alexta69/metube
Self-hosted video downloader for YouTube and other sites (web UI for yt-dlp)
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MeTube is a self-hosted web UI for yt-dlp. Paste a link from YouTube or hundreds of other sites, and it downloads to your server: 📖 Guides, recipes and a troubleshooting FAQ live in the wiki — many feature requests are already a recipe there, so check it before filing one. Or with Docker Compose: Then open http://:8081 in your browser. Images are multi-arch (amd64/arm64), and also published on Docker Hub as alexta69/metube. MeTube is configured with environment variables: -e NAME=value on the docker run command line, or the environment: section in Compose. Defaults are the Docker image's; outside Docker, the directories default to the working directory. Templates use yt-dlp's output template syntax. How MeTube applies them is explained in Output templates. yt-dlp options are JSON objects keyed by yt-dlp's API option names, which differ from its command-line flags (converter). They apply at three levels, and for an option set at…
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Inside the original README — Document outline
- MeTube
- Quick start
- Configuration
- Runtime and permissions
- Downloads
- Directories
- File naming
- yt-dlp
- Web server and network
- yt-dlp options
- Guides
- Keeping yt-dlp up to date
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What this repository does
Self-hosted video downloader for YouTube and other sites (web UI for yt-dlp)
Repository facts
- Owner
- alexta69
- Primary language
- Python
- Stars
- 15,143
- Forks
- 1,132
- Open issues + pull requests
- 8
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- master
- Created
- 2019-11-29T17:24:51.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-27T00:18:42.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: self-hosted, youtube, youtube-dl, yt-dlp
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