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gropple
A web service and bookmarklet to download videos with a single click.
Pre-requisites
- a passing familiarity with the command line
- youtube-dl (plus any of its required dependencies, like ffmpeg)
- golang compiler
Build
go build
Binaries
Binaries are available at https://github.com/tardisx/gropple/releases
Running
gropple -port 6283 -address http://hostname:6283 -path /downloads
With no arguments, it will listen on port 6283 and use an address of 'http://localhost:6283'.
The address must be specified so that the bookmarklet can refer to the correct host when it is not running on your local machine. You may also need to specify a different address if you are running it behind a proxy server or similar.
Using
Bring up http://localhost:6283 (or your chosen address) in your browser. You should see a link to the bookmarklet at the top of the screen, and the list of downloads (currently empty).
Drag the bookmarklet to your favourites bar, or otherwise bookmark it as you see fit.
Whenever you are on a page with a video you would like to download, simply click the bookmarklet.
A popup window will appear, the download will start on the your gropple server and the status will be shown in the window.
You may close this window at any time without stopping the download, the status of all downloads is available on the index page.
TODO
Many things. Please raise an issue after checking the currently open issues.