Hosting & Configuration

LightTube is designed to be hosted using Docker Compose. If you wish to host it without compose, or without Docker at all however, just setting the correct environment variables should work fine.

Docker Compose.yml file

version: '3.7'

services:
  lighttube:
    image: kuylar/lighttube:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    depends_on:
      - database
    ports:
      # Replace 7134 with whichever port you want to connect from
      - 127.0.0.1:7134:80 
    environment:
      # (Required) MongoDB Database Connection String
      - LIGHTTUBE_MONGODB_CONNSTR=mongodb://lighttube:lighttube@database:27017/
      # (Optional) MongoDB Database
      - LIGHTTUBE_MONGODB_DATABASE=lighttube
      
      # (Optional) These will be the texts shown in the home page,
      # chosen randomly from an array
      # Must be a JSON array
      # Default: ["Search something to get started!"]
      - LIGHTTUBE_MOTD=["Search something to get started!"]
      
      # (Optional) This is a dismissable message shown on top of
      # all pages
      # - LIGHTTUBE_ALERT=
      
      # (Optional) Amount of video player data to hold in the cache
      # Default: 50
      - LIGHTTUBE_CACHE_SIZE=50
      
      # (Optional) Default theme for the interface. Either "light", "dark" or "auto"
      # Default: auto
      - LIGHTTUBE_DEFAULT_THEME=auto
      
      # (Optional) Disable the video API used for third party apps
      # Default: false
      - LIGHTTUBE_DISABLE_API=false
      
      # (Optional) Disable the OAuth API used for third party apps
      # Default: false
      - LIGHTTUBE_DISABLE_OAUTH=false
      
      # (Optional) Disable new users from signing up
      # Default: false
      - LIGHTTUBE_DISABLE_REGISTRATION=false
      
      # (Optional) Disable the video proxy
      # Enable this if you don't want videos to be proxied over LightTube
      # This will also disable HLS/DASH playback on browsers
      # Default: false
      - LIGHTTUBE_DISABLE_PROXY=false

      # (Optional) Enable video proxy for 3rd party apps
      # Apps may or may not choose to follow this setting
      # Default: true
      - LIGHTTUBE_ENABLE_THIRD_PARTY_PROXY=true
      
      # (Optional) Default content language (only effects video title/descriptions,
      # "### views"/"### subscribers"/"Published # days ago" text on search results etc.)
      # WARNING: An invalid value may cause LightTube to not work. Make sure you put in a 
      #          valid language ID
      # Default: en
      - LIGHTTUBE_DEFAULT_CONTENT_LANGUAGE=en
      # (Optional) Default content region (only effects the browse screen. search results
      # and recommendations still use the region that the server connects YouTube from)
      # WARNING: An invalid value may cause LightTube to not work. Make sure you put in a 
      #          valid region ID
      # Default: US
      - LIGHTTUBE_DEFAULT_CONTENT_REGION=US
      
      # (Optional) Authentication for age-gated videos
      # Follow the following wiki page to get the required values
      # https://github.com/kuylar/InnerTube/wiki/Authorization
      - LIGHTTUBE_AUTH_TYPE=oauth2     # Required
      - LIGHTTUBE_AUTH_REFRESH_TOKEN=  # Your refresh token. Should start with "1//"

  database:
    image: mongo
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME: lighttube
      MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD: lighttube
    # Recommended: Put the MongoDB files somewhere in your local drive
    # so you can copy them to somewhere else if you ever need to
    volumes:
      - ./mongo:/data/db