MyTube

A self-hostable video archive web app

Quick summary

MyTube is a self-hostable archive for online video metadata and local media files. It supports importing from multiple services, managing imports from an admin UI, and accessing content from a website and GraphQL API.

Key capabilities:

• Multi-source imports (YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Floatplane)
• URL-, playlist-, channel-, and filesystem-based import workflows
• Local media download support with yt-dlp
• Admin tools at /admin for imports, queue visibility, and missing media checks
• Public + authenticated GraphQL schemas
• Search with SQL by default, optional Meilisearch indexing
• Light/dark mode and localization support

Quick start

composer install --no-dev
pnpm i
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate
php artisan migrate
pnpm run build

Then point your web server to public/.

Documentation

• Installation
• Configuration
• Operations
• Administration
• Importing data
• Downloading videos
• yt-dlp archive workflow
• GraphQL API

Common commands

# List configured source adapters
php artisan import:sources

# Import videos from one or more URLs
php artisan import:url <url> [<url>...]

# Import a playlist
php artisan import:playlist-url <playlist-url>

# Import local files by scanning a directory
php artisan import:filesystem /path/to/video-library

# Download videos that are missing local files
php artisan download:missing --queue