# EgalitarianMonkey/hometube

HomeTube is a friendly video downloader managing single video URL into organized content structure for automatic home media server experience.

Repository: https://github.com/EgalitarianMonkey/hometube
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/hometube
Language: Python
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: docker, homelab, jellyfin, open-source, plex, selfhosted, sponsorblock, youtube-downloader, yt-dlp
Last push: 2026-08-26T18:55:39+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 84/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 25
- inputs: {"age_days": 352, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 1.0, "n_releases_24m": 41}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1421, forks 87 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:40.577826+00:00)

## What it is
HomeTube is a self-hosted web UI (built on Streamlit and yt-dlp) for downloading single videos and playlists from YouTube and 1800+ other platforms. It organizes downloads into media-server-friendly structures with ad/sponsor blocking, quality control, subtitle embedding, and playlist sync for Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby.

## Use cases
- download youtube videos to my plex library
- self-hosted video downloader with web ui
- sync a youtube playlist to jellyfin automatically
- download videos without ads and sponsor segments
- organize downloaded videos for my homelab media server
- embed subtitles when downloading videos
- download videos from tiktok vimeo reddit to local media server

## When to choose
- you run a Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby server and want YouTube content integrated automatically
- you want a friendly web UI over yt-dlp instead of CLI commands
- you need playlist synchronization with resilient tracking
- you want native ad and sponsor blocking via SponsorBlock
- you want network-accessible downloads from any device

## When to avoid
- you only need a lightweight CLI downloader without a web interface
- you need a full *arr-style automated subscription pipeline rather than on-demand downloads
- you cannot run Docker or a Python 3.11+ environment
- you need to download from platforms requiring DRM circumvention

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, web-framework, developer-tools
- domain: media, self-hosted, web-development
- platform: self-hosted, python, cross-platform
- tags: yt-dlp, media-server, plex, jellyfin, emby, sponsorblock, homelab, video-downloader, streamlit, playlist-sync, automation, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- EgalitarianMonkey/hometube (main) score 84

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:40.577826+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:37:43.534240+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/EgalitarianMonkey/hometube (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:40.577826+00:00, sha d52fab18a527)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.