yt-dlp Web UI
Web GUI for yt-dlp.
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Commit activity more than 5% of tracked projects; popularity more than 55%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 2.6k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v4.0.0 · 29 Jun 2026 |
| Repo updated | 21 Aug 2026 |
| Licence | MPL-2.0 |
| Built with | Docker, Go, Nodejs |
Is yt-dlp Web UI actively maintained?
Development is ongoing. The repository recorded 7 commits over the same window, and the last three months alone account for 4 of them.
Activity is accelerating: the last quarter carried 100% more commits than the one before it.
The most recent tagged release, v4.0.0, is about 3 months old.
yt-dlp Web UI ranks #20 of 31 tracked media management projects. Several better-maintained options exist in the same category — they are listed below.
What yt-dlp Web UI actually does
yt-dlp Web UI provides a graphical browser interface to interact with the popular command-line media extraction tool. It allows you to manage and trigger downloads through a web browser instead of relying on terminal commands.
Best fit: Self-hosters who prefer a visual dashboard over command-line utilities for downloading video and audio content from supported sites.
Worth knowing: The development pace is slowing down, meaning fixes for upstream media site changes might lag behind the core extraction tool.
Deployment notes
As a containerised application built with Go and Node.js, it typically runs well via Docker with persistent volume mounts required to save downloaded media files to your host storage.
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