MeTube
Download videos from YouTube
Alex Shnitman
Download videos from YouTube (and dozens of other sites) directly to your Umbrel.
This release includes important updates and improvements.
Key highlights:
- Upgraded yt-dlp to version 2026.2.4 for better video download support
- Added BgUtils POT Provider support
- Optimized Docker image by removing unnecessary dependencies after installation
Full release notes can be found at https://github.com/alexta69/metube/releases
This release includes important updates and improvements.
Key highlights:
- Upgraded yt-dlp for better video download support
Full release notes can be found at https://github.com/alexta69/metube/releases
This release includes important updates and improvements.
Key highlights:
- Upgraded yt-dlp for better video download support
- Added CHOWN_DOWNLOAD_DIR option for improved directory ownership handling
- Simplified directory ownership changes in entrypoint
- Updated ownership settings documentation
Full release notes can be found at https://github.com/alexta69/metube/releases
This release includes important updates and improvements.
Key highlights:
- Removed unnecessary DOWNLOAD_MODE config for simplified concurrent downloads
- Removed playlist strict mode (now always enabled)
- Fixed bulk delete error with improved error handling
- Upgraded dependencies for better performance and security
Full release notes can be found at https://github.com/alexta69/metube/releases
This release includes important updates and improvements.
Key highlights:
- Added file command to the Docker image to fix compatibility issues
Full release notes can be found at https://github.com/alexta69/metube/releases
This release includes important updates and improvements.
Key highlights:
- Modernized Angular frontend for improved user experience
- Added chapter splitting functionality with UI controls
- Fixed logging level configuration to respect DEBUG settings
- Improved download progress display and result tooltips
Full release notes can be found at https://github.com/alexta69/metube/releases
This release includes important updates and improvements.
Key highlights:
- Upgraded yt-dlp from 2025.12.8 to the latest version
- Switched to a maintained fork of watchtower for better reliability
Full release notes can be found at https://github.com/alexta69/metube/releases
This release includes important updates and improvements.
Key highlights:
- Upgraded yt-dlp from 2025.11.12 to 2025.12.8
- Upgraded to Angular 20
- Fixed GitHub login issue
Full release notes can be found at https://github.com/alexta69/metube/releases
This release includes important fixes.
Key highlight:
- Fixed an issue with download entry serialization.
Full release notes can be found at https://github.com/alexta69/metube/releases
This release includes improvements to download capabilities and performance enhancements.
Key highlights:
- Improved compatibility with YouTube video downloads
- Enhanced performance when restoring queues on restart
- Pending downloads are now restored automatically on start
- Better handling of data serialization
Full release notes can be found at https://github.com/alexta69/metube/releases
This release includes improvements to the dependency management system and container capabilities.
Key highlights:
- Improved compatibility with future YouTube video downloads
- Enhanced version number format for better compatibility
- Fixed the page footer to stay at the bottom
Full release notes can be found at https://github.com/alexta69/metube/releases
This release contains bug fixes and improvements.
Highlights:
- Added automatic reloading of YTDLP options file when changes are detected
- Introduced support for browser fingerprint impersonation
- Improved version number format for better compatibility
- Fixed the page footer to stay at the bottom
Full release notes can be found at https://github.com/alexta69/metube/releases
This release contains bug fixes and improvements.
Highlights:
- Upgraded yt-dlp for better video downloading compatibility
Full release notes can be found at https://github.com/alexta69/metube/releases
This release contains bug fixes and improvements.
Highlights:
- Upgraded underlying video downloader for better compatibility
- Added download totals display at the top of the interface
- Added version information display
- Fixed download folder selection dropdown
- Upgraded to Angular 19 for improved performance
- UI cleanup and reorganization for better user experience
- Added support for custom directory exclusion patterns
- Fixed download issues with impersonation features
This release contains bug fixes and improvements.
Highlights:
- Improvements to the underlying audio/video downloader
This release contains bug fixes and improvements.
Highlights:
- Redirects to root path when basePath is empty
- Added reference to yt-dlp command-line options script
- Included links to yt-dlp option cookbooks
This release contains bug fixes and improvements.
Highlights:
- Improvements to the underlying audio/video downloader
- Fixed queue restoration after container restart
- Updated UI and backend
- Enable multi-file downloads
Highlights:
- Improvements to the underlying audio/video downloader.
- Add a download selected button for non-autostarted downloads
- Improve stability of app shutdown.
- Add "worst" format
This update includes improvements to the underlying audio/video downloader.
You can now permanently delete downloaded audio/video files from your Umbrel using the Trashcan in the MeTube app.
Full release notes can be found at https://github.com/alexta69/metube/releases
Added support for downloading videos in 2160p quality
Full release notes can be found at https://github.com/alexta69/metube/releases
Key highlights in this release:
- Improved responsive design
- Fixed: Provide default value for title when absent
Full release notes can be found at https://github.com/alexta69/metube/releases
Key highlights in this release:
- Added the ability to specify a robots.txt file, with a default disallowing the download links
- Added notes regarding the Raycast extension
Full release notes can be found at https://github.com/alexta69/metube/releases
Key highlights in this release:
- Added Playlist Strict mode and Item limits
- Fixed: URLs with a video in a playlist were incorrectly downloaded as a whole playlist as single item instead of split by each video
- Fixed: Regression causing playlist output format to be applied to every video
This update includes improvements to the underlying audio/video downloader.
The changelog for this release can be found at https://github.com/alexta69/metube/compare/b1422e5...dc894ef
This update includes general bug fixes and performance improvements.
A full comparison of changes is available at https://github.com/alexta69/metube/compare/99ffa60...b1422e5
This update includes the ability to retry all failed downloads, the ability to cancel downloads before they start, and displays file sizes for all downloads.
