An open-source way to archive YouTube videos to a private server, prevent censorship

Tube Archivist is a self hosted YouTube media server that has been around for a few years, but its development over on GitHub seems to be picking up speed as of late.

According to its developers, the tool’s essential features are allowing the user the ability to subscribe to YouTube channels, download videos using yt-dlp (a fork of the powerful youtube-dl), indexing and make searchable a video collection, playing videos, and keeping track of viewed and unviewed videos.