Apps / Media
Pinchflat
Your next YouTube media manager
Pinchflat is a self-hosted app for downloading YouTube content built using yt-dlp. It's designed to be lightweight, self-contained, and easy to use. You set up rules for how to download content from YouTube channels or playlists and it'll do the rest, periodically checking for new content. It's perfect for people who want to download content for use in with a media center app (Plex, Jellyfin, Kodi) or for those who want to archive media!
CategoryMedia
Memory~200MB
Module
pinchflatInstalling it
Open the dashboard, go to Apps, press Add on it and apply the change. Or from a terminal on the box:
sudo homebox install pinchflatWhere to open it
| Service | Port | First login |
|---|---|---|
| Pinchflat | :8945 | No account — it opens straight into the sources list. |
Open it at your box's address with that port — the dashboard links to it directly once it is running.
Good to know
- Downloads land in /downloads, which is the pool — set a media profile that writes somewhere your media server already scans
- Start with 'download the last 3 videos' rather than a whole channel: a large back catalogue is hundreds of gigabytes and YouTube notices
- It has no login of its own, so anything that can reach the page can queue downloads