Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp
Published on: 2025-06-14 21:45:42
MYGA - make youtube great again
A clean and minimal youtube frontend, without all the ads and whistles. Supported by yt-dlp, and optionally your local AI model, to make your youtube experience local, mindful, succint and ad free.
Features
Channel management/Subscriptions
Download videos from YouTube, using yt-dlp behind the scenes
behind the scenes Summarize video content using your local AI model
Ignore videos you don't want to watch
Play videos in background
Offline media playback
No dependencies (except for nano-spawn ), HTML/CSS only, no JS frameworks on client/server side
), HTML/CSS only, no JS frameworks on client/server side Host it in your home network to playback videos on all your devices
Application runs on http://localhost:3000
Installation (node.js)
git clone https://github.com/christian-fei/my-yt.git cd my-yt npm i # install yt-dlp, please see https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp npm start
Installation (docker)
git clone https://github.com/christian-fei/my-yt.
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