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Obscuravsyoutube-dl-server

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

Obscurayoutube-dl-server
Score75/10047/100
Rank in category#3 of 16 in Web Scraping#31 of 45 in Download Management
GitHub stars29 553319
Stars, last 30 days+469+0
Stable releases, 12 months100
Latest releasev0.2.5 · 17 Oct 2026—
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Main languageRustPython

Which one should you pick?

Obscura scores 75/100 against 47/100 for youtube-dl-server, so it is the safer default.

Obscura ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for youtube-dl-server.

Obscura is growing faster right now (+469 stars in 30 days).

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