Install TubeSync Inside Docker Container in Linux

TubeSync is a web-based application to synchronize channels and playlists from YouTube to local directories. It also allows updating the own media server once videos are downloaded.

This tutorial explains how to install TubeSync inside a Docker container in the Linux. Commands have been tested on Ubuntu.

Prepare environment

Make sure you have installed Docker in your system. If you are using Ubuntu, installation instructions can be found in the post.

Install TubeSync

• Host network

Run the following command to create a container for TubeSync that uses host network:

docker run -d --name=tubesync --restart=always --network=host \
    -e HTTP_USER=admin \
    -e HTTP_PASS=pwd123 \
    -v /opt/tubesync/config:/config \
    -v /opt/tubesync/downloads:/downloads \
    ghcr.io/meeb/tubesync

• User-defined bridge network

User-defined bridge network can be used for listening on different port. By default, TubeSync service is listening on port 4848. It can be changed with -p option.

docker network create app-net

docker run -d --name=tubesync --restart=always --network=app-net \
    -p 8080:4848 \
    -e HTTP_USER=admin \
    -e HTTP_PASS=pwd123 \
    -v /opt/tubesync/config:/config \
    -v /opt/tubesync/downloads:/downloads \
    ghcr.io/meeb/tubesync

Testing TubeSync

Open a web browser and go to http://<IP_ADDRESS>:4848, where <IP_ADDRESS> is the IP address of the system. Log in to the web interface with username and password.

Uninstall TubeSync

To completely remove TubeSync, remove its container:

docker rm --force tubesync

Remove TubeSync image:

docker rmi ghcr.io/meeb/tubesync

You can also remove TubeSync data:

sudo rm -rf /opt/tubesync

If a user-defined bridge network was created, you can delete it as follows:

docker network rm app-net