fakepseudonym/youtube-dl repository overview

⁠Docker container for youtube-dl and dependencies

youtube-dl⁠ is a really cool tool. However, many operations require dependencies. This is a docker⁠ container with these dependencies built-in. With this, you can use youtube-dl with one (docker) command without having to preinstall the tool or its dependencies.

The container downloads all files in a /Downloads directory inside the container. This means that you have to share the (host) directory where you really want to store the downloaded files and bind mount⁠ the target host directory inside the container as /Downloads.

docker run -v /dir/to/store/files:/Downloads fakepseudonym/youtube-dl 'https://youtube.com/url'

If you forget to bind mount /Downloads, the container will complain.

The github repo is at https://github.com/manishahluwalia/youtube-dl-docker⁠.

The docker hub for the image is at https://hub.docker.com/r/fakepseudonym/youtube-dl/⁠.

⁠Building

This is meant to be build via the build hook in hooks/build. Docker hub uses this automatically, so that's the easiest way to build it. If you'd like to build it yourself, invoke the hook:

./hooks/build