Stash is a self-hosted platform designed for organizing, cataloging, and managing personal video collections. It functions as a local server that indexes media files from your file system and stores their relationships, tags, and metadata within a relational database.
The platform distinguishes itself through a modular, plugin-driven scraper engine that automatically retrieves and normalizes metadata from community-maintained online sources. This system eliminates manual data entry by populating your library with detailed information about performers, studios, and content tags.
Beyond basic organization, the software provides tools for analyzing library statistics and patterns. Users can navigate their collections through a responsive, browser-based interface that communicates with the server via a strongly typed query layer. The project is distributed as a compiled binary, providing a centralized environment for managing large-scale media libraries.
