mirror of
https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist-frontend.git
synced 2024-11-22 11:50:14 +00:00
77 lines
4.1 KiB
Markdown
77 lines
4.1 KiB
Markdown
|
|
|
|
<center><h1>The Tube Archivist<br>Your self hosted Youtube media server</h1></center>
|
|
|
|
|
|
## Core functionality
|
|
* Subscribe to your favourite Youtube channels
|
|
* Download Videos using **yt-dlp**
|
|
* Index and make videos searchable
|
|
* Play videos
|
|
* Keep track of viewed and unviewed videos
|
|
|
|
## Problem Tube Archivist tries to solve
|
|
Once your Youtube video collection grows, it becomes hard to search and find a specific video. That's where Tube Archivist comes in: By indexing your video collection with metadata from Youtube, you can organize, search and enjoy your archived Youtube videos without hassle offline through a convenient web interface.
|
|
|
|
## Installation
|
|
Take a look at the example `docker-compose.yml` file provided. Tube Archivist depends on three main components split up into seperate docker containers:
|
|
|
|
### Tube Archivist
|
|
The main Python application that displays and serves your video collection, built with Django.
|
|
- Serves the interface on port `8000`
|
|
- Needs a mandatory volume for the video archive at **/youtube**
|
|
- And another recommended volume to save the cache for thumbnails and artwork at **/cache**.
|
|
- The environment variables `ES_URL` and `REDIS_HOST` are needed to tell Tube Archivist where Elasticsearch and Redis respectively are located.
|
|
- The environment variables `HOST_UID` and `HOST_GID` allowes Tube Archivist to `chown` the video files to the main host system user instead of the container user.
|
|
|
|
### Elasticsearch
|
|
Stores video meta data and makes everything searchable. Also keeps track of the download queue.
|
|
- Needs to be accessable over the default port `9200`
|
|
- Needs a volume at **/usr/share/elasticsearch/data** to store data
|
|
|
|
Follow the [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docker.html) for additional installation details.
|
|
|
|
### Redis JSON
|
|
Functions as a cache and temporary link between the application and the filesystem. Used to store and display messages and configuration variables.
|
|
- Needs to be accessable over the default port `6379`
|
|
- Takes an optional volume at **/data** to make your configuration changes permanent.
|
|
|
|
## Getting Started
|
|
1. Go through the **settings** page and look at the available options. Particularly set *Download Format* to you desired video quality before downloading.
|
|
2. Subscribe to some of your favourite Youtube channels on the **channels** page.
|
|
3. On the **downloads** page, click on *Rescan subscriptions* to add videos from the subscribed channels to your Download queue or click on *Add to download queue* to manually add Video IDs or links.
|
|
4. Click on *Download queue* and let Tube Archivist to it's thing.
|
|
5. Enjoy your archived collection!
|
|
|
|
## Potential pitfalls
|
|
**Elastic Search** in Docker requires the kernel setting of the host machine `vm.max_map_count` to be set to least 262144.
|
|
|
|
To temporary set the value run:
|
|
```
|
|
sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
To apply the change permanently depends on your host operating system:
|
|
- For example on Ubuntu Server add `vm.max_map_count = 262144` to the file */etc/sysctl.conf*.
|
|
- On Arch based systems create a file */etc/sysctl.d/max_map_count.conf* with the content `vm.max_map_count = 262144`.
|
|
- On any other platform look up in the documentation on how to pass kernel parameters.
|
|
|
|
|
|
## Roadmap
|
|
This should be considered as a **minimal viable product**, there is an exstensive list of future functions and improvements planned:
|
|
- [ ] Scan your filesystem to manually add videos
|
|
- [ ] Access controll
|
|
- [ ] User roles
|
|
- [ ] Delete videos and channel
|
|
- [ ] Create playlists
|
|
- [ ] Show similar videos on video page
|
|
- [ ] Import existing downloaded archive
|
|
- [ ] Multi language support
|
|
- [ ] Backup and restore
|
|
|
|
|
|
## Known limitations
|
|
- Video files created by Tube Archivist need to be **mp4** video files for best browser compatibility.
|
|
- Every limitation **yt-dlp** will also be present in Tube Archivist. If yt-dlp can't download or extract a video for any reason, Tube Archivist won't be able to either.
|
|
- For now this is meant to be run in a trusted network environment.
|