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Expand Up @@ -5,18 +5,9 @@ FROM --platform=${TARGETPLATFORM:-linux/amd64} alpine:3.21.3 as ship
COPY --from=watchdog /fwatchdog /usr/bin/fwatchdog
RUN chmod +x /usr/bin/fwatchdog

RUN apk add --no-cache curl bash ca-certificates

# youtube-dl appears to be broken
# https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/31530
# Switching to yt-dlp
# RUN pip install --upgrade yt-dlp

RUN curl -SLs https://get.arkade.dev | sh && \
arkade get yt-dlp && \
mv $HOME/.arkade/bin/yt-dlp /usr/local/bin/ && \
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp && \
rm -rf /tmp/* && rm -rf /usr/local/bin/arkade
# Download yt-dlp, an updated alternative to youtube-dl, from Alpine repository
# since it is packaged as static binary compatible with Alpine.
RUN apk add --no-cache ca-certificates yt-dlp
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I read that yt-dlp required Node or Bun etc now going forward to solve captchas.

Thoughts?

Did you want to also update the alpine version.

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From what I can see in the Alpine repository, the yt-dlp package depends on the yt-dlp-ejs package, which pulls in a JavaScript runtime. There is also a related issue discussing this. At the moment, it seems a JS runtime is not actually downloaded, but I think that in the future the Alpine maintainer will enable it through the yt-dlp-ejs package.

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Did you want to also update the alpine version.

I didnit update it, as you may prefer to do it manually together with the other functions in a single commit.


# Add non root user
RUN mkdir -p /home/app
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