yt-dlp-api

Introduction

The simple yt-dlp-api server is for extracting YouTube video information with YouTube video URL.

Usage

• Preparing the Linux-like operating system.
• Preparing the Python 3.7+ version in the operating system.
• Install the pipenv with running the pip3 install -U pipenv command.
• Running the pipenv install to create the virtual environment.
• Modifying the yt-dlp-api.service file with the yt-dlp-api.service.example file.
• Copying the yt-dlp-api.service file to the /etc/systemd/system/ folder.
• Running the sudo systemctl daemon-reload to reload the systemd daemon.
• Running the sudo systemctl enable --now yt-dlp-api.service to enable and start the service.
• Enjoy it!

Tips

• Sometimes the yt-dlp are updated frequently and it can run the pipenv run pip install -U yt-dlp command to upgrade this package and run the systemctl restart yt-dlp-api.service command to restart the daemon service.
• Since the yt-dlp 2024.11.04 version has been released, the minimal Python version is 3.9 and the yt-dlp-api will support Python 3.9 at least becasue of compatibility.