shimisnow / yt-dlp-docker

A Docker container for the repository yt-dlp

yt-dlp Docker

This project is a Docker container for the repository yt-dlp

This is only a Docker image that uses the yt-dlp project without any modification.

Key features

• It has ffmpeg and yt-dlp installed and configured
• Can read multiple urls from a text file and download all files
• Can split the video in chapters
• Can store the thumbnail, chapters info and subtitles in mp4/mkv files

How to use it

First, build the image yt-dlp-docker:latest:

docker compose build image

Second, put the youtube urls into the file ./source/source.txt (one per line)

Example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApMrILhTulI

Third, run the container for the desired operation:

docker compose up download
docker compose up download-mp3
docker compose up split-chapters

The files will be downloaded to the /export directory.