w33ble/youtube-dl repository overview

⁠youtube-dl in Docker

Docker image for yt-dlp⁠, a fork of youtube-dl⁠, built from source. Available on Docker Hub⁠.

⁠Docker setup

Install docker: https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/⁠

Install docker compose: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/⁠

Docker documentation: https://docs.docker.com/⁠

⁠Usage

docker run -i --rm -v "$(pwd)":/data w33ble/youtube-dl [options] <url to download>

If you have issues with file permissions, you may need to add some flags for the user and group, like so:

docker run -i --rm -u $(id -u):$(id -g) -v "$(pwd)":/data w33ble/youtube-dl [options] <url to download>

This will download the video or audio from the provided URL into the current working path. You can pass in any command line arguments that youtube-dl accepts⁠. As an example, you can specify your desired format like so:

docker run -i --rm -u $(id -u):$(id -g) -v "$(pwd)":/data w33ble/youtube-dl -f "bestvideo[ext=mp4][height<=1080]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/bestvideo+bestaudio/best" <url to download>

⁠Building locally

docker build -t youtube-dl .