A not so terrible web ui for yt-dlp.
Created for the only purpose of fetching videos from my server/nas.
Intended to be used with docker and in standalone mode. 😎👍
Developed to be as lightweight as possible (because my server is basically an intel atom sbc).
The bottleneck remains yt-dlp startup time.
Docker images are available on Docker Hub or ghcr.io.
docker pull marcobaobao/yt-dlp-webui
# latest stable
docker pull ghcr.io/marcopeocchi/yt-dlp-web-ui:latest
# latest dev version
docker pull ghcr.io/marcopeocchi/yt-dlp-web-ui:master
Stream or download your content, easily.
05/03/22: Korean translation by kimpig
03/03/22: cut-down image size by switching to Alpine linux based container
01/03/22: Chinese translation by deluxghost
03/02/22: i18n enabled! I need help with the translations :/
27/01/22: Multidownload implemented!
26/01/22: Multiple downloads are being implemented. Maybe by next release they will be there.
Refactoring and JSDoc.
04/01/22: Background jobs now are retrieved!! It's still rudimentary but it leverages on yt-dlp resume feature.
05/05/22: Material UI update.
03/06/22: The most requested feature finally implemented: Format Selection!!
08/06/22: ARM builds.
28/06/22: Reworked resume download feature. Now it's pratically instantaneous. It no longer stops and restarts each process, references to each process are saved in memory.
12/01/23: Switched from TypeScript to Golang on the backend. It was a great effort but it was worth it.
The currently avaible settings are:
- Server address
- Switch theme
- Extract audio
- Switch language
- Optional format selection
- Override the output filename
- Override the output path
- Pass custom yt-dlp arguments safely
- Download queue (limit concurrent downloads)
This feature is disabled by default as this intended to be used to retrieve the best quality automatically.
To enable it just go to the settings page and enable the Enable video/audio formats selection flag!
Future releases will have:
Multi downloaddoneExctract audiodoneFormat selectiondoneDownload archivedoneARM Builddone available through ghcr.io- Playlist support
- It says that it isn't connected/ip in the header is not defined.
- You must set the server ip address in the settings section (gear icon).
- The download doesn't start.
- As before server address is not specified or simply yt-dlp process takes a lot of time to fire up. (Forking yt-dlp isn't fast especially if you have a lower-end/low-power NAS/server/desktop where the server is running)
Docker installation
# recomended for ARM and x86 devices
docker pull marcobaobao/yt-dlp-webui
docker run -d -p 3033:3033 -v <your dir>:/downloads marcobaobao/yt-dlp-webui
Or with docker but building the container manually.
docker build -t yt-dlp-webui .
docker run -d -p 3033:3033 -v <your dir>:/downloads yt-dlp-webui
docker run -d -p 3033:3033 \
-v <your dir>:/downloads \
-v <your dir>:/config \ # optional
yt-dlp-webui
If you opt to add RPC authentication...
docker run -d \
-p 3033:3033 \
-e JWT_SECRET randomsecret
-v /path/to/downloads:/downloads \
-v /path/for/config:/config \ # optional
marcobaobao/yt-dlp-webui \
--auth \
--user your_username \
--pass your_pass
If you wish for limiting the download queue size...
e.g. limiting max 2 concurrent download.
docker run -d \
-p 3033:3033 \
-e JWT_SECRET randomsecret
-v /path/to/downloads:/downloads \
marcobaobao/yt-dlp-webui \
--qs 2
Prebuilt binaries installation
# download the latest release from the releases page
mv yt-dlp-webui_linux-[your_system_arch] /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp-webui
# /home/user/downloads as an example and yt-dlp in $PATH
yt-dlp-web