MyTube
★ 1.1kA self-hosted alternative to Youtube
MIT LicenseOpen Source — No Paywall2 Containers — 2 containers — light hosting footprintDocker · SourceNo external DB
About
MyTube is a self-hosted media downloader and player aimed at users who want to collect, organize, and watch videos from a range of supported platforms. It focuses on yt-dlp-compatible sources, while...
Community Ratings
No ratings yetFeatures
- video downloading
- video upload
- TMDB metadata scraping
- parallel downloads
- batch download
- concurrent download limit
- cloud storage integration
- auto subtitles
- live audio translation
- collections
Details
- Last Updated
- Aug 10, 2026
- Created
- Mar 9, 2025
- Install Methods
- dockersource
- Requirements
- Node.js 22.22+, 23.x, 24.x, 25.x, or 26.xnpm v9+SQLitebetter-sqlite3
- Authentication
- local2fa
- API
- REST
- Backup & Export
- file-backupnative-export
- Runtime / Stack
- NodejsDocker
- Privacy & Independence
- Cloud: Optional
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
Deployment: Docker Compose ✓2 Containers — light hosting footprintRuns as 2 containers
Docker Compose
2 services
no resource limits declared
needs persistent storage (2 volumes)
stacks/docker-compose.yml · @ 9084e42 · scanned Jul 30, 2026
# Default two-container deployment
# Usage: docker compose -f stacks/docker-compose.yml up -d
services:
backend:
image: franklioxygen/mytube:backend-latest
pull_policy: always
container_name: mytube-backend
volumes:
- /share/CACHEDEV2_DATA/Medias/MyTube/uploads:/app/uploads
- /share/CACHEDEV2_DATA/Medias/MyTube/data:/app/data
environment:
- PORT=5551
# Optional: match the backend process uid/gid to the host-side file ownership.
- PUID=${PUID:-1000}
- PGID=${PGID:-1000}
# Set to 0 to disable the startup chown pass for bind-mounted data/uploads.
- MYTUBE_AUTO_FIX_PERMISSIONS=${MYTUBE_AUTO_FIX_PERMISSIONS:-1}
# Optional: declare the admin trust boundary for this deployment.
# Valid values: application | container | host
# ...
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