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maxunvsytdlp_web_player

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

maxunytdlp_web_player
Score74/10055/100
Rank in category#4 of 16 in Web Scraping#12 of 36 in Video Streaming
GitHub stars18 079809
Stars, last 30 days+518+0
Stable releases, 12 months178
Latest releasev0.1.0 · 25 Oct 2026v1.3.3 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0GPL-2.0
Main languageTypescriptJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

maxun scores 74/100 against 55/100 for ytdlp_web_player, so it is the safer default.

maxun ships more often: 17 stable releases in the past year, against 8 for ytdlp_web_player.

If you want the quickest setup, ytdlp_web_player is easier to run; maxun needs more configuration.

maxun is growing faster right now (+518 stars in 30 days).

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