vortexsurfer/youtube-dl repository overview

⁠youtube-dl

Docker container for automatically backing up channels on any site supported by youtube-dl.

forked from timlinden

Optional environment variable 'DOWNLOAD_RATE' will set maximum download rate. See youtube-dl manpage for details.

Optional environment variable 'DOWNLOAD_SUBS' - set to 'yes' (default value) to download and embed any subtitles. Set to 'no' to ignore subtitles.

Optional environment variable 'APPRISE_SERVICE' -if set, the container will send notifications to chosen service via Apprise.

Example docker-compose entry:

youtube-dl:
  image: vortexsurfer/youtube-dl
  container_name: youtube-dl
  environment:
    - DOWNLOAD_RATE=500K
    - APPRISE_SERVICE=discord://webhook_id/webhook_token
  volumes:
    - /path/to/download/directory:/downloads
  restart: unless-stopped

Videos will be downloaded to the /downloads directory. Put all the channels you want to automatically download in a file named channels.txt in the /downloads directory. See youtube-dl manpage for details.