wernight/docker-youtube-dl

Dockerized youtube-dl based on Alpine Linux.

Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

• latest

What is youtube-dl?

youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites.

How to use this image

$ docker run --rm --user $UID:$GID -v $PWD:/downloads wernight/youtube-dl \
      <video_url>

• --user $UID:$GID is to run as your current user, and not root.
• -v $PWD:/downloads is to store downloaded files in the current working directory.
• <video_url> is the ID of a YouTube video or other arguments to pass to youtube-dl.

Note: The entrypoint is set to youtube-dl, so do not put youtube-dl again as argument.

Features of this image

• Small: Built based on official Alpine Linux.
• Simple: One command and you should be ready to go. All documented here.
• Secure: Runs as any user.

User Feedback

Having more issues? Report a bug on GitHub.

docker-youtube-dl's Issues

Update Container

Any way you can kick off a rebuild for this container? The one on the Docker Hub uses an old version of youtube-dl.

If I clone and build the container myself it works fine, but it'd be nice to just have a working one on Docker Hub.

Thanks,
Zak

current latest docker image is no more able to download files

youtube-dl changed.
Please update youtube-dl to latest version and update docker image.

adapting things for Docker desktop (Win10)

Hi,
do you think it is possible to run your container from Win10 with Docker desktop ?
the given command line in your instructions fails because it is not compatible with Win10 interpreter
https://hub.docker.com/r/wernight/youtube-dl/

youtube-dl outputs warning about .cache folder not being writable

I just checked the log-output and found this log-line in every youtube-dl call:

WARNING: Writing cache to u'/.cache/youtube-dl/youtube-sigfuncs/js_vflpGF_3J_40.43.json' failed: Traceback (most recent call last):

Can we ignore this or should we mount some writable location to /.cache ?

README.md talks about PhantomJS?

Read the second heading in README.md

Unable to extract Initial JS player signature function name

# docker run --rm --user 33:33 -v /tmp:/downloads wernight/youtube-dl -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHYDFClkqHw
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHYDFClkqHw']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out None, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.05.11
[debug] Python version 2.7.15 (CPython) - Linux-4.19.0-0.bpo.5-amd64-x86_64-with
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.4, ffprobe 3.4.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] dHYDFClkqHw: Downloading webpage
[youtube] dHYDFClkqHw: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] {18} signature length 109, html5 player vflxACNZ2
[youtube] dHYDFClkqHw: Downloading player https://www.youtube.com/yts/jsbin/player_ias-vflxACNZ2/en_US/base.js
ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1342, in _decrypt_signature
    video_id, player_url, s
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1250, in _extract_signature_function
    res = self._parse_sig_js(code)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1314, in _parse_sig_js
    jscode, 'Initial JS player signature function name', group='sig')
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1004, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract Initial JS player signature function name; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
 (caused by RegexNotFoundError(u'Unable to extract Initial JS player signature function name; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure
to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.',)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1342, in _decrypt_signature
    video_id, player_url, s
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1250, in _extract_signature_function
    res = self._parse_sig_js(code)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1314, in _parse_sig_js
    jscode, 'Initial JS player signature function name', group='sig')
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1004, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract Initial JS player signature function name; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 796, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 529, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1989, in _real_extract
    encrypted_sig, video_id, player_url, age_gate)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1352, in _decrypt_signature
    'Signature extraction failed: ' + tb, cause=e)
ExtractorError: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1342, in _decrypt_signature
    video_id, player_url, s
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1250, in _extract_signature_function
    res = self._parse_sig_js(code)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1314, in _parse_sig_js
    jscode, 'Initial JS player signature function name', group='sig')
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1004, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract Initial JS player signature function name; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
 (caused by RegexNotFoundError(u'Unable to extract Initial JS player signature function name; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.',)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

Youtube-DLC Fork

Hello,

Just wondering if you had any interest in forking this to support a Youtube-DLC branch. DLC is a community youtube-dl fork with more ongoing maintenance and active development. https://github.com/blackjack4494/youtube-dlc