Overview
MeTube is a self-hosted web interface for yt-dlp (the youtube-dl fork) that lets you queue and download videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter, and hundreds of other platforms via a browser UI. It supports playlist downloads, format and quality selection, and audio-only extraction. Deployment is a single Docker container; downloads are saved to a mounted volume on the host.
Where it falls short of Netflix
- Downloads files locally; does not stream or manage a media library.
- No scheduling or automatic monitoring of channels/playlists for new content.
- No user authentication by default; must be secured behind a reverse proxy.
- Subject to yt-dlp breakage whenever platforms change their APIs.
We list the gaps honestly so you can decide if the trade-off is worth owning your data.
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