Media Roller

A mobile friendly tool for downloading videos from social media. The backend is a Golang server that will take a URL (YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, etc), download the video file, and return a URL to directly download the video. The video will be transcoded to produce a single mp4 file.

This is built on yt-dlp. yt-dlp will auto update every 12 hours to make sure it's running the latest nightly build.

Note: This was written to run on a home network and should not be exposed to public traffic. There's no auth.

Running

Make sure you have yt-dlp and FFmpeg installed then pull the repo and run:

./run.sh

Or for docker locally:

 ./docker-build.sh
 ./docker-run.sh

With Docker, published to both dockerhub and github.

• ghcr: docker pull ghcr.io/rroller/media-roller:master
• dockerhub: docker pull ronnieroller/media-roller

See:

• https://github.com/rroller/media-roller/pkgs/container/media-roller
• https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/ronnieroller/media-roller

The files are saved to the /download directory which you can mount as needed.

Docker Environemnt Variables

• MR_DOWNLOAD_DIR where videos are saved. Defaults to /download
• MR_PROXY will pass the value to yt-dlp witht he --proxy argument. Defaults to empty

API

To download a video directly, use the API endpoint:

/api/download?url=SOME_URL

Create a bookmarklet, allowing one click downloads (From a PC):

javascript:(location.href="http://127.0.0.1:3000/fetch?url="+encodeURIComponent(location.href));

Integrating with mobile

After you have your server up, install this shortcut. Update the endpoint to your server address by editing the shortcut before running it.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d3b05b78eb434496ab28dd91e1c79615

Unraid

media-roller is available in Unraid and can be found on the "Apps" tab by searching its name.