Tube Archivist

Tube Archivist is a self-hosted YouTube media collection manager that indexes your video collection with metadata for organizing, searching, and playing archived YouTube videos offline.

Posted Mar 25, 2026

By Proxmox-Scripts

1 min read

Tube Archivist

In Development
This script is currently in active development and may be unstable or incomplete. Use in production environments is not recommended.

Installation

Default install:

  
bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVED/raw/main/ct/tubearchivist.sh)"

CPU: 4 cores RAM: 6144 MB Disk: 30 GB OS: Debian 13

Default Credentials

Username	Password
`admin`	`None`

Configuration

Config file:

/opt/tubearchivist/.env

Notes

Requires vm.max_map_count=262144 on the Proxmox host. Run sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144 on the host and add it to /etc/sysctl.conf for persistence.

ElasticSearch is configured with 1GB heap. Adjust /etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options.d/heap.options for larger collections.

Admin password is stored in /opt/tubearchivist/.env.

Minimum 6GB RAM recommended. ElasticSearch alone requires 2GB+.

Web Interface

Port: 8000

Links

Media & Streaming

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