yt-diff

yt-dlp bundled with a node-js server and somewhat usable UI made in react and mui. It's used to download videos from youtube and some other site almost all of the ones supported by yt-dlp.

See all supported sites

Requirements

• Node.js
• Docker Compose or Docker to use postgres (Can be installed on system directly)
• Linux (Not tested on Windows)
• yt-dlp (Installed with pip install yt-dlp)
• yt-diff (this project)
• ffmpeg (optional)
• Watchtower (optional)
• phantomjs (optional)

How to use?

Populate the .env file with the following variables

Building the docker image

Amd64:

docker build --build-arg VITE_BASE_PATH="/ytdiff" --no-cache -t purevert/yt-diff:amd64 .

Alpine-amd64:

docker build --build-arg VITE_BASE_PATH="/ytdiff" --build-arg ARCH=amd64 --file Dockerfile.alpine  --no-cache -t purevert/yt-diff:amd64-alpine .

Using pre-built image

This is built using github actions replace it in docker-compose.yml and just run

docker-compose --env-file .env.local up --detach --force-recreate --remove-orphans --renew-anon-volumes

Github container registry (ghcr.io)ghcr.io/sagnikdas53/yt-diff:master

Usage

TODO

Commands that run the whole thing

List

yt-dlp --playlist-start {start_num} --playlist-end {stop_num} --flat-playlist \
    --print "%(title)s\t%(id)s\t%(webpage_url)s\t%(filesize)s\t%(filesize_approx)s" {body_url}

Download

yt-dlp --embed-metadata --write-subs --write-auto-subs --write-description \
    --write-comments --write-thumbnail --paths {save_path} {body_url}

Example

Executing this command will return a list of some of the videos in the playlist

yt-dlp --playlist-start 1 --playlist-end 2 --flat-playlist \
 --print "%(title)s\t%(id)s\t%(webpage_url)s\t%(filesize)s\t%(filesize_approx)s" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4Oo6H2hGqj0YkYoOLFmrbhsVWfAjCLZw

Output:

Yes... this Voice Line is actually in the game\tK1VVWJrpDgs\thttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1VVWJrpDgs\tNA\tNA
Yes... this Voice Line is actually in the game\tK1VVWJrpDgs\thttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1VVWJrpDgs\tNA\tNA

Database Queries

SELECT *
FROM video_indexers
INNER JOIN video_lists ON video_indexers.video_url = video_lists.video_url
WHERE video_indexers.playlist_url = 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4Oo6H2hGqj3qXOV_XHT_FVR-e0gvkhtJ'
ORDER BY index_in_playlist DESC;

SELECT DISTINCT video_lists.video_url,video_indexers.index_in_playlist,video_lists.title,video_indexers."createdAt",video_indexers."updatedAt"
FROM video_indexers
INNER JOIN video_lists ON video_indexers.video_url = video_lists.video_url
WHERE video_indexers.playlist_url = 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyIwTNqpN_9ZKZoQ8XzADGtbuVtbsTCjH'
ORDER BY video_indexers."updatedAt" DESC
LIMIT 50

Experimental

Trying out this logging format

yt-dlp --progress-template "download:[download] %(progress._percent_str)s of %(progress._total_bytes_str)s at %(progress._speed_str)s ETA %(progress._eta_str)s" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1VVWJrpDgs