Pinchflat

Pinchflat is a self-hosted app for downloading YouTube content built using yt-dlp. It's designed to be lightweight, self-contained and easy to use.

References

GitHub repo

Make directory

mkdir -p {{DOCKER_PATH_VAR}}/pinchflat/config/extras/yt-dlp-configs \
&& mkdir -p {{DOCKER_PATH_VAR}}/pinchflat/downloads \
&& cd {{DOCKER_PATH_VAR}}/pinchflat

compose.yml

nano compose.yml

services:
  pinchflat:
    image: ghcr.io/kieraneglin/pinchflat:latest
    container_name: pinchflat
    user: "1000:1000"
    ports:
      - 8945:8945
    volumes:
      - ./config:/config
      - ./downloads:/downloads
    environment:
      - TZ=America/New_York
    depends_on:
      - pot-provider
    restart: unless-stopped
  pot-provider:
    image: brainicism/bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider:latest
    container_name: pot-provider
    init: true
    ports:
      - 4416:4416
    restart: always

base-config.txt

nano ./config/extras/yt-dlp-configs/base-config.txt

--extractor-args "youtubepot-bgutilhttp:base_url=http://bgutil-provider:4416"
--extractor-args "youtube:player_client=mweb,android;player_skip=webpage,configs"

# without pots
#--extractor-args "youtube:player_client=web_safari,mweb,android;player_skip=webpage,configs"
#--extractor-args "youtubetab:skip=webpage"
#--force-ipv4

Start container

docker compose up -d

Open web ui

http://localhost:8945 or http://{{SERVER_IP_VAR}}:8945