yt-dlp-api

Running yt-dlp as a long running flask server.

Notes

Not using python much these days so here are some reminders:

• Create a virtual env like this

python3 -m venv venv

• Activate virtual env

source venv/bin/activate

• Install dependencies with pip

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

• Run the server

flask --app yt_dlp_api --debug run

• Update requirements.txt

pip freeze > requirements.txt

• Install a new dependency

  pip3 install gunicorn

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41457612/how-to-use-requirements-txt-to-install-all-dependencies-in-a-python-project
• https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.2.x/installation/
• https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/venv.html
• https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-and-Python
• https://kindofblue.com/2019/04/simple-json-api-with-flask/
• https://flask-basicauth.readthedocs.io/en/latest/