# MediaCrush/MediaCrush

A website for sharing media

Repository: https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mediacrush
Homepage: https://mediacru.sh
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2015-01-29T00:07:23+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4800, "days_push": 4235, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1332, forks 127 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:24.438973+00:00)

## What it is
MediaCrush is a self-hostable website for uploading and sharing images, audio, and video via fast, shareable links. It is a full web application built with Python, Redis, and ffmpeg for media processing.

## Use cases
- host my own image and video sharing site
- upload media and get a shareable link
- self-hosted alternative to imgur
- serve media files quickly to friends
- convert and optimize uploaded media automatically

## When to choose
- you want a self-hosted media sharing site with an API
- you need fast serving of images, audio, and video with automatic transcoding

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained project - the last release was in 2015 and it appears abandoned
- you need modern Python 3 support or cloud-native deployment

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: file-upload, image-processing, video-processing, audio-processing, http-server, self-hosted
- domain: media, web-development, self-hosted, files
- platform: self-hosted, python
- tags: media-hosting, file-sharing, image-hosting, video-hosting, ffmpeg, redis, linux, web-server, nodejs

## Member repositories
- MediaCrush/MediaCrush (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:24.438973+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 2026-08-30T04:45:09.034392+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:24.438973+00:00, sha 4bd44bdddd60)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.