alexta69/metube
Self-hosted video downloader for YouTube and other sites (web UI for yt-dlp)
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 4 days ago, with 95 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #33 in the weekly ranking the week of Jan 25, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a self-hosted web UI for yt-dlp to download videos from YouTube and dozens of other sites with playlist support.
- Enables easy management of video downloads with configurable concurrency, custom directories, and integration with browser extensions and automation tools.
- Use for setting up a private video downloader server to manage and queue downloads from multiple video platforms.
- Use for automating video downloads via browser extensions, iOS shortcuts, or bookmarklets for seamless content saving.
- Use for running a customizable, containerized video download service behind HTTPS or reverse proxies with fine-grained control over storage and download behavior.
Should you depend on it?
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License
AGPL 3.0
Network copyleft: like the GPL, and also triggered by offering the software over a network.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
- AGPL-style copyleft also applies when the software is offered over a network.
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From the README
Web GUI for youtube-dl (using the yt-dlp fork) with playlist support. Allows you to download videos from YouTube and dozens of other sites.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
1.1K+86
Open issues
11-17
Compared with peers in Self-Hosted
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
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| milind-soni/OpenMausBot | 20.6K | +8.4K | 75 | today |
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| superplanehq/superplane | 9.8K | +1.0K | 75 | 13 days ago |
| alexta69/metube | 15.2K | — | 60 | 4 days ago |
| Category median | 20.6K | +2.5K | 75 | — |
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