Self-host yoink
2.2All-in-one media downloader and converter powered by yt-dlp
- Stars
- 149
- Port
- 3001 (HTTP server for web UI and API)
- Requires
- Ffmpeg, Yt-dlp
What is yoink?
yoink is a self-hosted media downloader and processor built on yt-dlp, ffmpeg, and gallery-dl. It downloads videos and audio from over a thousand sites including YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, and Reddit, supports playlist downloads as ZIP files, converts between formats with different codecs, compresses videos to target file sizes for Discord, trims and crops videos, creates transcripts and subtitles with optional Whisper or OpenAI API, and auto-detects GIFs from Twitter/X. The frontend is a Svelte 5 progressive web app installable on mobile, and a Discord bot provides slash commands. The backend is a single Go binary serving both API and web UI on port 3001. Self-hosting requires Go, Node.js, yt-dlp, ffmpeg, and Deno, with optional Docker for routing YouTube through Mullvad VPN. No user authentication is built in; settings and queue persist in browser storage.
Should you self-host yoink?
yoink scores 45/100 on selfhost.directory (how scoring works) and ranks #98 of 142 in Media Management. It has 149 GitHub stars.
There was no stable release in the past 12 months, so check the repository's recent activity before you rely on it.
Setup is advanced: plan for several services and some ongoing maintenance. It is MIT-licensed and written mostly in Go.
Its closest alternative on selfhost.directory is Sonarr (81/100, 17 472 stars). It scores higher overall, so compare the two before you pick. See yoink vs Sonarr side by side.
Features
- Discord BotRequires separate bot binary and Discord token configuration
- Format Conversion
- GIF download
- Image gallery download
- Playlist Download
- Progressive Web App
- Quality selection
- Transcription and subtitlesRequires optional Whisper or OpenAI API setup
- Trim and crop
- Video and audio download
- Video compression
- YouTube clips
yoink README
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