@Zergling_man @dcc tbh I was simply thinking of sending the output directly to a shell script that uses $1 in yt-dlp. But thinking about it the site would at least have to be a little bit modular so I could return the file link on the page itself. Otherwise webserver.

Perhaps a webserver is needed in this case.

I guess it just kind of pissed me off that when I searched "serve static page without webserver" every result demanded installing a webserver.