Self-hosted projects using Python

Minimal Django-based blogging platform focused on writing. Markdown posts, per-user subdomains, RSS/email subscriptions, Hugo/Zola/EPUB exports, image hosting and API.

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Medium+10

Self-hosted web and REST interface for downloading videos from YouTube and other sites using yt-dlp or youtube-dl; provides Docker images, configurable profiles, and file...

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iTubeGo+4

Django-based application to create date/time polls and general surveys for scheduling meetings, with anonymous voting, private events, and LDAP support.

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Doodle+13

Supysonic is a Python implementation of the Subsonic API for serving, browsing and streaming personal music libraries with transcoding, playlists and scrobbling.

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Plex+7

Web app that uses your Lidarr library and Last.fm to surface similar artists, supports AI-driven prompts, real-time UI, and pushes additions back to Lidarr.

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Last.fm+1

Fetch and synchronize video or audio from YouTube channels on a schedule using yt-dlp. Runs in Docker and can trigger Plex/Jellyfin library scans.

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iTubeGo+2

Silicon Notes is a lightweight personal knowledge base built with Flask. It offers Markdown editing, syntax highlighting, backlinks, full-text search, page history, and e...

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Notion+19

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

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Scribd

Tracim is an open-source collaboration suite offering threaded conversations, file sharing with versioning, collaborative pages, tasks and workspace organization.

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Microsoft SharePoint+19

Scalable email archiving solution with tamper-evident retention, full-text search, legal hold, deduplication and access controls for compliance.

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MailStore Server+1

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

Secrover generates human-readable HTML security audit reports for repositories and domains. Scans dependencies, code, and domains; supports scheduling and remote exports.

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Snyk+15

Open-source platform for creating, running and automatically grading programming exercises in Docker sandboxes; integrates with LMS (Moodle, edX).

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CodeGrade+6

Open-source Python server implementing Ace of Spades 0.75 protocol, with admin tools, map features, scripting, and a JSON status web API.

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.

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OverDrive Libby+12

Tracks weekly box office charts and automatically adds trending theatrical releases to Radarr with filters, scheduling, and a web dashboard.

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Radarr

Open-source web application to monitor MQTT topics, publish messages, visualize real-time message flows, and persist messages with configurable SQLite storage. Docker-rea...

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MQTTX

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

Open-source API and web interface to test TCP port availability for hostnames and IPs. Docker-ready, minimal dependencies, and exposes Prometheus metrics for monitoring.

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MXToolbox Open Port Check+3

Self-hosted app that scans an IMAP mailbox and exposes each configured sender's newsletters as RSS feeds. Deployable via Docker Compose with a web UI.

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Kill the Newsletter!+3

Meshping measures per-target ICMP latencies, builds histograms and heatmaps, runs traceroutes with Path MTU discovery, draws SVG network maps, and exposes Prometheus metr...

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Pingdom+18

A compact, privacy-minded read-only frontend for Reddit with mobile-friendly UI, RSS support, and easy self-hosting using Python and ASGI.

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Reddit+2

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.

Automatically documents Unraid system and Docker configurations and generates Docker Compose, Unraid templates, restore scripts, and change logs for disaster recovery.

Open-source research data management platform for publishing, storing, indexing and sharing datasets with rich metadata, versioning and access controls.

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Zenodo+6

Priviblur is a lightweight, privacy-first alternative frontend and proxy for Tumblr that provides a no-account, JavaScript-free browsing experience with modern design.

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Tumblr

Host group fitness competitions with manual or Strava-imported workouts, customizable goals, leaderboards, streaks and scheduled email reports.

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Strava+5

JARR is a web news aggregator and RSS/Atom reader that clusters articles using TF‑IDF, offering a browser reader and a REST API for feed access.

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Feedly+10

Compact, single-page dashboard that displays KaraKeep bookmarks organized by lists, running entirely in your browser with SQLite WASM.

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Karakeep

Live Blog is an open-source platform for live, real-time coverage of events with embeddable timelines, media and social content, editor workflows and API support.

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ScribbleLive+1