avdl-magic

A perhaps not-so-magical audio/video download assistant.

Purpose

Exposes some of the power of youtube-dl in a simple web UI with the intent that it enable a casual end user to easily retrieve the audio from a YouTube video as an .mp3 file.

Heads-up! Copyright infringement is serious business and can come with legal consequences. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see the license. Please use this software responsibly.

Deploying to Heroku

The easiest deployment option is through Heroku using the 'click to deploy' button, above. It will automate the steps below. You can also follow along with these commands if you would prefer to deploy manually. You'll just need to have the Heroku Toolbelt installed.

$ git clone https://github.com/eallrich/avdl-magic.git
$ cd avdl-magic
$ heroku create
# The free 25MB plan will be more than sufficient for our purposes
$ heroku addons:create heroku-redis:hobby-dev
# This 'git push' will take a while due to the included ffmpeg binary blobs
$ git push heroku master
$ heroku open

Acknowledgements

This project builds upon the magic acts already performed by these giants:

• AngularJS
• Bootstrap
• FFmpeg via John Van Sickle's FFmpeg Builds
• Flask
• Redis
• Requests
• RQ
• youtube-dl
• And many more, too!