Instead of manually hunting through indexers and stitching chapter files together, ReadMeABook automates the entire audiobook request, download, and M4B library organization pipeline for Audiobookshelf and Plex. Users search an Audible-backed catalog by title, author, narrator, or series, inspect full book summaries with runtime and publisher metadata, and submit one-click requests from a clean browser portal. Once approved, the engine queries Prowlarr across torrent and Usenet indexers, dispatches releases to qBittorrent or SABnzbd, and monitors download progress until completion. Multi-file MP3 downloads merge automatically into a single chapterized M4B audiobook via FFmpeg, complete with embedded cover art, narrator tags, and series ordering metadata before triggering a media server library scan. Not sure what to listen to next? BookDate pairs OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, or local LLM endpoints with a swipeable card deck that learns your reading tastes and queues new titles with a single swipe right. Optional e-book sidecar fetching grabs companion EPUB or PDF files alongside audio releases, while multi-user approval queues, OIDC single sign-on, Goodreads shelf syncing, and Discord, Pushover, Apprise, or ntfy notifications keep household libraries running smoothly. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

For video enthusiasts and media archivers who want complete ownership over their online video subscriptions, MyTube provides a self-hosted video downloader, library organizer, and streaming portal. Paste a single link or queue a batch of URLs from YouTube, Bilibili, Twitch, MissAV, and over one thousand yt-dlp compatible sites to archive videos directly to your disk. Subscribe to your favorite creators so new uploads download automatically in the background alongside their default language subtitles. Local video uploads automatically generate thumbnails and pull movie or television posters, cast details, release years, and ratings from TMDB. Curate custom collections, filter your catalog by tags or authors, and generate private RSS feed links for external podcast and feed readers. Built-in playback tools include keyboard shortcuts, cinema mode, Canvas-based in-car playback, and optional real-time audio translation with live subtitles via Google Gemini. You can sync finished recordings to Alist or OpenList cloud storage, trigger custom shell scripts on task completion, and receive instant Telegram bot alerts when downloads finish or fail. Share your library safely using read-only visitor accounts while protecting admin controls with WebAuthn passkeys or a 3x3 gesture lock. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Archiving YouTube channels and playlists into a local media server becomes effortless with Pinchflat, a self-hosted media manager that automates downloading, naming, and organizing online video and audio libraries on disk. Instead of manually copying links into command-line downloaders, you define reusable Media Profiles with presets tailored for Plex, Jellyfin, Kodi, or raw archival storage, and then attach any number of YouTube channels or playlists as monitored sources. Fast Indexing polls RSS feeds or the YouTube API to detect newly published uploads within minutes while falling back to scheduled full scans so back-catalog videos are never missed. Granular source rules let you include or exclude YouTube Shorts and livestreams, filter titles by keyword patterns, enforce earliest upload cutoff dates, and set automatic retention windows that prune older files after a configured number of days. Built-in SponsorBlock integration marks or strips sponsor segments and embeds chapters alongside thumbnails, subtitles, and NFO metadata files so episodes appear cleanly inside your home theater library. You can also schedule Delayed Redownloads a few days after initial publication to capture higher-bitrate transcodes or crowd-sourced SponsorBlock tags, supply browser cookies for private playlists, and subscribe to any archived source in mobile podcast players through generated RSS feeds. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.