alexta69/metube
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Self-hosted video downloader for YouTube and other sites (web UI for yt-dlp)
8 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 2 stories, 6 comments · first 2021-09-10 · latest 2026-04-06
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…That’s Youtube’s fault I assume and not the fault of Tube Archivist. https://www.tubearchivist.com/ https://github.com/alexta69/metube
comment by Fr0styMatt88 · 2026-04-06 · in Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters -
…yt-dlp options, so you can even tell it to use things like SponsorBlock. It's pretty great overall https://github.com/alexta69/metube
comment by Minor49er · 2025-03-10 · in YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients -
Obligatory reference to https://github.com/alexta69/metube which allows you to front yt-dlp with a webpage. Already posted here how I have it as part of my stack: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37113339
comment by WirelessGigabit · 2023-09-11 · in YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes -
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…
comment by WirelessGigabit · 2023-08-13 · in Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio -
My solution? Jellyfin and yt-dlp with an easy to use web ui -- https://github.com/alexta69/metube
comment by jmondi · 2021-10-22 · in YouTube is about to pull its apps from Roku -
Another self-hostable option that runs as a server (and you access with a browser): https://github.com/alexta69/metube
comment by hardwaresofton · 2021-09-10 · in A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl