A web service and bookmarklet to download videos with a single click.
- a passing familiarity with the command line
- youtube-dl (plus any of its required dependencies, like ffmpeg)
- golang compiler (if you'd like to build from source)
go build
Binaries are available at https://github.com/tardisx/gropple/releases
gropple -port 6283 -address http://hostname:6283 -path /downloads
With no arguments, it will listen on port 6283 and use an address of 'http://localhost:6283'.
The address must be specified so that the bookmarklet can refer to the correct host if it is not running on your local machine. You may also need to specify a different address if you are running it behind a proxy server or similar.
Bring up http://localhost:6283
(or your chosen address) in your browser. You
should see a link to the bookmarklet at the top of the screen, and the list of
downloads (currently empty).
Drag the bookmarklet to your favourites bar, or otherwise bookmark it as you see fit.
Whenever you are on a page with a video you would like to download, simply click the bookmarklet.
A popup window will appear, the download will start on the your gropple server and the status will be shown in the window.
You may close this window at any time without stopping the download, the status of all downloads is available on the index page.
The default downloader is youtube-dl. It is possible to use a different downloader
via the -dl-cmd
command line option.
While gropple
will use your PATH
to find the executable, you may also want
to specify a full path instead.o
So, for instance, to use youtube-dlc
instead of youtube-dl
and specify the
full path:
gropple -dl-cmd /home/username/bin/youtube-dlc
Note that this is only the path to the executable. If you need to change the command arguments, see below.
The default arguments passed to youtube-dl
are:
--newline
(needed to allow gropple to properly parse the output)--write-info-json
(optional, but provides information on the download in the corresponding .json file)-f
andbestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best
(choose the type of videoyoutube-dl
will download)
These are customisable on the command line for gropple
. For example, to duplicate these default options, you would
do:
gropple -dl-args '--newline' -dl-args '--write-info-json' -dl-args '-f' -dl-args 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best
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