Projects sharing features with Metube

Cat-catch is a browser-based media utility designed to detect, capture, and manage web-based video and audio resources. It functions as a comprehensive sniffing and download management system, enabling users to identify hidden or protected media assets directly from active web pages. The tool specializes in reconstructing fragmented streaming protocols, such as DASH and M3U8, into complete files while providing options for real-time stream recording and playback control. The project distinguishes itself through its deep integration with local system environments and external automation tools.

TubeSync is a containerized media management tool and self-hosted archiver designed to automate the downloading and organization of video content from online sources, such as YouTube channels and playlists, into a local library for offline access. It functions as a download manager and metadata generator, utilizing a web interface to manage video subscriptions and synchronization settings. The system features a rule-based content filter that evaluates video metadata against user-defined conditions to determine which items enter the download queue. To handle restricted or age-gated content, it

webui-aria2 is a web-based graphical interface and RPC client designed to control and monitor aria2 download services. It functions as a frontend that interacts with the aria2 JSON-RPC API to manage file transfers and torrents through a browser. The project is delivered as a containerized web application, ensuring a consistent deployment of the download dashboard across different hardware architectures. It utilizes a stateless frontend architecture that renders static files in the browser and fetches the current state of all downloads directly from the remote service. The interface covers re

Sonarr is an automated media management tool that functions as a personal video recorder for television series. It monitors RSS feeds and indexers to track, download, and organize television episodes for personal media libraries. The application integrates with Usenet and BitTorrent clients to automate the acquisition of content. It maintains library integrity by identifying missing episodes and searching for higher-quality versions of existing files, such as 1080p or 4K, based on user-defined criteria. Beyond acquisition, the software handles the organization of media by renaming and sortin

XHS-Downloader is a media downloader and content scraper for Xiaohongshu designed to extract and save images, videos, and metadata from profiles, search results, and shared links. It functions as a background service that can automatically detect and download media when platform URLs are copied to the system clipboard. The project provides a server with an HTTP API endpoint for programmatically triggering media downloads and extracting work details via external scripts. It includes a media asset manager that sorts downloaded content into custom folders using filename patterns based on author

Instaloader is a Python library and command-line utility designed for the automated retrieval, archiving, and analysis of Instagram content. It provides a programmatic interface to fetch media, captions, and metadata from public or private profiles, hashtags, and stories, while maintaining persistent user sessions for authorized access. The tool distinguishes itself through robust archive management and traffic control mechanisms. It supports incremental synchronization, allowing users to resume interrupted downloads and update local collections without redundant requests. To ensure reliable

This project is a command-line utility designed to fetch video, audio, and image content from a wide range of web platforms. It functions by parsing page metadata and utilizing modular, site-specific scripts to extract direct media stream URLs from complex web structures, enabling the local archiving of digital media for offline use. The tool distinguishes itself through its ability to handle authenticated content, allowing users to inject browser-stored session cookies to access restricted or private media. It also supports real-time media streaming by piping remote content directly into ext

This project is a community-curated directory of open-source software designed for deployment in private server environments and home labs. It serves as a comprehensive resource for discovering independent, self-hosted alternatives to mainstream cloud services, enabling users to maintain full data ownership and control over their digital infrastructure. The directory is structured through a hierarchical taxonomy that organizes a vast collection of applications into logical categories, ranging from media management and data analytics to private communication and team productivity tools. It dis

PhotoPrism is a self-hosted digital asset management platform designed to organize, classify, and manage large collections of photos and videos on personal infrastructure. It functions as a private alternative to cloud-based services, ensuring that all media remains under the user's control. The platform utilizes neural-network-based media analysis to automatically detect objects, faces, and locations, providing a comprehensive, AI-powered approach to library organization. The project distinguishes itself through its containerized architecture, which simplifies deployment and lifecycle manage

This project is a command-line video downloader and web media extractor written in Python. It is designed to retrieve video and audio streams from various hosting platforms for local storage or real-time streaming via standard output. The system utilizes a framework of custom extractor classes to handle different websites and allows for the development of new extractors to extend compatibility. It supports accessing restricted, private, or region-locked content through the use of session cookies, user-agent headers, and proxy server routing. Capabilities include media format selection based

Lux is a command line video downloader written in Go designed for extracting and saving video and audio from various websites. It functions as a concurrent media downloader that increases transfer speeds by splitting files into fragments and downloading them using multiple threads. The tool serves as a playlist download manager capable of retrieving entire video collections or specific ranges of items. It also operates as a proxy-enabled media client, supporting HTTP and SOCKS5 proxies and session cookies to access region-locked, private, or age-gated content. Additional capabilities include

PeerTube is a decentralized, open-source video hosting platform that enables users to operate independent, interoperable servers. By utilizing the ActivityPub protocol, it connects these servers into a global, federated network where users can follow channels, discover content, and interact across different instances. The platform is designed to function as a self-hosted video content management system, providing a community-driven alternative to centralized media services. What distinguishes PeerTube is its hybrid approach to content delivery and infrastructure management. It integrates peer

This project is a Telegram API client and media archiving system designed to programmatically retrieve chat histories and export media. It functions as a download manager and message forwarder, allowing users to back up photos, videos, and documents from Telegram chats into structured local archives. The system distinguishes itself through advanced content filtering and forwarding capabilities. It can monitor chats for new messages, apply custom regular expressions to filter media by size or date, and automatically forward content between chats. This includes the ability to export protected c

FFmpeg Batch is a graphical desktop application designed to automate complex audio and video processing tasks. It functions as a workflow manager that allows users to execute repetitive multimedia operations in bulk, providing a centralized interface for managing encoding jobs, stream composition, and metadata across large collections of files. The application distinguishes itself by offering event-driven directory watching, which triggers automated workflows for incoming media without manual intervention. It utilizes configuration-based task templating to ensure consistent encoding parameter

pyload is a Python-based download manager that automates file transfers from web hosters and cloud storage services. It functions as a modular task automator, utilizing a plugin-based architecture to handle site-specific connection protocols and decryption requirements. The system provides multiple ways to interact with the download queue, including a centralized web-based dashboard for remote management and a terminal interface for command-line control. It also acts as a REST API download controller, exposing system functions and status tracking to external applications through an OpenAPI-co

VidBee is a self-hosted media download manager that wraps the yt-dlp engine to download videos and audio from over 1000 websites. It functions as both a desktop client and a Fastify-based web service, managing downloads through a persistent queue with pause, resume, retry, and real-time progress tracking. The application uses cookie-based authentication to access login-gated, age-restricted, or subscriber-only content by importing browser cookies or Netscape-format cookie files. The application distinguishes itself through automated download workflows, including RSS and Atom feed monitoring t

TikTokDownloader is a containerized automation tool designed for the systematic collection and archiving of social media content. It functions as an HTTP API-driven service that enables users to trigger automated media retrieval and metadata extraction tasks through standard web requests, facilitating the storage of videos, images, and platform data for offline analysis. The utility distinguishes itself through session-based web scraping, which utilizes browser cookies to authenticate requests and access restricted platform content that is otherwise unavailable. By maintaining active session

Automatisch is an open-source, self-hosted automation platform designed to orchestrate multi-stage workflows across various third-party web services. It functions as a no-code integration engine that allows users to connect disparate applications, enabling the automated movement of data and the execution of tasks without manual intervention. By running the platform on private infrastructure, users maintain full control over their data and ensure compliance with internal security policies. The platform distinguishes itself through a focus on secure, local credential management and flexible int

Activepieces is an open-source, self-hosted workflow automation platform designed to connect third-party applications through modular triggers and actions. It provides a low-code integration framework that allows users to build, manage, and execute complex business logic sequences within isolated, sandboxed environments. The platform distinguishes itself through its focus on embeddability and enterprise-grade security. It features an embedded automation builder that can be integrated into external applications via iframes, supported by comprehensive identity and access management tools such a

Jellyfin Web is the browser-based frontend for the Jellyfin media server, providing the user interface for browsing, playing, and administering a self-hosted media collection. It functions as a cross-platform media client that works across desktop and mobile browsers, offering a dashboard for server configuration, user management, and plugin administration. The web client serves as the primary interface for organizing and streaming personal media libraries, including movies, TV shows, music, and photos. The web interface supports a range of media management capabilities, including library org

Matchering is an audio mastering tool and Python library designed to match the frequency balance and loudness of a target track to a specific reference track. It functions as a reference-based mastering system that aligns a target signal's spectral envelope, RMS, and peak amplitude with those of a chosen reference file. The project utilizes a multi-stage processing pipeline featuring an FFT spectral matching engine to adjust frequency response. It ensures output quality through the use of a brickwall limiter to prevent signal clipping while preserving the original waveform shape. The tool pr

Res-downloader is a network proxy utility designed to intercept, analyze, and extract multimedia assets from web traffic. It functions as a gateway that captures video, audio, and image files directly from data streams for local storage and offline access. The tool employs man-in-the-middle interception to decrypt and inspect network packets, allowing it to identify media resources through pattern matching and content type filtering. It integrates proxy-based routing to manage outgoing requests, enabling the retrieval of content that may be subject to regional restrictions or network-level ac

Pytube is a Python library and command line interface for downloading videos, playlists, and captions from YouTube. It functions as both a programmatic tool for metadata extraction and a standalone media downloader. The project is designed using only the Python standard library to avoid external package dependencies. It utilizes regular expression-based HTML parsing to extract stream URLs and asset details directly from the platform. The library supports retrieving video metadata and thumbnails, as well as extracting caption tracks. It provides capabilities for downloading entire playlists a

Annie is a command-line video downloader and web video extraction library written in Go. It functions as a concurrent media downloader designed to fetch video files and playlists from websites via URLs. The tool distinguishes itself through a proxy-aware network layer that supports SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies to bypass regional content restrictions. It also incorporates session cookie integration and referrer spoofing to facilitate the download of authenticated or age-gated content. The project provides capabilities for bulk media acquisition, including batch downloading from text files and extr

Parabolic is a graphical frontend for the yt-dlp engine, serving as a web media downloader and extractor. It provides a visual interface for saving high-quality video and audio content from various web platforms into local files. The application functions as a multi-format media exporter, allowing content to be saved into diverse audio and video containers. It includes a media metadata manager to capture and store associated information, such as subtitles and technical metadata, alongside the downloaded files. The system supports batch content acquisition through concurrent download manageme

ytDownloader is a video downloader and media extraction tool that uses the yt-dlp engine to retrieve video and audio files from various social media and video sharing platforms. It functions as a utility for capturing full media files, specific segments or ranges of tracks, and entire video playlists. The project includes a hardware-accelerated video compressor to reduce file sizes while maintaining visual quality. It also features a subtitle downloader capable of retrieving both text captions and embedded subtitle tracks for accessibility and translation. The system handles broad media task

This application is a cross-platform desktop utility designed to manage and accelerate file transfers. Built using the Kotlin programming language, it provides a consistent interface for tracking, pausing, and resuming downloads across different operating systems. The software distinguishes itself by intercepting download requests directly from web browsers through a dedicated messaging protocol. It optimizes transfer speeds by splitting files into multiple segments, which are then downloaded concurrently to maximize available network bandwidth. To ensure data reliability, the manager perform