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MyTube

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A 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...

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Features

  • 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 Containerslight 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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