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alexta69 / metube

metube

Self-hosted video downloader for YouTube and other sites (web UI for yt-dlp)

Web DevelopmentCreative & MediaSelf-hosted
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What it is

Self-hosted video downloader for YouTube and other sites (web UI for yt-dlp)

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2021-09-10 11:07:48 UTC to 2026-04-06 04:06:20 UTC.

0122021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
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What Hacker News says

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Fr0styMatt88·Apr 6, 2026
EDIT: Sorry I realised you were asking more about categorisation and not downloading. —— The closest thing I can think of is Tube Archivist, which seems made for archiving large YouTube collections, including things like comments on videos. I’ve had mixed luck with it and it’s a bit too heavy for my fairly limited needs. Youtube-dl hasn’t worked for me for the last month or so on it —- oddly enough I have a MeTube instance on the same physical machine (different VM) which is a lighter web UI for yt-dlp and which is still working fine. That’s Youtube’s fault I assume and not the fault of Tube Archivist. https://www.tubearchivist.com/ https://github.com/alexta69/metube
In Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters
Minor49er·Mar 10, 2025
One tool you might like is MeTube. While it can't schedule anything, I have it running it on a headless Beelink computer. So if I want to grab a video or channel, I can open a browser on any device, go to the server, and tell it to fetch whatever I want. The download location is set to a NAS so I can view the media with any device as well. It even supports extended yt-dlp options, so you can even tell it to use things like SponsorBlock. It's pretty great overall https://github.com/alexta69/metube
In YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients
WirelessGigabit·Aug 13, 2023
I selfhost https://github.com/alexta69/metube I have it sitting on a URL and I have an iOS share shortcut to throw any URL at it and it downloads the video. Copy-paste from my ansible setup if you're interested, shouldn't be that hard to convert to docker-compose. - name: Build metube options separately, avoids inline JSON in metube setup ansible.builtin.set_fact: metube_ytdl_options: postprocessors: - key: FFmpegEmbedSubtitle - key: SponsorBlock categories: - sponsor - key: ModifyChapters remove_sponsor_segments: - sponsor subtitleslangs: - en - "-live_chat" verbose: true writeautomaticsub: true writesubtitles: true - name: Create metube container
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community.general.docker_container: container_default_behavior: "no_defaults" name: metube image: alexta69/metube:latest restart_policy: always env: UID: "{{ plex_userid }}" GID: "{{ docker_users_groupid }}" DELETE_FILE_ON_TRASHCAN: "false" DOWNLOAD_DIRS_INDEXABLE: "true" DOWNLOAD_DIR: /downloads TEMP_DIR: /metube-tmp STATE_DIR: /config TZ: "{{ timezone }}" YTDL_OPTIONS: "{{ metube_ytdl_options | to_json }}" mounts: - type: bind source: /stacks/metube/config target: /config read_only: false - type: volume source: metube_tmp_location_volume target: /metube-tmp - type: volume source: plex_metube_volume target: /downloads labels: "traefik.enable": "true" "traefik.http.routers.metube.middlewares": "authelia@docker" "traefik.http.routers.metube.service": "metube" "traefik.http.routers.metube-no-auth.rule": "Host(`metube.home.domain.com`) && (PathPrefix(`/favicon`) || PathPrefix(`/add`))" "traefik.http.routers.metube-no-auth.service": "metube" "traefik.http.services.metube.loadbalancer.server.port": "8081" ports: [] dns_servers: - "{{ docker_network_ipv4_bridge_dns }}" # adguard networks: - name: bridge_ipv4
In Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio

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