TubeArchivist: Your Personal YouTube Archive Manager

TubeArchivist is a powerful self-hosted solution for archiving and managing YouTube content. It provides a sleek interface to download, organize, and search through your YouTube video collection with advanced metadata management.

Key Features

Smart Organization: Automatically organizes videos by channel, playlist, and custom collections.

Metadata Management: Stores and indexes video metadata for advanced searching.

Download Automation: Schedule downloads and manage your video archive efficiently.

Full-Text Search: Powerful search capabilities through video titles, descriptions, and comments.

Docker Compose Installation

Deploy TubeArchivist using this Docker Compose configuration:

services:
  tubearchivist:
    container_name: tubearchivist
    restart: unless-stopped
    image: bbilly1/tubearchivist
    ports:
      - 8000:8000
    volumes:
      - ./youtube:/youtube
      - ./cache:/cache
    environment:
      - ES_URL=http://archivist-es:9200
      - REDIS_HOST=archivist-redis
      - HOST_UID=1000
      - HOST_GID=1000
      - TA_HOST=your-domain-or-ip:8000
      - TA_USERNAME=tubearchivist
      - TA_PASSWORD=your-password
      - ELASTIC_PASSWORD=your-elastic-password
      - TZ=America/New_York
    depends_on:
      - archivist-es
      - archivist-redis

  archivist-redis:
    image: redis/redis-stack-server
    container_name: archivist-redis
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./redis:/data
    depends_on:
      - archivist-es

  archivist-es:
    image: bbilly1/tubearchivist-es
    container_name: archivist-es
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - ELASTIC_PASSWORD=your-elastic-password
      - ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m
      - xpack.security.enabled=true
      - discovery.type=single-node
    volumes:
      - ./es:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data

Directory Structure

Before starting, create these directories:

• youtube: Stores downloaded videos and media
• cache: For application cache data
• redis: Redis database storage
• es: Elasticsearch data storage

Getting Started

1. Save the configuration as docker-compose.yml
2. Update the environment variables with your desired passwords and domain
3. Create required directories
4. Run docker compose up -d
5. Access the interface at http://<your-server-ip>:8000

After installation, log in with your configured credentials and start adding YouTube channels or videos to archive.