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I wrote a web front end for downloading Youtube videos, and i'd love some feedback (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hi everyone, I decided there simply were not enough docker apps for downloading Youtube videos, and so I made the situation worse :p

In all seriousness, I couldn't find one that fulfilled all my desires in a YT downloader, so I wrote my own in python using pytubefix and streamlit. It's still fairly rough, but it works, and i'd love to get your feedback. Installation is just a simple docker compose.

services:
    pytube-gui:
        container_name: pytube-gui
        image: artisanbytecrafter/pytube-gui:develop
        ports:
            - 8501:8501
        volumes:
            - /path/to/downloads:/app/downloads # set to where you want downloads to go

Please let me know if you run into any issues, or have any feedback. I do still have a long list :)

Source code: https://codeberg.org/ArtisanByteCrafter/pytube-gui

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Would be nice if you could elaborate what exactly you did different than all the others?

Edit: jeez, guys. It was just a question since they said "none of the others met their needs" so I was interested in that? Did that sound that rude? I am not a native English speaker, so I am not sure now. They are completely OK to ignore my question. But cool, will not ask that again and ignore such posts in the future.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You're ok, it's a fair question. The initial want arose from my son asking me to download YT videos for him to watch offline, and the various youtube-dl, yt-dlp, pytube, etc based solutions all being in various stages of broken, due to how youtube always changes things on their end. I chose an underlying library (pytubefix) that seems to be fast in updating when YT breaks things. Nothing in my app is revolutionary on never seen before, except maybe the ability to choose and combine the exact stream you want, i'm not sure. I took everything I liked in various solutions and put them together to work how i wanted. Then I though maybe someone else might like it too, so i shared it :) I work on it when i want to and just kinda go in the direction i want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Thank you! Also thanks for not getting discouraged to answer by all this comment mess.

[–] cheddar 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

0% of Rust smh

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I am a data scientist, so i know python i guess is my only answer lol. I do love rust as a consumer, but I'm definitely not a full scale programmer.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

While I'm not able to give it a try right now (just woke up, need to get ready for work...) I just wanna thank you for sharing your work and contributing to the community !!

It looks neat and simple :) !!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Works pretty good but basic error handling is missing. I made a issue and a PR for it already. My first try at streamlit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, looking over the PR now and testing it locally, should be good to merge very soon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

About https://codeberg.org/ArtisanByteCrafter/pytube-gui/issues/7 Would it be ok if i try the playlist integration or do you want to do your things first?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I'll have to check this out. By any chance can you give it a Playlist and have it monitor it for changes and auto-download any new entries?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

yt-dlp supports downloading playlists. By using the --archive option it can save all downloaded video ID's into a text file and will only download videos which are not in that file.

I wrote a docker container with a friend that uses that mechanism to auto download new videos every time it is triggered using cron. The configuration is a bit rough though and there is no gui so if this supports that part as well I might switch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I have some batch jobs on my windows machine that do it, so I guess I could go to the trouble of building my own container to run them, was just looking for an easy way out ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Playlist support is on the roadmap. I want to make sure existing functionality is solid first, and then i'd like to include this feature. There's an issue in the tracker for it too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Excellent, we will watch your career with great interest! ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's a great idea. YouTube doesn't have RSS feeds, does it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Not outright displayed but you can find them in the source code.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

you might be interested in pinchflat or tubearchivest which are made for this task

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

I decided there simply were not enough docker apps for downloading Youtube videos, and so I made the situation worse :p

You get my upvote for this alone!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Is it possible to submit a channel and download all the videos (also new videos when they are released).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

TubeArchivist sounds like a better fit for that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

A simple cron job with youtube-dl works also fine.

Edit: But thanks for your suggestion! I'll take a look

Edit 2: TubeArchivist looks nice, but way over my personal needs. Also, its performance requirements are quite high for my small server (4 Cores, 4 GB RAM). I'll keep my small, scripted solution (yt-dl + store to nextcloud folders).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I have playlist support now, but that's all so far.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I use Seal on Android and yt-dlp-gui on Linux because they're native apps using native theming/design languages, but it's always cool to have another option!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

+1 for yt-dlp

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Thank you! The tables are indeed sortable by clicking the column headers. I do this with the underlying streamlit dataframe, I don't believe they support styling the columns, but i'm not 100% sure. Feedback noted on the download button, the border is a remnant of a form submission that gradually got removed so now it's just a form of one button. One of my chief goals was to avoid scrolling as much as possible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Idea for an unrelated browser extension:

Add like 5-6 reccomended videos with similar tags for a platform other than YT to the top of YT Reccomendations.

For people who want to spend less time on YT but dont want to spend more time searching.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I like the [Max Quality] option. Much fancy, very wow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Looks interesting! Might give it a go later to check it out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Wow, thank you kind sir 😊

[–] MichaelMuse 1 points 3 weeks ago

This is awesome—thanks for sharing your project! I totally get the struggle of finding a YouTube downloader that checks all the boxes, so it’s great to see someone building a solution that’s easy to deploy with Docker and has a user-friendly interface.

One feature I’d personally love to see is transcript support. Being able to download not just the video, but also the YouTube transcript (or even auto-generate one for videos without captions) would be super useful for people who want to archive or search video content. Maybe integration with something like Transcriptly or OpenAI’s Whisper could be an interesting addition down the line.

Anyway, thanks again for making this open source! I’ll give it a try. Looking forward to seeing how this project evolves!