Youtarr Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Youtarr hosting and keep your favourite YouTube channels flowing into a library you own. xCloud runs the pinned Youtarr v1.88.0 image with a private MariaDB database, generates the admin password and database credentials, mounts persistent volumes for videos, settings, jobs, thumbnails and the database, and publishes the web interface over HTTPS in minutes — login is required from the first request.

Deploy your Youtarr

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What is Youtarr?

Youtarr is a self-hosted YouTube downloader that automatically downloads videos from your favourite channels and playlists. It uses yt-dlp under the hood, organises downloads by channel with metadata and thumbnails, and is managed through a responsive web interface.

Youtarr works standalone, with in-browser playback of downloaded videos, and can also feed Plex, Kodi, Jellyfin and Emby. It runs as two containers: the Youtarr application and a MariaDB database.

From Sign-Up to a Live Video Library In Just 3 Easy Steps

A Youtarr stack normally means an app container, a database, generated credentials, five volumes, a domain and a certificate before the first download. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Youtarr from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server — there are no extra fields to fill in, because xCloud generates the credentials.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Youtarr image and a private MariaDB 10.3 database kept off the public internet, both pinned by immutable digest, mount the youtarr_data, youtarr_config, youtarr_jobs, youtarr_images and youtarr_db volumes, generate the admin and database passwords, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Add Your First Channels
Save the administrator password from the protected installation credentials, allow one to two minutes for the database to initialise, then open your HTTPS Youtarr URL and sign in as admin. Add your first channels and set the schedule and quality under Settings.

Everything Youtarr Does, On Your Own Server

Youtarr runs in full here: channel tracking, scheduled downloads and a browsable library behind a login, backed by a database you own.

Channel Subscriptions
Subscribe to channels and Youtarr downloads their new videos, shorts and streams automatically, with per-tab controls.
Scheduled Downloads
Set a cron-based schedule and a quality from 360p to 4K, globally or per channel, and let new videos arrive without opening the app.
Browse And Play In The Browser
Open any thumbnail for extended metadata and stream the downloaded video in the web interface — no media server required.
Optional Plex Notification
Add a Plex server in Settings and Youtarr notifies it when new videos finish downloading, with metadata files written for Plex, Kodi, Jellyfin and Emby.
Login From The First Request
The web interface asks for the generated admin credentials before anything else; there is no open sign-up.
Private MariaDB Included
The bundled MariaDB database is reachable only inside the install's private network, with no published port.

Everything You Need To Run Your Video Library 24/7

Managed hosting for Youtarr, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Youtarr v1.88.0 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Admin and database passwords generated
Kept behind xCloud nginx
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Youtarr

Keep a channel archive current
Subscribe to the channels you follow and let new videos land in your library on a schedule, so a video that is later deleted or made private is already saved.
Watch without ads or tracking
Stream downloaded videos from the browser-based library, or offline from your own server, without interruptions.
Feed a Plex library
Add your Plex server in Settings and Youtarr notifies it when downloads finish, with channel folders you can map to separate libraries.
Curate a family-friendly collection
Group channels into custom subfolders such as kids, music or news to build separate libraries from the same downloader.

Youtarr Screenshots

Youtarr web interface after signing in as admin

Youtarr video library listing downloaded videos

Youtarr video library still populated after an xCloud Restart

Youtarr vs Alternatives

Pinchflat: A single-container YouTube media manager (Elixir/Phoenix with SQLite) with flexible filename templating; upstream's comparison notes it has no built-in player and no REST API.
Tube Archivist: A multi-container YouTube media server (Django, Elasticsearch and Redis) with full-text search over subtitles and comments, which upstream's comparison says needs more memory than Youtarr's two containers.
yt-dlp on its own: The command-line downloader Youtarr is built on. Youtarr adds channel subscriptions, scheduling, a web interface and a library on top of it.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Youtarr hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom and disk if Youtarr sits alongside a media server.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Youtarr itself is licensed by its maintainers under ISC.

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Youtarr on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
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From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

How do I sign in?

Use the username admin and the password generated at install, shown in the protected installation credentials.

What runs alongside Youtarr?

A private MariaDB database that is not reachable from outside the server.

Can I change the password inside the app?

Not durably. The administrator is re-applied from the environment on every start, so an in-app change reverts at the next restart. Edit AUTH_PRESET_PASSWORD in the environment and redeploy instead.

Edit environment variables and redeploy

Why do some downloads fail with a sign-in message?

YouTube may challenge requests from datacenter IP addresses. If downloads fail with a bot check, upload a cookies file under Settings. Only download content you are permitted to download.

Does it work with Plex?

Optionally. Add your Plex server in Settings and Youtarr notifies it when new videos finish downloading. Plex is not required; Youtarr also plays downloaded videos in the browser.

Who can see my downloaded videos?

Login is required from the first request, but anyone who is signed in can read every downloaded video, so keep the password private.

What should I back up?

All five volumes together — youtarr_data (videos), youtarr_config (settings, cookies, logs), youtarr_jobs, youtarr_images (thumbnails) and youtarr_db (database) — stopping the stack first, plus the environment values. Youtarr's in-app backup and restore are not available in this template.

Backups in xCloud

What survives a restart?

Downloaded videos, settings, thumbnails and the database live on persistent named volumes and survived an xCloud Restart in QA.

How much disk do downloads need?

The template's baseline asks for 20 GB of disk, but downloaded videos are stored on the server's disk and can grow quickly, so plan more disk for the channels you track.

Why does the first load take a minute or two?

On first start Youtarr waits for the database to initialise and applies migrations. Allow one to two minutes, then refresh if the page does not load yet.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Youtarr?

No. The template pins Youtarr v1.88.0 and MariaDB 10.3 by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release, existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Back up first, read the upstream release notes, then bump the readable tag and digest together on your own schedule. Server-level backups and snapshots are available on every Cloud VPS.

What are the server requirements, and why does this page sell 6 GB?

The template's baseline asks for 1 CPU core, 256 MB of RAM and 20 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 148 MiB. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, which leaves headroom for downloads and more disk than the baseline.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Youtarr?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the Youtarr project has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source Youtarr project, licensed under ISC.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.