Media Roller
A mobile friendly tool for downloading videos from social media. The backend is a Golang server that will take a URL (YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, etc), download the video file, and return a URL to directly download the video. The video will be transcoced as needed to produce a single mp4 file.
This is built on youtube-dl which has a list of supported sites.
Note: This was written to run on a home network and wasn't originally written to be exposed to public traffic. Currently there's no auth. This might change and feel free to send a pull request, but right now, keep this on your internal network and do not expose it.
Running
Make sure you have youtube-dl and FFmpeg installed then pull the repo and run:
./run.shWith Docker: ronnieroller/media-roller:latest.
See https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/ronnieroller/media-roller
The files are saved to the /download directory which you can mount as needed.
API
To download a video directly, use the API endpoint:
/api/download?url=SOME_URL
Create a bookmarklet, allowing one click downloads (From a PC):
javascript:(location.href="http://127.0.0.1:3000/fetch?url="+encodeURIComponent(location.href));
Integrating with mobile
After you you have you server up, install this shortcut. Update the endpoint to your server address by editing the shortcut before running it.
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d3b05b78eb434496ab28dd91e1c79615
Unraid
media-roller is available in Unraid and can be found on the "Apps" tab by searching its name.
Open Issues, missing features
- Conversions are slow, need to be sped up
- Needs to support auth
- Needs a better way to track downloaded media and manage it
- Add ablity to prefer certain quality or format