Is my-yt still maintained?

Yes, active. Last change 24 days ago.

Widely used. 1.1k stars, 1 years old. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

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How to set up my-yt (christian-fei/my-yt) · gitmanual

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christian-fei/my-yt

A clean and minimal youtube frontend, without all the ads and whistles

Node.js

Before you start

Is it free?: YesOpen source (Unlicense).
Still maintained?: Yes, activeLast change 24 days ago.
Can I trust it?: Widely used1.1k stars, 1 years old. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

Difficulty: Easy
Time: about 5 min
Stars: ★ 1,128
Activity: Updated this month

GitHub didn't answer, so this is the saved copy from 1 days ago

Will it work on macOS?

Yes, with Docker on macOS

It's a self-hosted app: the README runs it with Docker, and you open it in your browser.
On macOS that means installing Docker Desktop first.

Your system

macOS Windows Linux

Start here

Website ↗cri.devThe project's own site.

Heads-upBuilding it yourself? It also needs 7 settings in .env (1 secret).

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 compose up --build -d

Docker

docker run -p 3000:3000 -v /path/to/your/data/folder/for/persistence:/app/data christianfei/my-yt:latest

From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.

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Parts list

1×Node.js LTS (no version pinned)runtime
1×npm package manager

7× settings in .env

PORT
AI_APIKEYsecret
AI_MODEL
AI_HOST
AI_ENDPOINT
AI_TEMPERATURE
UPDATE_INTERVAL_MINUTES

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Good to know

Dockerfile available (base image: node:25-alpine).

Details

License: Unlicense
Open issues: 8
Branch: main

package.json scripts (4)

startnode --env-file-if-exists=.env index.js
testnpm run lint && node --test --test-concurrency 1 test/*.test.js
test:clientweb-test-runner --config web-test-runner.config.mjs
lintstandard

Files we read (7)

.env.example

.github/workflows/docker.yml

.github/workflows/test.yml

Dockerfile

README.md

docker-compose.yml

package.json

86 files in the repo