Youtube-dl WebUI is a small web interface for youtube-dl/yt-dlp. It allows you to host your own video downloader. After the download you can stream your videos from your web browser (or VLC or others) or save it on your computer directly from the list page.

It supports:

• simultaneous downloads in background
• yt-dlp, youtube-dl (and others)
• logging
• fetch info without download

• A web server (Apache or nginx) on Unix system.
• PHP >= 7 version should be fine.
• Python >= 2.7 for Youtube-dl.
• yt-dlp or Youtube-dl.
• ffmpeg (or avconv) is required for audio extraction, from youtube-dl doc : -x, --extract-audio convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg or avconv and ffprobe or avprobe)

1. Clone this repo in your web folder (ex: /var/www).
2. Copy config/config.php.TEMPLATE to config/config.php and edit it as you like (set binary, change password).
3. Check folders permissions (www-data user must be able to write in the download and log folders).
4. Load index.php to check that everything works.

1. Open config/config.php.
2. Set bin to the path of yt-dlp or youtube-dl instance (es: /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp).

1. Open config/config.php.
2. Set security to true.
3. Find a password, hash it with md5 and replace the value of password element.

Example (chosen password is foo):

echo -n foo | md5sum | sed 's/ .*//'
# Returns the hash acbd18db4cc2f85cedef654fccc4a4d8

If you want to check the download process, enable logging with these instructions:

1. Open config/config.php.
2. Set log to true.
3. Check the logFolder value.

Youtube-dl WebUI uses:

• Bootstrap 5 (with Popper and jQuery 3)
• Bootstrap Icons
• yt-dlp or youtube-dl (or any compatible fork)
• FFmpeg for media manipulation, if present
• Python for JSON formatting, if present

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