Rapidbay
Rapidbay is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Media Servers category, licensed MIT and written mainly in Python. It ships a Docker image. It has 902 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Media Servers
- Python
- MIT
- Docker
- Active
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 902
- Forks
- 57
- Open issues
- 0
- Commits, last 12 months
- 38
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- No releases
- Created
- Nov 12, 2018
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 38 commits in 12 months.
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 38 |
| Latest release | No GitHub releases |
| Releases, last 12 months | 0 |
| Releases, all time | 0 |
| Open issues | 0 |
| Open pull requests | 9 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Nov 12, 2018 |
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About Rapidbay
Videostreaming service/torrent client that allows searching and playing videos from torrents in the browser or from a Chromecast/AppleTV/Smart TV.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/hauxir/rapidbay.
Topics
- streaming-video
- p2p
- torrent
- torrent-stream
- peerflix
- tv-shows
- stream
- subtitles
- apple-tv
- chromecast
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Is Rapidbay free and open source?
Yes. Rapidbay is open-source software released under the MIT license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Rapidbay with Docker?
Yes. Rapidbay provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Rapidbay?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Rapidbay include Jellyfin, SRS and Invidious.
Is Rapidbay actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Rapidbay was on Oct 26, 2026 with 38 commits in the past twelve months. It had 0 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.