# christian-fei/my-yt

A clean and minimal youtube frontend, without all the ads and whistles

Repository: https://github.com/christian-fei/my-yt
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/my-yt
Homepage: https://cri.dev
Language: JavaScript
License: Unlicense
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-11T15:46:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 64/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 35, longevity 40
- inputs: {"age_days": 571, "days_push": 22, "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 1069, forks 78 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:27.602878+00:00)

## What it is
A self-hosted, minimal YouTube frontend built with vanilla JavaScript and yt-dlp that lets you manage channel subscriptions, download videos, and watch them locally without ads. It optionally integrates local or hosted LLMs to summarize video content.

## Use cases
- watch youtube without ads
- self-host a youtube frontend
- download youtube videos locally
- manage youtube channel subscriptions
- summarize youtube videos with a local llm
- watch downloaded videos offline on all devices
- skip sponsors in youtube videos

## When to choose
- you want an ad-free, minimal YouTube experience you control
- you want to download and play videos offline across your home network
- you prefer dependency-light software with simple JSON persistence
- you want LLM video summaries using your own local model

## When to avoid
- you need a full-featured YouTube client with comments and live streams
- you don't want to install yt-dlp and ffmpeg yourself
- you need a mobile app rather than a self-hosted web app

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, http-server, self-hosted, llm-inference, web-scraping
- domain: media, self-hosted, privacy
- platform: self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: youtube-frontend, yt-dlp, sponsorblock, video-downloader, offline-playback, subscriptions, chromecast, picture-in-picture, vanilla-javascript, video, nodejs, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- christian-fei/my-yt (main) score 64

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:27.602878+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 2026-08-30T06:54:25.596492+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/christian-fei/my-yt (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:27.602878+00:00, sha 886600b5f498)
  - homepage: https://cri.dev (fetched 2026-08-29T12:56:33.272356+00:00, sha fdee96ed246d)
  - site_page: https://cri.dev/about (fetched 2026-08-29T12:56:33.275947+00:00, sha 171fb4b98267)
  - site_page: https://cri.dev/posts/2026-06-24-nodejs-syntax-checker-bug-private-fields-shadowing (fetched 2026-08-29T12:56:33.277790+00:00, sha 8b157eeeb215)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.