Important
Personal Fork Disclaimer: This fork is maintained for personal use and to continue development while the upstream project remains the canonical source.
Note
I was previously running this as a fork of another fork, and finally decided to attach it directly to the original canonical app!
Features Included in this Fork
Sources
- Single Video Sources: Add one-off YouTube video URLs directly as sources, not just channels and playlists.
- Selective Playlist Downloads: Delay playlist downloads, review indexed items, and choose exactly what to fetch from the Selection flow.
- Stronger Source Controls: Manage sources faster with clearer automatic vs delayed indicators plus inline and dropdown start, pause, and stop actions.
- Faster Source Actions: New inline notification links and direct source delete controls make routine source management quicker.
- Per-Source Folder Routing: Send each source into its own folder with a picker for existing folders and template-aware output routing.
Interface
- Material 3 AMOLED Theme: A darker, more opinionated visual layer with Material-inspired spacing, surfaces, controls, and hierarchy.
- Native Tailwind v4 Pipeline: Shared theme tokens and the native Tailwind v4 asset pipeline make the refreshed UI more consistent and maintainable.
- Cleaner Form UX: Better toggles, custom selects, clearer source/profile editing states, and improved source creation guidance.
- Collapsible Sidebar: Desktop navigation can collapse for a denser, more focused layout.
- Broader Mobile Polish: Source, job, and history views have improved responsive layouts for smaller screens.
Downloads
- Cookie Management UI: Upload, paste, and inspect the shared
cookies.txtfile directly from the app. - Download Speed Visibility: See live download speed in the jobs dashboard and media tables.
- Smarter Retry Behavior: Retry flows clear stale errors properly and keep task state more accurate.
- Nightly yt-dlp Builds: Track newer yt-dlp builds for faster compatibility with upstream extractor changes.
Operations
- Extra Diagnostics: More structured logging around source creation, indexing, enqueueing, and skipped downloads.
- Ongoing Fork Tweaks: Small workflow, UI, and reliability improvements that are useful in self-hosted daily use.