Self-hosted projects using Python

Kodi is an open source media center for organizing and playing local and networked video, music, and photos with a TV-friendly interface and add-on ecosystem.

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Microsoft Windows Media Player+7

Open-source IdP delivering SSO, OAuth2/OIDC, SAML2, LDAP, RADIUS, MFA, WebAuthn, conditional access and application-proxy capabilities for self-hosted deployments.

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Okta+19

Wagtail is an open-source CMS built on Django and Python, offering an editor-friendly admin UI, flexible content modeling with StreamField, and optional headless APIs.

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Adobe Experience Manager+19

Self-hostable tool to convert non-DRM eBooks into audiobooks with chapter support, metadata, multilingual TTS engines, and optional voice cloning via a web UI or CLI.

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Speechify+7

Opik is an open-source platform to trace, evaluate, and monitor LLM apps, RAG pipelines, and agent workflows with automated evaluations and production dashboards.

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LangSmith+10

Open-source platform for AI chat, RAG, agents, and enterprise search across your team’s connected knowledge sources, compatible with hosted and local LLMs.

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Onyx+19

Fail2Ban monitors service logs for repeated failures and automatically bans abusive IP addresses by updating firewall rules for a configurable time.

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CrowdSec

Leon is an open-source personal assistant that runs on your server, enabling privacy-focused automation through modular skills with text and optional voice interaction.

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Amazon Alexa+6

Open-source, privacy-first automated time tracker with local storage, extensible watchers, and dashboards for analyzing app, browser, and coding activity.

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RescueTime+6

Self-hosted web app to browse, read, download, and manage eBooks from an existing Calibre library, with OPDS catalogs, user permissions, and device sync options.

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BookFusion+4

Open-source collaborative documentation and wiki platform with real-time editing, offline sync, export features and flexible self-hosting options.

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Notion+17

Collaborative note-taking, wiki, and documentation platform with real-time editing, access control, and offline support. Built with Django and React/Next.js.

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Notion+19

A Python-based notification library and CLI that routes messages to 120+ services via URL-based configurations, enabling self-hosted cross-platform alerts.

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Twilio+4

Windmill is an open-source developer platform to turn scripts into webhooks, cron jobs, workflows, and internal apps with auto-generated and low-code UIs.

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Windmill+12

Mail-in-a-Box is a one-click mail server appliance for Ubuntu, bundling SMTP/IMAP, webmail, DNS, TLS automation, backups, and an admin control panel.

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Microsoft Exchange Online+15

JupyterLab is an extensible web-based IDE for Jupyter notebooks, code, terminals, and data exploration with rich outputs and a plugin-based interface.

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Anaconda Notebooks+15

Beets is a command-line music library manager that catalogs collections and automatically fixes tags using MusicBrainz, with a powerful plugin ecosystem.

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MediaMonkey+4

Self-hosted file sync and share platform with libraries, sharing links, versioning, and optional end-to-end encrypted libraries for private team collaboration.

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Dropbox+19

Open-source proofreading and writing assistant that checks spelling, grammar, punctuation, and style across 30+ languages, with an HTTP API for integrations.

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Grammarly+4

LibreTranslate is a free, open-source machine translation API you can run on your own infrastructure, with offline-capable translations and a simple HTTP API.

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Google Translate

BorgBackup is a deduplicating backup program with authenticated encryption and compression for Unix-like systems.

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BorgBase+14

FlareSolverr is a proxy server with a REST API that uses a headless Chrome session to solve Cloudflare/DDoS-GUARD challenges and return HTML and cookies.

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Browserless+7

A lightweight web interface for yt-dlp (youtube-dl fork) that manages queued downloads, playlists, and filename templates via Docker or local Python/Angular setup.

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4K Video Downloader+10

CrowdSec is an open-source security engine that detects attacks from logs and blocks malicious IPs using bouncers and community-curated threat intelligence.

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Fail2Ban+10

Self-hosted recipe manager with URL imports, meal planning, shopping lists, cookbooks, and an API-first backend with a Vue web interface.

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Paprika Recipe Manager+8

Whoogle Search is a self-hosted, ad-free and privacy-respecting search frontend that removes tracking, ads, AMP links, and other clutter from Google results.

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Google Search+5

Open source tool to publish SQLite databases as an interactive website with a JSON API, with a powerful plugin system for search, auth, and customization.

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Directus Cloud+10

Grist is a modern relational spreadsheet that combines spreadsheet usability with a database-style data model, supporting Python formulas, dashboards, and integrations.

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Airtable+14

Eclipse Mosquitto is a lightweight, open-source MQTT broker supporting MQTT 5.0 and 3.1.1, plus client libraries and CLI tools for pub/sub messaging.

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EMQX Cloud+11

ESPHome generates custom firmware for ESP32/ESP8266 and other boards from YAML, enabling local smart home devices with Home Assistant, API, and MQTT integration.

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Blynk+15