yt-dlp-bot

Simple and reliable YouTube Download Telegram Bot.

Version: 0.4. Release details.

😂 Features

• Download videos from any yt-dlp supported website
• Upload downloaded videos to the Telegram chat
• Trigger video download by sending link to an API
• Track download tasks via API

⚙ Quick Setup

1. Create Telegram bot using BotFather and get your token
2. Get your Telegram API Keys (api_id and api_hash)
3. Find your Telegram User ID
4. Copy bot/config-example.yml to bot/config.yml
5. Write token, api_id, api_hash to bot/config.yml by changing respective placeholders
6. Write your Telegram user id to the allowed_users -> id by replacing dummy value and change or remove forward_group_id value (if you want to forward the video to some group when upload is enabled)
7. Check the default environment variables in envs/.env_common and change if needed
8. Video storage path (STORAGE_PATH environment variable) is located in the envs/.env_worker file. By default, it's /filestorage path inside the container. What you want is to map the real path to this inside the docker-compose.yml file for worker service, e.g. if you're on Windows, next strings mean container path /filestorage is mapped to real D:/Videos so your videos will be saved to your Videos folder.

     worker:
       ...
       volumes:
         - "D:/Videos:/filestorage"
   

9. If you want your downloaded video to be uploaded back to the Telegram, set upload_video_file config variable for your user in the config.yml to True

🏃 Run

# Build base image
docker compose build base-image

# Build and run all services in detached mode
docker compose up --build -d -t 0 && docker compose logs --tail 100 -f

# Stop all services
docker compose stop -t 0

Your telegram bot should send you a startup message: ✨ <YOUR_BOT_NAME> started, paste video URL to start download and that's it. After pasting video URL(s) bot will send you appropriate message whether they were downloaded or something went wrong.

💻 Advanced setup

1. If you want to change yt-dlp download options, go to the worker/ytdl_opts directory, copy content from default.py to user.py and modify as you wish by checking available options .
2. Default max simultaneous video downloads by worker service is 2. Change the MAX_SIMULTANEOUS_DOWNLOADS variable in envs/.env_worker to desired value but keep in mind yt-dlp may glitch when the value is high.
3. Worker service (particularly the FFmpeg process) makes a JPEG thumbnail from the video. It's needed when you choose to upload the video to the Telegram chat. By default, it tries to make it on the 10th second of the video, but if the video is shorter, it will make it on video length / 2 time point because the FFmpeg process will error out. Change the THUMBNAIL_FRAME_SECOND variable if needed in the envs/.env_worker file.

🛑 Failed download

If your URL can't be downloaded for some reason, you will see a message with error details

Access

• API: default port is 1984 and no auth. Port can be changed in docker-compose.yml
• RabbitMQ: default creds are located in envs/.env_common
• PostgreSQL: default creds are located in envs/.env_common. Same creds are stored for Alembic in worker/alembic.ini on 53rd line.

API

By default, API service will run on your localhost and 1984 port. API endpoint documentations lives at http://127.0.0.1:1984/docs.

Endpoint	Method	Description
/status	GET	Get API healthcheck status, usually response is {"status": "OK"}
/v1/yt-dlp	GET	Get latest and currently installed yt-dlp version
/v1/tasks/?include_meta=False&status=DONE	GET	Get all tasks with filtering options like to include large file metadata and by task status: PENDING, PROCESSING, FAILED and DONE.
/v1/tasks/f828714a-5c50-45de-87c0-3b51b7e04039?include_meta=True	GET	Get info about task by ID
/v1/tasks/latest?include_meta=True	GET	Get info about latest task
/v1/tasks/f828714a-5c50-45de-87c0-3b51b7e04039	DELETE	Delete task by ID
/v1/tasks/latest?include_meta=True	GET	Get info about the latest task
/v1/tasks	POST	Create a download task by sending json payload {"url": "<URL>"}
/v1/tasks/stats	GET	Get overall tasks stats

API examples

1. GET http://localhost:1984/v1/tasks/?include_meta=False&status=DONE&limit=2&offset=0

   Response

   [
       {
           "id": "7ab91ef7-461c-4ef6-a35b-d3704fe28e6c",
           "url": "https://youtu.be/jMetnwUZBJQ",
           "status": "DONE",
           "source": "BOT",
           "added_at": "2022-02-14T02:29:55.981622",
           "created": "2022-02-14T02:29:57.211622",
           "updated": "2022-02-14T02:29:59.595551",
           "message_id": 621,
           "file": {
               "id": "4b1c63ed-3e32-43e6-a0b7-c7fc8713b268",
               "created": "2022-02-14T02:29:59.597839",
               "updated": "2022-02-14T02:29:59.597845",
               "name": "Ana Flora Vs. Dj Brizi - Conversa Fiada",
               "ext": "mp4"
           }
       },
       {
           "id": "952bfb7f-1ab3-4db9-8114-eb9995d0cf8d",
           "url": "https://youtu.be/AWy1qiTF64M",
           "status": "DONE",
           "source": "API",
           "added_at": "2022-02-14T00:36:21.398624",
           "created": "2022-02-14T00:36:21.410999",
           "updated": "2022-02-14T00:36:23.535844",
           "message_id": null,
           "file": {
               "id": "ad1fef96-ce1c-4c5e-a426-58e2d5d3e907",
               "created": "2022-02-14T00:36:23.537706",
               "updated": "2022-02-14T00:36:23.537715",
               "name": "Rufford Ford | part 47",
               "ext": "mp4"
           }
       }
   ]
   

2. POST http://localhost:1984/v1/tasks

   Request

   {
       "url": "https://youtu.be/AWy1qiTF64M"
   }
   

   Response

   {
       "id": "5ac05808-b29c-40d6-b250-07e3e769d8a6",
       "url": "https://youtu.be/AWy1qiTF64M",
       "source": "API",
       "added_at": "2022-02-14T00:35:25.419962+00:00"
   }
   

3. GET http://localhost:1984/v1/tasks/stats

   Response

   {
       "total": 39,
       "unique_urls": 5,
       "pending": 0,
       "processing": 0,
       "failed": 26,
       "done": 13
   }