Yubal Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Yubal on xCloud and get Yubal hosting that turns YouTube Music album and playlist links into a tagged, organised music library on your own server. xCloud runs the pinned image behind a Caddy gateway that asks for your username and generated password on every request, keeps the Yubal container private, mounts persistent volumes for your library and settings and publishes the site over HTTPS. Download only what you may keep.

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What is Yubal?

Yubal is a self-hosted YouTube Music downloader: paste a link and get a tagged, organised library. A self-hosted Yubal takes a YouTube Music URL and writes artist and album folders with tagged audio, cover art and synced .lrc lyrics, with scheduled sync, deduplication and a browser extension, and the layout is meant for media servers. Upstream describes it for personal archiving. It is MIT licensed.

On xCloud the install runs Yubal 0.10.0, pinned by digest, behind a Caddy 2.10.2 gateway that enforces HTTP Basic Authentication across the web interface and API, because Yubal has no sign-in of its own. Two volumes hold yubal_data for the music library and yubal_config for the database, cache and cookies. Scheduled sync runs daily at midnight UTC unless changed.

From Sign-Up to Your First Download In Just 3 Easy Steps

A Yubal install normally means a container, a reverse proxy with authentication, two volumes, a domain and a certificate before the first album. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Yubal from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server, then keep the default username or change it — a strong password is generated for you.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Yubal image, pinned by immutable digest, behind a pinned Caddy 2.10.2 gateway that enforces HTTP Basic Authentication, keep Yubal itself off the public internet, mount the yubal_data and yubal_config volumes, and publish the gateway over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Download Your First Album
Save the password from the protected installation credentials, open your HTTPS Yubal URL and enter the username and password when your browser asks. Then paste a YouTube Music album or playlist link to start your first download.

Everything Yubal Does, On Your Own Server

Yubal runs in full here: a web interface and API for downloading and organising YouTube Music, kept private behind a password on a server you control.

Albums, Playlists And Tracks
Paste any YouTube Music link and Yubal produces organised files in artist and album folders, with playlists written as M3U files that reference the tracks.
Scheduled Sync
Subscribe to playlists or albums and Yubal syncs them on a schedule so new tracks appear in your library. This install syncs daily at 00:00, in UTC unless you change the timezone.
Tags, Lyrics And ReplayGain
Downloads are tagged, get synced .lrc lyrics files where available and, on amd64 servers, receive ReplayGain values for consistent volume (the arm64 image skips that step).
Ready For Your Media Server
Upstream tests the library layout with Navidrome, Jellyfin and Gonic, so you can point a music server at it.
Optional Cookies For Private Content
Add a cookies.txt exported from a logged-in browser in the app settings to reach private playlists and age-restricted tracks.
Private By Default
Yubal has no sign-in of its own, so the gateway puts a username and a generated password in front of the whole site, API included. Unauthenticated and wrong-password requests get 401.

Everything You Need To Run Your Music Library 24/7

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

Yubal 0.10.0 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Password-protected gateway included
Kept behind xCloud nginx
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
Choose your server region
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Yubal

Turn links into a library
Paste album and playlist links and end up with organised, tagged files that you keep on your own server instead of a streaming catalogue.
Keep playlists up to date
Subscribe to a playlist or album and let the daily scheduled sync pull in new tracks without another visit to the page.
Feed a media server
Point your media server at the downloaded library, with artists and playlists that link up in the servers upstream has tested.
Reach private playlists
Add a cookies.txt from a logged-in browser to download private playlists and age-restricted tracks that need an account.

Yubal Screenshots

Yubal's Downloads page with the album or playlist URL field and Download button, shown before any downloads

Yubal vs Alternatives

The YouTube Music app: The YouTube Music app streams music from YouTube's service. Yubal downloads tagged files to a server you control, which you can then serve from a media server, for music you are allowed to keep.
Lidarr: In a Yubal vs Lidarr comparison, Lidarr has its own OneClick page. Its catalogue entry describes a music collection manager that follows chosen artists and organises downloads from the sources you configure.
Beets: Beets has its own OneClick page. It tags and organises a music library you already have, where Yubal fetches from YouTube Music and writes the tags and folders as it downloads.
yt-dlp: The command-line downloader Yubal is built on. Yubal adds a web interface, job queue, tagging, lyrics, scheduled sync and an organised folder layout on top.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Yubal sits alongside a media server and other apps.

$59.99per month

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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. Yubal itself is licensed by its maintainers under MIT.

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Ready To Run Your Own Music Downloader?

Yubal 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.
Intuitive Control Panel
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.

Can you self-host Yubal with Docker?

Yes, and this template is Yubal Docker hosting without the setup. Upstream ships a container image; here xCloud runs the pinned ghcr.io guillevc/yubal 0.10.0 image behind a Caddy gateway, mounts two volumes, generates the password and publishes HTTPS on your domain.

How much RAM does Yubal need?

Plan on one core, 512 MB of RAM and 5 GB of disk at minimum; QA saw about 120 MB idle. The 6 GB plan is the entry rung here, but the music library will need more disk as it grows.

Does Yubal have its own login?

No. Yubal has no sign-in of its own. xCloud puts an HTTP Basic Authentication gateway in front of the whole site, web interface and API, and your browser asks for the username and generated password before anything else loads.

How do I sign in to Yubal?

Open your HTTPS URL and enter the username and generated password from the protected installation credentials when your browser asks. You can rotate them in the Environment editor and redeploy. Allow about 30 seconds after install for Yubal to start.

What does the Yubal scheduled sync do?

It syncs all your subscriptions daily at 00:00, in UTC unless you change the YUBAL_TZ timezone setting, so new tracks in subscribed playlists or albums appear in your library. Nothing is subscribed until you add a subscription.

Can Yubal download private playlists?

Yes, by adding a cookies.txt exported from a logged-in browser in the app settings. Upstream warns that using cookies may trigger stricter rate limiting. Download only content you have the right to keep, and comply with the platform's terms.

Which media servers does Yubal work with?

Upstream tests the library with Navidrome, Jellyfin and Gonic. Jellyfin needs the non-standard artists tags option enabled in the library settings for multi-artist tracks. Point the server at the yubal_data volume's folder, and rescan the library after the first sync finishes.

What should I back up on a Yubal server?

Back up both volumes: yubal_data, which holds the music library, and yubal_config, which holds the SQLite database, the extraction cache and the cookies. Treat the config backup as sensitive because of the cookies, and keep copies off the server.

Backups in xCloud

How do I upgrade Yubal?

0.10.0 remains pinned until you take a newer template version. Copy yubal_data and yubal_config and look through the project's notes beforehand. xCloud never upgrades a running site, and a redeploy keeps the library and settings.

Is Yubal free?

Yes. Yubal is MIT licensed, which means no fee for the software. You pay for the dedicated Cloud VPS, whose disk holds the library, and upstream notes it is for personal archiving of music you may keep.

Is there a Yubal cloud service?

Not through this page. Yubal cloud hosting here means your own downloader runs on a Cloud VPS that xCloud prepares, with the library and database on volumes you own, behind a gateway password and with no vendor account involved.

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.