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MeTube 2026.09.27 adds per-download video passwords, and a cancel that actually stops

The self-hosted yt-dlp web UI gains a video-password field for protected videos (pairable with presets), a full row for custom yt-dlp options, Python 3.14 in the image, and a fix so cancelling a download actually sends the right signal.

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MeTube, the self-hosted web UI for yt-dlp, shipped image 2026.09.27 on Sunday. The two changes a running install will notice: videos that need a password can now fetch with one, entered per download, and cancelling a download now actually stops it.

What changed

The release adds a video-password field for protected videos, the ones that ask for a password before they will play, and it pairs with presets, so a source you return to can be set up once and picked from the list. Installations that allow custom yt-dlp options get those options a full row in the UI instead of the cramped corner they had. Cancelling a download now handles the interrupt signal properly, so the download stops instead of quietly continuing in the container; the fix was one of several small correctness changes in the release.

The rest is housekeeping worth a line: the image ships Python 3.14 and the frontend moved to pnpm 12, and the CI now installs corepack rather than trusting whatever ships with Node. Nothing in the release changes the deployment shape; it is a tag update, and the images are already up under both alexta69/metube on Docker Hub and ghcr.io/alexta69/metube.

What MeTube is, briefly

It pastes into a browser what would otherwise be a terminal full of yt-dlp: drop in a link from YouTube or any of the hundreds of sites yt-dlp supports, and it downloads to your server: video, audio, subtitles and thumbnails; single videos, playlists or whole channels. Subscriptions to channels and playlists queue new uploads as they appear (checked hourly by default), three downloads run at once while the rest wait, and per download you pick quality, format and folder. Everything is configured through environment variables: the download directory, concurrency limits, output templates, and the state directory where the queue, history, subscriptions and uploaded cookies live. Restarting the container does not lose the queue or history; they live in that state directory. Give MeTube an update time and it upgrades yt-dlp nightly inside the container. The image is multi-arch (amd64 and arm64), AGPL-3.0, around 15,000 stars.

Worth pulling?

If you run MeTube, yes. The password field is new capability, and the cancel fix is the kind of bug you only notice when it bites: a download you cancelled keeps running, and you find out at the bandwidth bill or the disk.

My read

There is nothing to reconfigure: same volume, same environment, new tag. That is the shape a maintenance release should have, and the cancel fix is the part you will feel. If you download from video sites without MeTube, it remains the easiest way to keep those files on hardware you own: one container, a volume, and no account anywhere.

Source: the release notes and the repository.

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