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

61 points
*

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.

permalink
report
reply
-20 points
*

Why? Why ask for this from the creator?

If someone can create new software and offer it for free, they should not also be expected to also create a comprehensive analysis of what other people did and list of differences.

Just take it or leave it, it’s that simple. No need to act as if you’re trying to waste some door-to-door salesman’s time.

Edit: I expected some downvotes but not that many.

To my defense, the question in this thread is “you could elaborate what exactly you did different than all the others”. Look, I’m not a native English speaker either but I feel we could agree that is still pretty far away from simply being curious about design choices or “what led you to create this” sort of exploratory question.

I might have overreacted, though, so sorry for that.

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

0% of Rust smh

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

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.

permalink
report
parent
reply
-17 points

Why is this always the top comment when somebody makes something with the same functionality as another service?

It’s just good there are some different options, maybe the UI is better, better tech stack, more responsive dev, who knows.

permalink
report
parent
reply
-15 points

Some people see “free stuff”, and assume that it’s now open season on wasting OP’s time.

It’s a good way to kill any enthusiasm. Imagine your kid made a spaghetti portrait as a gift for you and instead of just accepting it you asked, “but what exactly did you do differently from all kids on the block?”

permalink
report
parent
reply
30 points

In this particular case, OP said none of the others met their needs. I would like to know what new functionality this one has to know if it’s something I’m interested in or not. It’s not a critique - it’s helping me understand if I want to check it out or not.

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

I gave a fuller answer here, but i also wanted to be able to run a solution in docker that could output straight to my NAS via volumes.

permalink
report
parent
reply
7 points

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.

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

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

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

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

permalink
report
reply
3 points
*

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.

permalink
report
reply
13 points

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?

permalink
report
reply
2 points
*

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

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

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

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

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

permalink
report
parent
reply
6 points

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.

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

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 ;)

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

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.

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

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

permalink
report
parent
reply
34 points

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 :) !!!

permalink
report
reply
1 point

Thank you!

permalink
report
parent
reply

Selfhosted

!selfhosted@lemmy.world

Create post

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don’t control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: we’re here to support and learn from one another. Insults won’t be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam posting.

  3. Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it’s not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

  4. Don’t duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).

  6. No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

Community stats

  • 3.7K

    Monthly active users

  • 2K

    Posts

  • 23K

    Comments