Hallsville ISD YouTube Downloader

What's New

Bug & Security Fixes

02/02/2024

Fixed YouTube identifier / translation bug, fixed embedding mode reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

SRT to TXT Utility

10/29/2023

The SRT to TXT Conversion Utility converts timed SubRip Text (SRT) files to simple TXT files. We hear it's pretty useful for transcripts and stuff.

Auto Subtitles

09/10/2023

Auto Subtitles (dynamically generated SRTs) are now reasonably stable (and often quite comical).

Embedded Mode

01/27/2023

Added embedding mode to allow YouTube video to be presented in a distraction-free container. No downloading required. =)

About this application

The Hallsville ISD YouTube Downloader and is a simple web-based user interface which collects, assembles, and feeds data to a server-side Linux daemon (ytdld).

The HISD YouTube Embedding Utility and HISD SRT to TXT Conversion Utility are concomitant pieces to help make using video media just a little bit simpler.

The UI you're using, all server routing routines, utilties, and server daemons are written in Perl, (well, OK, there's some HTML, CSS, and Javascript in there somewhere too) while the bulk of the media conversion is handed-off to server-side functions written in Python. The original Python code base was ~~stolen~~ adapted (heh, heh) from the youtube-dl project, but has been mangled beyond recognition for this application. Hey, none of us claim to be any good at this.

Additional server binary libraries for media conversion and compression include ffmpeg, avconv (libav), and LAME. The HTML5 template used to dress this up a bit is "Simple Style 8" and was shamelessly torn from the pages of html5webtemplates.

To make comments, suggestions, critiques, or reports problems, drop an email to mpage@hisd.com.