Is metube still maintained?

Yes, active. Last change yesterday. Latest release 2026.11.06, yesterday.

Widely used. 15k stars, 6 years old. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

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How to install metube on Linux (alexta69/metube) · gitmanual

How to install on Linux

alexta69/metube

Self-hosted video downloader for YouTube and other sites (web UI for yt-dlp)

Python#self-hosted#youtube#youtube-dl#yt-dlp

Difficulty: Easy
Time: about 5 min
Stars: ★ 15,209
Activity: Updated this month
License: AGPL-3.0
Open issues: 4
Got it running: Be the first
Looked up: 7 h ago

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Before you start

Is it free?: YesOpen source (AGPL-3.0).
Still maintained?: Yes, activeLast change yesterday. Latest release 2026.11.06, yesterday.
Can I trust it?: Widely used15k stars, 6 years old. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

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Will it work on my device?

Yes, with Docker on Linux

It's a self-hosted app: the README runs it with Docker, and you open it in your browser.

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Run it with Docker

A self-hosted app: Docker runs it on your computer and you open it in the browser. Needs Docker Desktop (or Docker Engine on Linux). Run docker compose commands inside the cloned repo folder.

Docker

docker run -d -p 8081:8081 -v /path/to/downloads:/downloads ghcr.io/alexta69/metube

From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.

Did you get it running?

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Parts list

1×Python >=3.13runtime
1×Docker tool
1×uv package manager

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Good to know

Dockerfile available (base image: node:22-alpine@sha256:c610fcdfb1d5b4740dd70c284ed3cb16bb857e0f7166196e36a5501df7a3aa32).
Has AGENTS.md — instructions for coding agents. You can open Claude Code (or another agent) in the cloned folder and ask it to do the setup for you.
Nested projects: ui/package.json

Files we read (7)

.github/workflows/main.yml

.github/workflows/readme-size.yml

.github/workflows/update-yt-dlp.yml

CONTRIBUTING.md

Dockerfile

README.md

pyproject.toml

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