Tube Archivist

Organize, search, and enjoy your YouTube collection. Subscribe, download, and track viewed content with metadata indexing and a user-friendly interface.

Active Last commit · 217 commits in the past 12 months

Needs 3rd-party service

At a glance

GitHub stars
8.6k
Last commit
2026-10-25
Latest release
v0.6.0
2026-10-25
Commits (12 mo)
217
Releases (12 mo)
–
License
GPL-3.0
Language / platform
Docker

Maintenance health: Active

Last commit within the past 90 days. Last commit · 217 commits in the past 12 months.

How we label health: Active = last commit within 90 days, Maintained = within 12 months, Slowing = 12–24 months, Stale = over 24 months, Archived = read-only repository, Unknown = no data. Activity data from awesome-selfhosted-data (refreshed daily from GitHub).

Run Tube Archivist yourself

  • RAM: ~4 GB server (2 vCPU)
  • Docker: yes
  • Storage: plan disk for your data (media/files grow fast); attach a volume or use object storage.
  • video transcoding is CPU-heavy; 2+ vCPU or a GPU/iGPU helps

Estimated monthly server cost

ProviderPlan size~ USD / month
Vultr4 GB$20Deploy →
DigitalOcean4 GB$24Deploy →
Akamai (Linode)4 GB$24Deploy →

Rough estimate from the app's stack and category, not a benchmark. Several light apps can share one server. Some hosting links may be affiliate links. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you; it never affects which apps we list.

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