Media

YouTube videos disappear all the time. Channels get deleted, videos go private, content gets region-locked, and suddenly that tutorial or lecture you bookmarked six months ago is gone forever. Tube Archivist solves this by letting you build your own personal YouTube archive — complete with metadata, thumbnails, subtitles, and a slick search interface. What is Tube Archivist? Tube Archivist is an open-source, self-hosted YouTube media server. Think of it as Plex or Jellyfin, but specifically designed for YouTube content. It downloads videos using yt-dlp under the hood, indexes everything in Elasticsearch for fast full-text search, and presents it all through a clean web interface. ...

If you have a collection of eBooks scattered across devices, Calibre-Web brings them together into a beautiful, self-hosted library you can access from anywhere. Think of it as your personal Kindle store — minus the DRM and data harvesting. Calibre-Web is a web-based frontend for the popular Calibre eBook manager. It gives you a clean, modern interface to browse, read, and download your books from any browser or eReader device. ...