Setup Guide for Application

Install prerequisites

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y python3-pip
sudo apt install -y python3-venv

Create virtual environment

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Install dependencies

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Install mongodb on ubuntu

sudo apt update sudo apt install -y gnupg curl curl -fsSL https://pgp.mongodb.com/server-7.0.asc | sudo gpg -o /usr/share/keyrings/mongodb-server-7.0.gpg --dearmor sudo apt update sudo apt install -y mongodb-org sudo systemctl start mongod sudo systemctl enable mongod mongod --version

Run the application

dotenv -f  .env run  uvicorn main:app --reload --port 9000

Preference

Setup yt-dlp library

Oauth2 for extracting video metadata and downloading video

• install yt-dlp library

pip3 install yt-dlp==2024.10.22
pip3 install yt-dlp-youtube-oauth2

• Initialize the OAuth2 Authorization(Optional)

yt-dlp --username oauth2 --password "" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_rFbDToh8w

• Add token data as token_data.json in youtube-oauth2 of cache

cd ~/.cache/yt-dlp/youtube-oauth2

• To give yt-dlp access to your account, go to https://www.google.com/device and enter code in description
• Add username and password to config

Cookie for extracting video metadata and downloading videos

• Exporting YouTube cookies

  If you are unfamiliar with the basics of exporting cookies and passing them to yt-dlp, then first see How do I pass cookies to yt-dlp

  YouTube rotates cookies frequently on open YouTube browser tabs as a security measure. To export cookies that will remain working with yt-dlp, you will need to export cookies in such a way that they are never rotated.

  One way to do this is through a private browsing/incognito window:

  1. Open a new private browsing/incognito window and log into YouTube
  2. Open a new tab and close the YouTube tab
  3. Export cookies from the browser then close the private browsing/incognito window so the session is never opened in the browser again.

• Add cookie to yt-dlp config as follows:

  ydl_opts = {
      "format": "bv[height=720][fps=60]/bv[height=720][fps=30]", # specific file format
      "cookiefile": "cookies.txt", # cookie file path
      "http_headers": {  
          "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36"
      },
      "outtmpl": "%(title)s.%(ext)s", # download file name format
  }