wadkar / youtube-dl-docker

Download with youtube-dl using command line arguments or a configuration file + Automated updates

Docker Youtube-DL Alpine

Download with youtube-dl using command line arguments or configuration files

Image size	RAM usage	CPU usage
97.7MB	Depends	Depends

Features

• Works with command line arguments to youtube-dl
• Compatible with ARM (build it yourself)
• Small Docker image based on
  • Alpine 3.10
  • Youtube-dl
  • ffmpeg 4.1.4
  • Ca-Certificates
  • Python 2.7.16
• The container updates youtube-dl at launch if -e AUTOUPDATE=yes
• A log file of youtube-dl execution is saved at downloads/log.txt if -e LOG=yes
• Docker healthcheck downloading https://duckduckgo.com with wget every 10 minutes
• The Docker Hub image is updated automatically every 3 days, so simply update your image with docker pull qmcgaw\youtube-dl-alpine
• You can receive a notification on your Android device through Gotify when the youtube-dl has finished

Setup

1. CLICK IF YOU HAVE AN ARM DEVICE

   • If you have a ARM 32 bit v6 architecture

     docker build -t qmcgaw/youtube-dl-alpine \
     --build-arg BASE_IMAGE=arm32v6/alpine \
     https://github.com/qdm12/youtube-dl-docker.git

   • If you have a ARM 32 bit v7 architecture

     docker build -t qmcgaw/youtube-dl-alpine \
     --build-arg BASE_IMAGE=arm32v7/alpine \
     https://github.com/qdm12/youtube-dl-docker.git

   • If you have a ARM 64 bit v8 architecture

     docker build -t qmcgaw/youtube-dl-alpine \
     --build-arg BASE_IMAGE=arm64v8/alpine \
     https://github.com/qdm12/youtube-dl-docker.git

2. Run the container with

   docker run -d -v $(pwd)/yourdir:/downloads qmcgaw/youtube-dl-alpine \
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HagVnWAeGcM \
   -o "/downloads/%(title)s.%(ext)s"

   or use docker-compose.yml with

   docker-compose up -d

3. See the youtube-dl command line options

4. If you encounter permission issues, either chown 1000 yourdir && chmod 700 yourdir or run the container with --user=1001 where 1001 is the user ID owning yourdir

Environment variables

Environment variable	Default	Description
LOG	yes	Writes youtube-dl output to /downloads/log.txt or not
AUTOUPDATE	no	Updates youtube-dl to the latest version at launch
GOTIFYURL		Gotify server URL address (i.e. http://192.168.1.5:8000 or https://a.com/gotify)
GOTIFYTOKEN		Gotify server Token

Downloads directory permission issues

You can either:

• Change the ownership and permissions of ./downloads on your host with:

  chown 1000 -R ./downloads
  chmod 700 ./downloads
  chmod -R 600 ./downloads/*

• Launch the container with a different user using --user=$UID:$GID

TODOs

• Healthcheck to check ydl logs
• Colors in terminal