Is there any yt-dlp frontend that downloads to the users local storage
instead of the server's storage?
reddit / selfhosted

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kutu-dev · 2023-10-22 14:19

All the downloaders that I find only downloads to the server and I
only want a UI without ads to make easies to use yt-dlp without the
terminal.

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_stromberg · 2023-10-22 14:58

this could be what you're looking for.
https://github.com/ErrorFlynn/ytdlp-interface

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Skaronator · 2023-10-22 15:24

Just start a yt-dlp frontend on that machine that should have the
files in the first place?

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anrikaz · 2023-10-22 15:31

I use Metube, great UI for yt-dlp

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lannistersstark · 2023-10-22 15:38

"Just download an YT downloader application" is not what OP was asking
for.

I too have been looking for a centralized YT-DLP frontend that I can
use to either 1. Store vids on my server 2. Give me (or more
importantly, my wife) a prompt to download them.

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gittubaba · 2023-10-22 16:03

Might be technically possible with WASM nowadays.

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AnApexBread · 2023-10-22 16:21

Jdownloader

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lilolalu · 2023-10-22 16:27

So why put the UI on the server and not in the client??

https://github.com/jely2002/youtube-dl-gui

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lilolalu · 2023-10-22 16:30

Metube can do that

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ozzeruk82 · 2023-10-22 17:11

YoutubeDL-Material is exactly what you're looking for. It does both,
either download to the machine accessing the software in the browser,
or download to a location on the server. Best of both worlds. It's
actually a great bit of software, does more than you expect.

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geo38 · 2023-10-22 17:19

This MeTube in a local docker container seems to do what OP wants:

https://github.com/alexta69/metube

tag /u/kutu-dev

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lilolalu · 2023-10-22 17:21

I have MeTube running, it does not what OP wants (unless he
reconsidered) because it downloads the files to server storage.

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Skaronator · 2023-10-22 18:08

But you can just start the container on his PC, then the Server is his
PC?

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lilolalu · 2023-10-22 18:11

Sure but then you can just start yt-dlp itself, with a GUI, no need to
install a docker environment...

Cross platform
https://github.com/dsymbol/yt-dlp-gui

Windows
https://github.com/kannagi0303/yt-dlp-gui

Mac
https://github.com/section83/MacYTDL

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geo38 · 2023-10-22 18:22

> Sure

So, you're saying the link I posted actually *does* do what the OP
wants?

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lilolalu · 2023-10-22 18:25

Well, he could also install a VM, install Linux and then install
MeTube and then download the files to his PC. So, yes, installing
MeTube in a docker on his Desktop PC, does what OP wants with a
completely unnecessary overhead of complexity because there are yt-dlp
clients for virtually every os. It's a single binary on windows so
there is absolutely zero reasons to install it in a docker container
:)

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pigers1986 · 2023-10-22 18:39

As you wish master ! https://github.com/kannagi0303/yt-dlp-gui

you can use https://github.com/kazukikasama/youtube-dlp-gui-installer
to ease the "installation problems"

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DespiteBadScent · 2023-10-22 19:38

what does wasm have to do with this?

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Cyborgmatt · 2023-10-22 23:34

https://github.com/wukko/cobalt

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[deleted] · 2023-10-23 02:14

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nehalvpatel · 2023-10-23 16:03

WASM is a mechanism that would enable yt-dlp to run completely in the
browser, which would be one way of accomplishing what OP wants.

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kutu-dev · 2023-10-23 17:53

Thanks this is exactly what I was looking for!