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PlayerrvsApache Tika

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

PlayerrApache Tika
Score45/10068/100
Rank in category#17 of 23 in Gaming#1 of 2 in Data Extraction
GitHub stars1804 115
Stars, last 30 days+0+16
Stable releases, 12 months100
Latest releasev0.4.8 · 3 Feb 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Main languageCJava

Which one should you pick?

Apache Tika scores 68/100 against 45/100 for Playerr, so it is the safer default.

Playerr ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Apache Tika.

Apache Tika is growing faster right now (+16 stars in 30 days).

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