Ganymede
Twitch VOD and live stream archiving platform. Includes a rendered chat for each archive.
Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.
Commit activity more than 75% of tracked projects; popularity more than 35%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 1k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v4.21.0 · 22 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 27 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Built with | Docker |
Is Ganymede actively maintained?
Over the last 11 months the project absorbed 764 commits, of which 139 arrived in the most recent quarter — roughly 46 commits a month.
Activity is cooling: commits are down 54% against the previous quarter. One slow quarter is normal; two in a row is a signal.
The most recent tagged release, v4.21.0, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Note that Ganymede depends on a third-party service to work fully. It is self-hosted, but not self-contained: if that external service changes its terms or disappears, your instance is affected.
Ganymede ranks #9 of 19 in Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP), placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What Ganymede actually does
Ganymede is a self-hosted platform designed to capture and archive Twitch live streams and video-on-demand content. It saves the video data alongside a rendered version of the chat log associated with each archived session.
Best fit: It suits content archivists and regular viewers who want to preserve Twitch broadcasts locally for long-term storage and offline playback.
Worth knowing: You need to ensure adequate disk storage space for video files, and the software is strictly limited to Twitch rather than multi-platform streaming services.
Deployment notes
Deployment relies on Docker, so you will typically need to configure persistent volumes for media storage and put a reverse proxy in front for secure access.
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