dont delete file

[Goten87]

when i click the trashcan in the webui the file still stays on my local server is there a way then when i press that trashcan on compleeted/failed items it will delete the item also in my folder

also a beter way to download to a other pc is needed now it opens the file in a player i want it to popup a where to save window when you click the name of the download

[alexta69]

Regarding the trashcan, I personally prefer it this way, but perhaps there can be an additional icon for removing it from the server. Regarding downloading the file, you can right-click the link and select "Save link as.." to save it.

[Goten87]

Yeah a way to delete from server will be nice Well I sayed about the save function becose I have other people using it in house as well who are not realy technical that’s why I wanted it to be more easy

[xorguy]

I agree that the trashcan should delete the file from the server, or at least an environmental var to control the behavior.

[PikuZheng]

In my environment, I'm more concerned about temporary files (.part/.ytdl) which generated after download failures, or audio/video merge failures. Is there a way to delete them automatically, or delete them while click trashcan?

[alexta69]

In my environment, I'm more concerned about temporary files (.part/.ytdl) which generated after download failures, or audio/video merge failures. Is there a way to delete them automatically, or delete them while click trashcan?

MeTube tries to delete the temp files in case of an error. Maybe there are some cases where it doesn't work, MeTube relies on yt-dlp to tell it which temp files exist.. I hope the check is correct. Perhaps it's worth it to review the code and see if anything is being missed.

[buzzdev]

To download the file instead of opening it in player, you can add this into nginx config:

    location ~* ^/.+\.(?:mp4|mp3)$ {
       ...

       add_header Content-disposition "attachment; filename=$1";
       default_type application/octet-stream;

       set $upstream_app metube;
       set $upstream_port 8081;
       set $upstream_proto http;
       proxy_pass $upstream_proto://$upstream_app:$upstream_port;
    }

[Goten87]

I don’t think the project uses nginx to host website

[alexta69]

Perhaps it will work if you host MeTube behind an NGINX reverse proxy...

[buzzdev]

@Goten87 you don't wont to expose this project directly to internet, you'd better use a reverse proxy. It might be nginx, where the config snippet is from.

I use SWAG for that matter: https://docs.linuxserver.io/general/swag They even have a ready made proxy conf for metube.

The mimetype is anyway handled by a webserver, however i am not that familiar with the metube internals, but perhaps the correct header could also be set on its internal webserver.

[Goten87]

@buzzdev can i use that without a hostname (i want it to be /metube for example) is this posible or do i need a domein name to use it also i will not let it go to the outside of my network sins its for internal use only

[buzzdev]

@Goten87 i have them under docker-compose and they use the internal service names (if that's what you mean). The swag has an example config for metube in subdir or subdomain. https://github.com/linuxserver/reverse-proxy-confs/blob/master/metube.subdomain.conf.sample https://github.com/linuxserver/reverse-proxy-confs/blob/master/metube.subfolder.conf.sample

I use subdomain in my docker-compose.yml:

version: "2.1"
services:
  metube:
    image: ghcr.io/<user>/<image> # i use my own image on ghcr
    container_name: metube
    restart: unless-stopped
    #user: "1000:1000"
    ports:
      - "8081:8081"
    #volumes:
    #  - /your/dir/downloads:/downloads
    environment:
      - OUTPUT_TEMPLATE=%(channel)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s

  swag:
    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/swag
    container_name: swag
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/Bratislava
      - URL=<your_domain>
      - SUBDOMAINS=<your_subdomain>
      - ONLY_SUBDOMAINS=true #optional
      - VALIDATION=http
      - EMAIL=<[email protected]> #optional
      - STAGING=false #optional
      #- CERTPROVIDER= #optional
      #- DNSPLUGIN=cloudflare #optional
      # - DUCKDNSTOKEN=<token> #optional
      #- EXTRA_DOMAINS=<extradomains> #optional
    volumes:
      - /your/dir/swag/config:/config
    ports:
      - 443:443
      - 80:80 # optional
    restart: unless-stopped

[Goten87]

well my modem right now is a little derp sins it cannot see the names of devices so i cannot go to for example to test-server it will not work at all

[LukePWilkins]

Another vote for deleting the actual file from the server. The GUI should represent the files available, if I delete a completed download one would expect the file to also be removed.

[MTrage]

Yes, the fact that the delete function does not do its job is a bit annoying. I will write a script (shell/bash) to automatically find, copy and move as well as set user and group rights. I will make it available this week - if it is user-friendly! °)

[baerni]

Please add the ability to delete files from the server

[TheLinuxGuy]

+1 I expected the delete button to actual delete file from disk. A different button should "hide" past downloads from list if thats the intent.

[schklom]

An alternative is to not define the volume (in docker-compose.yml) to store the downloaded files. Then, I update my container images via a cronjob with

docker compose down
docker volume prune -f
docker compose pull
docker compose up -d

This is not ideal, but it regularly clears metube's /downloads volume and therefore the downloaded files.