TubeArchivist: A Self-Hosted YouTube Media Server With ElasticSearch + Plex / Jellyfin

TubeArchivist is a self-hosted YouTube media server built around yt-dlp, ElasticSearch, Redis, and Nginx. Subscribe to channels, archive videos before they vanish, search a full-text-indexed library, watch in the web UI or stream through Plex / Jellyfin plugins. GPL-3.0, 7,800+ stars, 4+ years of development.

Repo: https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist
Site: https://www.tubearchivist.com
Docs: https://docs.tubearchivist.com
License: GPL-3.0

Timestamps:
0:00 — Archive YouTube before it disappears
0:25 — Meet TubeArchivist
0:55 — What it actually does
1:30 — The stack — yt-dlp, ElasticSearch, Redis
2:00 — Plex, Jellyfin, browser extension integrations
2:30 — One honest note on YouTube's ToS
3:00 — Stand it up tonight

What TubeArchivist gives you:
- Subscribe to YouTube channels and playlists
- Auto-download new videos via yt-dlp
- Full-text search across your library (ElasticSearch)
- Built-in web player with viewed / unviewed tracking
- Plex plugin (tubearchivist-plex)
- Jellyfin plugin (tubearchivist-jf-plugin)
- Browser extension (Firefox + Chrome) for one-click archiving
- LDAP authentication for households / teams
- Forward auth proxy support
- Configurable quality, format, subtitle handling
- Snapshot + restore via ElasticSearch
- Docker Compose / Unraid / Synology / Podman deploy paths
- 4 GB RAM recommended for mid-sized libraries

Built by tubearchivist — GPL-3.0 — 7,833 stars, 385 forks, 4.5 years of development.

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