out on making a Google account. Or you are downloading from various sources. Whatever.)

ytdlpl (does the name make sense now?) lets you queue up URLs for download, kind of like building up a playlist as you go.

This was conceived March 2020 while I'm staying at home, helping #flattenthecurve.

Installation and Usage

Needs you to have Docker and Docker Compose installed. All the commands in this section are ran from this directory. sudo probably necessary.

Install:

docker-compose up

This will run a daemon-type process that will download video files from supported URLs in the background. By default the files will be downloaded to ~/Videos/ytdlpl.

To enqueue a URL for downloading, simply

./ytdlplnq https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Note that there are a lot of options to customize youtube-dl's behavior but such pass-through behavior is not yet implemented here.

Configuration

Note: Needs you to be comfortable with editing and running docker-compose.

I want to

• change the location where my videos are downloaded: Edit the volumes mounted by the ytdlpl service, map your desired directory location to /root/Videos/ytdlpl of the service's image.

License

MIT