TubeSync is a self-hostable downloader for YouTube aimed at channels and playlists. After you set it up, it will automatically scan and download videos from channels you select.
It cannot be used to download single videos. As stated in the docs, to download single videos you need to create a playlist and add them to it, then add the playlist as source itself in TubeSync.
TubeSync is available as container image.
Add the usual dedicated user:
useradd -d /data/daemons/tubesync -m tubesync -g media
Create the needed folders:
mkdir /data/daemons/tubesync/config mkdir /data/Media/YouTube chown tubesync:tubesync /data/daemons/tubesync/config /data/Media/YouTube
Use the following docker-compose:
services:
tubesync:
image: ghcr.io/meeb/tubesync:latest
container_name: tubesync
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- 4848:4848
volumes:
- /data/daemons/tubesync/config:/config
- /data/Media/YouTube:/downloads
environment:
- TZ=Europe/London
- PUID=0
- PGID=0
- DJANGO_URL_PREFIX=/tubesync/
Pull the images:
su - tubesync
podman compose pull
TubeSync doesn't support multi-users and doesnt really support authentication (just a simple BASIC auth, which we can ignore). So it goes behind the Reverse Proxy and SSO authentication…
Follow the The Reverse Proxy concept and the Authentication pages.
This is the working NGINX config file:
location = /tubesync {
return 301 https://$host/tubesync/;
}
location ^~ /tubesync/ {
rewrite ^/tubesync/(.*) /$1 break;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:4848/tubesync/;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection $http_connection;
}
To start it, and set it up on boot, as usual follow my indications Using Containers on Gentoo, so link the user-containers init script:
ln -s /etc/init.d/user-containers /etc/init.d/user-containers.tubesync
and create the following config file:
USER=tubesync DESCRIPTION="Download YouTube channels"
Add the service to the default runlevel and start it now:
rc-update add user-containers.tubesync default rc-service user-containers.tubesync start