YoutubeDL-Server
YoutubeDL-Server is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Media Management category, licensed MIT and written mainly in Python. It ships a Docker image. It has 319 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 22, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Media Management
- Python
- MIT
- Docker
- Active
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 319
- Forks
- 35
- Open issues
- 4
- Commits, last 12 months
- 78
- Last commit
- Oct 22, 2026
- Latest release
- No releases
- Created
- Mar 17, 2020
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 22, 2026, 78 commits in 12 months.
| Last commit | Oct 22, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 78 |
| Latest release | No GitHub releases |
| Releases, last 12 months | 0 |
| Releases, all time | 0 |
| Open issues | 4 |
| Open pull requests | 2 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Mar 17, 2020 |
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About YoutubeDL-Server
Web and REST interface to Youtube-DL for downloading videos onto a server.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/nbr23/youtube-dl-server.
Topics
- youtube-dl
- docker
- self-hosted
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Is YoutubeDL-Server free and open source?
Yes. YoutubeDL-Server 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 YoutubeDL-Server with Docker?
Yes. YoutubeDL-Server 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 YoutubeDL-Server?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to YoutubeDL-Server include Sonarr, MeTube and Radarr.
Is YoutubeDL-Server actively maintained?
The most recent commit to YoutubeDL-Server was on Oct 22, 2026 with 78 commits in the past twelve months. It had 4 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.