Tube Archivist
Organize, search, and enjoy your YouTube collection. Subscribe, download, and track viewed content with metadata indexing and a user-friendly interface.
Actively maintained with regular releases.
Commit activity more than 45% of tracked projects; popularity more than 76%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 8.5k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v0.5.12 · 25 Aug 2026 |
| Repo updated | 28 Aug 2026 |
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Built with | Docker |
Is Tube Archivist actively maintained?
Tube Archivist is under active development: 219 commits landed over the last 11 months, averaging roughly 12 commits a month in the most recent quarter.
The most recent tagged release, v0.5.12, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Note that Tube Archivist 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.
Of the 19 projects we track in Media Streaming - Video Streaming, Tube Archivist ranks #5 by health score — in the top quarter of its category.
What Tube Archivist actually does
Tube Archivist is a self-hosted application designed to help you download, organise, and watch your YouTube subscriptions and video collections locally. It indexes metadata to provide searchable access to your downloaded media through a web interface, while also tracking your viewing history.
Best fit: This tool suits users who want to maintain a local archive of online video content independent of the original platform and need an interface to browse it.
Worth knowing: Running a local video archiver requires substantial storage space, and performance depends on how efficiently metadata indexing scales with large collections.
Deployment notes
You will typically need to configure persistent volumes for data storage and connect a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination for the web interface.
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