About

This app uses Python’s FastAPI to serve a (very) simple web UI that allows the user to submit a YouTube video URL so that the file can be downloaded by the app and served as a stand-alone video.

Motivation

The intention is to provide a means for family members to access YouTube videos even when they are blocked from accessing youtube.com links directly. This was an important restriction during periods of home-schooling & Covid-19 lockdown, when the distractions of watching YouTube were great but teachers needed to ask students to watch specific videos.

Use

This app works best when deployed on a server that has local storage into which the downloads can be saved. By running this on a computer on a home network, you could even share the downloads folder directly.

Project

Please see the project itself for more details: