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YoutubeDL-Material

YoutubeDL-Material is a Material Design web interface for yt-dlp, a command-line video downloader.

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  • Media Applications
  • Tools & Utilities
YoutubeDL-Material is a Material Design web interface for yt-dlp, a command-line video downloader. It provides a browser-based dashboard for starting and managing video downloads instead of the command line, and ships with a Docker image for easy self-hosting. It is aimed at home-server users who want a simple graphical front end for yt-dlp.

Platform availability

Available on 1 of 6 install platforms

  • Unraid
  • TrueNAS (not listed)
  • Umbrel (not listed)
  • ZimaOS (not listed)
  • Proxmox (not listed)
  • Helm (not listed)

Also on Docker Hub and GitHub

Health score

50/100 Fair

Maintained
52last commit 213 days ago
Popular
703,198 GitHub stars
Easy to install
201 install platform, Docker image
Light to run
No data

Based on 3 of 4 factors.

How is this calculated?

A 0-100 score computed nightly from four factors: maintained (40%: recent commits and steady activity), popular (25%: GitHub stars, log scale), easy to install (20%: platforms, install notes, setup guides, Docker image) and light to run (15%: minimum RAM, ARM support). Factors without data are left out and the rest are rescaled.

Availability: platform listings confirmed today

GitHub stars
3,198
Open issues
267
Last commit
2026-03-08
Latest release
v4.3.2
License
MIT
Activity
stale

Checked 9 days ago - source: GitHub (Tzahi12345/YoutubeDL-Material)

Resources & Compatibility

ARM (e.g. Raspberry Pi) is supported.

Checked 9 days ago - source: Docker Hub image tags and published docs

First-install notes

  • Install youtubedr before downloading Install the youtubedr program first, using the method listed for your system. It is the part that actually fetches the YouTube stream, so download attempts will fail if it is missing. source
  • Check ffmpeg for HD downloads Run the ffmpeg command to see if it is installed, and if it fails, install it and add it to your PATH (the folder list your terminal searches for programs). Higher-quality downloads use it to combine video and audio, so without it those downloads can fail. source

Fetched today - each note links to its source

Alternatives (11)

  • 4k Video Downloader - Download high-quality videos from various platforms on Windows, macOS, Ubuntu, and Android, supporting playlists, channels, and subtitles.
  • Ant Video Downloader - Ant Video Downloader allows you to download videos from Youtube, Dailymotion and from most of the video streaming site.
  • MeTube - Web GUI for youtube-dl (using the yt-dlp fork) with playlist support.
  • One For All Downloader - A free online video downloader, offering a simple, safe, ad-free experience.
  • Open Video Downloader (youtube-dl-gui) - A cross-platform GUI for yt-dlp made in Electron and Node.js .
  • Ultimate Media Downloader - A powerful, feature-rich command-line tool for downloading media from 1000+ platforms with beautiful UI, intelligent metadata handling, and…
  • Video DownloadHelper - Extension for Chrome and Firefox downloading both audio and video from many websites.
  • Youtube Video and Audio Downloader - Youtube Video and Audio Downloader is an open-source project, downloading Youtube videos (using Firefox download manager) in all available…
  • Youtube-DLG - Cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl, enabling video downloads from YouTube and over 1000 sites; features multi-language UI and video cutting.
  • youtube-dl - Download videos from YouTube and over 1000 sites using a platform-independent command-line tool, requiring Python.
  • yt-dlp - Command line program that's a youtube-dl fork that downloads videos from YouTube and over 1000 sites.

Checked 9 days ago - source: AlternativeTo

Common questions

Does YoutubeDL-Material support Docker?

The repository states that Docker support is now available.

Can it be used with both youtube-dl and yt-dlp?

The guide repository says it is built on youtube-dl / yt-dlp.

Can it manage and play downloaded media?

A thread explains that it functions as a downloader, media manager, and player for videos or audio from platforms such as YouTube, Twitch, and TikTok.

Does v4.3 include more than a basic downloader interface?

The v4.3 release announcement describes it as a self-hosted GUI for youtube-dl with extra built-in features.

Answers sourced from github.com, github.com, www.reddit.com, www.reddit.com

Community

Collected 8 days ago - public community threads