Ytdl-webserver: Webserver for downloading YouTube videos

Post by yorwba » Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 4:55 PM UTC

s3m4j wrote: post #8

markovbot wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like they're installing youtube-dl via apt, from the Ubuntu 16.04 repos (which is what the docker image uses as a base), do even rebuilding wouldn't cut it. I wonder if this will even work out of the box, because YouTube changed something that required youtube-dl to fix a month or two ago.

But it isn't actually using that in the app, it's using the https://github.com/przemyslawpluta/node-youtube-dl npm package.

Post by hgasimov » Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 5:28 PM UTC

Post by Jaruzel » Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 5:38 PM UTC

fapjacks wrote: post #14

hgasimov wrote: post #13

Is downloading youtube videos legal?

Come again? Are you implying that we do not have a Fair Use in storing a local recording of a video broadcast for personal use? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Unive... .

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 5:52 PM UTC

jimktrains2 wrote: post #16

I was just thinking the other day of writing a small utility to download a YouTube video and metadata, stuff the metadata in a database, and be able to have a local, searchable copy of videos and channels I'd like to have for a while -- I don't trust they'll be around forever. I was thinking it could be better if the utility would be more useful if it integrated with mythtv, but I might start as a standalone.

Post by frou_dh » Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 5:59 PM UTC