Remote GUI or web interface

[mbnoimi]

Hi,

Is there any remote gui or web interface for youtube-dl?

I googled and I found https://github.com/jaimeMF/youtube-dl-api-server but I'm not sure what if it's working for youtube-dl.

[phihag]

Duplicate of #469. In short, both have been suggested (and there are quite a lot of closed-source web interfaces), but not implemented.

@Rudloff has written a web interface, (demo here) which looks quite good, but has not asked us to link to it (and being in a svn, he seems to be the only committer over there).

The youtube-dl-api-server project is currently in the alpha stage, but looks promising. I haven't tested it personally (since I use mostly CLI anyways), but @jaimeMF is one of the core developers of youtube-dl.

If there is a usable open-source GUI or web UI, we'd be happy to link it. In particular, the best way to make such a project come true is probably to start it and welcome the contributions of others.

[mbnoimi]

@phihag Thanks a lot for commenting and I wish the best for youtube-dl project but unfortunately I don't want to use any closed source interface (maybe I'm too radical :)). I'm fine with CLI but because I'm using youtube-dl remotely from my VPS I need to keep it run in case I close SSH session for that I thought web interface or remote GUI in similar way of transmission's maybe fix my issue.

EDIT: if you've any solution to my issue, may you please mention it here (I don't want to open a new issue)?

[phihag]

@mbnoimi I mentioned two possible solutions, both open-source. If you're thinking about writing your own GUI or web interface, rest assured that our interface as well as our code is completely open.