Self-hosted projects tagged “Media Library”

Mydia is a Phoenix LiveView-based media manager for tracking, organizing, and automating downloads of movies and TV shows with TMDB/TVDB metadata.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Simkl+2

Self-hosted ecosystem to organize, share, and download your legally owned DRM-free PC games from your own server, with a web UI and Windows client.

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Steam+1

Self-hostable game distribution platform for sharing DRM-free games, with a store UI, rich metadata management, and flexible authentication including SSO.

Self-hosted personal photo gallery focused on speed, seamless zoom, and non-destructive filesystem-based collections with fast indexing and progressive loading.

MITActively maintained

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Google Photos+9

Self-hosted alternative to Goodreads for logging books, tracking reading progress, and visualizing your personal library with multi-user support.

MITActively maintained

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Goodreads+5

Teemii is a self-hosted web app for managing, reading, and indexing manga collections with metadata aggregation and scheduled updates.

MITLikely dormant

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Comixology+7

Omeka is a PHP-based open-source web publishing platform for managing, preserving and presenting metadata-rich digital collections and media-rich online exhibits.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Omeka.net+11

Modern self-hosted SVOD streaming platform to organize and stream MP4 media from local drives and cloud providers with metadata, playlists, GroupWatch, and AI recommendations.

GPL-3.0Slowing down

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Plex+6

Contao is an open-source PHP CMS for building professional, accessible, SEO-friendly and performant websites and web applications; extensible via Symfony bundles and Composer.

LGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Drupal Cloud+19

Providence is the backend of CollectiveAccess: a PHP-based collections management system for cataloging complex metadata and media with search, GraphQL API, import/export and reporting.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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CONTENTdm+19

Digital signage CMS with web and device players to manage content, schedules, and displays; built with TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Redis and S3-compatible storage.

MITSlowing down

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ScreenCloud+9

REDAXO is a lightweight, modular PHP CMS offering block/module-based content editing, a media pool, multilingual support, and an extensible AddOn system.

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WordPress.com+10

A lightweight PHP CMS focused on photo, video and audio galleries with integrated blogging (Zenpage), theme support and extensible plugins.

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SmugMug+18

Automates retrieval of missing books tracked by Readarr by searching Library Genesis and downloading matched files into a configured downloads path.

MPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Scribd

Web app for bulk-managing digital comic libraries: convert CBR/PDF to CBZ, rebuild archives, edit CBZ contents, enhance images, remote-downloads and folder monitoring.

Self-hosted photo & video manager that uses local AI (face recognition, OpenCLIP semantic search, duplicate detection) to organize and explore media.

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Google Photos+14

CouchTube is a Go application that schedules and plays curated YouTube videos as TV-style channels using JSON playlists, with Docker and SQLite support.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Watch2Gether+2

Smart cleanup for Jellyfin that analyzes playback stats, integrates with Sonarr/Radarr and jellyseerr, and automatically tags or deletes old unwatched media with a web UI and PWA.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Recyclarr Cloud

Fork of Calibre-Web providing a Bootstrap-based web UI to browse, read, convert and serve eBooks, comics and PDFs from a Calibre database with Docker support.

GPL-3.0Slowing down

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OverDrive Libby+12

Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog engine offering a lightweight blog platform with plugins, themes, media library, comments, and multi-database support.

BSD-3-ClauseActively maintained

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WordPress.com+10

A Python Flask RESTful API that exposes Gramps family tree databases for web-based genealogy management, media handling, and integrations.

Web-based app to organize, upload, and sync movie, TV and collection posters with Plex; supports TMDB/TVDB/Fanart, PWA, scheduled imports, and orphan detection.

MITActively maintained

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Plex

cmyflix is a lightweight Netflix-like media server in C that scans media folders, builds JSON databases and static HTML pages, and plays HTML5-compatible video files.

AGPL-3.0Slowing down

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Plex+6

Atsumeru is a free self-hosted media server for managing, reading and syncing manga, comics and light novels across native desktop and mobile clients.

MITActively maintained

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Comixology+9

Open-source PHP script to launch a self-hosted video sharing site with playlists, collections, and social features.

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YouTube+10

Modern, customizable lofi web player built with Next.js and TypeScript; mixes YouTube streams with ambient sound effects, persistent local channels, and theme support.

MITSlowing down

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A Soft Murmur+5

Mantium is a self-hosted manga tracker that collects manga metadata (not images) from multiple sources and provides a dashboard and iFrame for embedding.

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AniList+7

A self-hosted web app for couples to upload photos/videos, create galleries, track moments on a timeline, set countdowns, playlists, and receive event notifications.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Tinybeans+14

Modern web app to browse Jellyfin music libraries, track artist releases via MusicBrainz, and send optional Discord webhook notifications.

MITActively maintained

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Stats for Spotify+3

Lightweight Python CLI that scans local .safetensors models, fetches Civitai metadata and previews, generates browsable HTML, and stores JSON backups and indexes.