QuickTube.app

quicktube.app

Convert YouTube videos to MP3. No BS.

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💎 Ruby 3.4 · 🛤 Rails 8 · ⚡️ Stimulus · 🅺 Kamal 2

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Deploy

Note

For Kamal v1 with Traefik, see legacy v0.1.7.1.

First, you'll need to obtain a cookies.txt file to avoid bot checks coming from YouTube. Here's a guide on how to do this: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-yt-dlp

Short version:

1. Install the Get cookies.txt LOCALLY extension (Chrome, Firefox)

2. Open an incognito window

3. Create a throw-away Google account, go to https://youtube.com/robots.txt

4. Choose "Current Site" from the Get cookies.txt LOCALLY extension menu

5. With the cookies.txt that was loaded by extension run this command:

   scp -P <SSH_PORT> config/cookies.txt <SSH_USER>@<HOST>:/rails/config/cookies.txt

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1. Clone the repository

2. Install kamal (see Kamal docs):

   gem install kamal

3. Create a config/deploy.yml file from sample:

   cp config/deploy.yml.sample config/deploy.yml

4. Set values in config/deploy.yml to match your setup

5. Create a .env file from sample:

   cp .env.sample .env

6. Set values in .env to match your setup

7. Prepare server(s) - everything from copying an SSH key to setting up UFW, users and permissions:

   ./bin/prepare_server
   

8. Finally, deploy:

   kamal deploy
   

Custom environments

It's possible to prepare & deploy a custom environment too.

Make sure you have a config/deploy.[environment].yml and .kamal/secrets.[environment] files.

For example, for a staging environment:

./bin/prepare_server staging

kamal accessory boot redis -d staging
kamal deploy -d staging.