is a web version of gallery-dl possible?

[astrophonic]

hello, sorry if i'm posting in the wrong place. i'm not very familiar with github.

i was wondering, would a web version of gallery-dl be possible to make? by web version, i mean like having a website with gallery-dl built into it and users would just have to paste a link into it to start downloading the stuff that way. or would that be too risky (as in, would such a site get the site owner and the gallery-dl developers into trouble somehow)?

i know nothing about coding or python and all that, so i don't know if such a thing would even be possible. i mean no disrespect by asking this and i'm sorry if the question is annoying, i just wanted to ask because i'm curious and i want to hear what you all had to say on the matter

[rautamiekka]

It's absolutely possible, ppl have done things like this for so many years.

^ The problem is the very wide range of potential security problems.

[astrophonic]

yeah, i figured the issue would be something security related. completely understandable and reasonable to not have a web version because of things like that

[Hrxn]

Possible? Yes.
But I fail to see how something like this would be in the scope of the gallery-dl project itself. Not even remotely close.

[rautamiekka]

Has to be asked somewhere.

[astrophonic]

what do you mean by that? do you mean that it'd be difficult for the developers and too big to take on? if so, then i completely understand. i imagine it'd be a big undertaking and there's also the fact that it would need funding for both website and server hosting

[Hrxn]

@astrophonic The point is not that it would be difficult, on the contrary. This is well-explored territory, so I'd say it would be comparatively easy. The problem is simply, that every minute spent on developing and maintaining a web service and web interface is a minute now missing for improving and maintaining gallery-dl core functionality.

That's the first thing, and second, yes, it's also a cost factor. Hosting a site ain't free. If it's a small site it may not be a big deal. But as soon as you are running a popular, high volume, high traffic site, cost definitely becomes a factor to consider.

[mikf]

There are tons of "Download MP3 from Youtube" sites that use youtube-dl/yt-dlp in their backend. It would equally be possible to host something similar using gallery-dl, I'd think.

I have personally zero interest in hosting/developing such a site, though.