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Is there any yt-dlp frontend that downloads to the users local storage instead of the server's storage? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by kutu-dev@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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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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[–] lannistersstark@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"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.

[–] lilolalu@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Metube can do that, but that's also not what OP asked for since he does NOT want to store the files on the server.

[–] geo38@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

https://github.com/alexta69/metube

tag /u/kutu-dev

[–] lilolalu@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Skaronator@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] lilolalu@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] geo38@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure

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

[–] lilolalu@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

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 :)