Elengrab
★ 44GNU Affero General Public License v3.0Open Source — No PaywallSingle Container — single container — minimal hosting footprintDocker · BinaryNo external DB1+ active committer (12mo)
About
Elengrab is a self-hosted media downloader and viewer aimed at people who want a fast, browser-based way to grab and play video or audio from many online platforms. It focuses on a lightweight web...
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Features
- Downloading video and audio from 1,000+ websites
- Configurable format and quality settings
- Cookie-based authentication support
- Task queue and concurrent processing
- Built-in media search
- Media sorting by newest/popular/oldest
- In-browser playback
- Thumbnails and video previews
- Watch progress tracking and resume playback
- PWA support
Details
- Last Updated
- Oct 14, 2026
- Created
- Nov 8, 2025
- Install Methods
- dockerbinary
- Requirements
- yt-dlpffmpegDeno (for cookie support)SQLite
- Minimum Requirements
- RAM: ~512 MB RAMCPU: 1–2 cores
- Authentication
- local
- Backup & Export
- database-dumpfile-backup
- Runtime / Stack
- GoDocker
- Privacy & Independence
- No Cloud Required
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
Deployment: Docker Compose ✓Single Container — minimal hosting footprintsingle container
Run Elengrab with Docker Compose
Compose file from the Elengrab project repository.
1 service
≈4.0 GB RAM requested (from Docker memory limits)
needs persistent storage (5 volumes)
docker-compose.yml · @ dd4e3e9 · scanned Sep 23, 2026
version: '3.5'
services:
server:
image: neosy/elengrab
ports:
- 8080:8080
environment:
TZ: "Europe/Moscow"
ELENGRAB_DOWNLOAD_WORKERS: "3"
ELENGRAB_MODE: "public"
volumes:
- db:/app_n/sqlite/data
- db_backups:/app_n/sqlite/backups
- downloads:/app_n/downloads
- cookies:/app_n/cookies
- media:/app_n/media
deploy:
mode: replicated
replicas: 1
resources:
limits:
cpus: "6.0"
memory: "4G"
volumes:
db:
db_backups:
downloads:
cookies:
media:
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