# YouTube

[YouTube](https://youtube.com) is a online video sharing platform.

## Alternative Frontends

There are some alternative frontends available that also feature user managament
including subscriptions.
A self-hosting alternative is [Invidious](/wiki/invidious.md).
For Android phones [NewPipe](https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe) is
available in the [F-Droid Appstore](/wiki/android/f-droid.md).

## Downloading YouTube Videos

YouTube videos can be downloaded.
Some [alternative frontends](#alternative-frontends) feature downloading of
videos or making them offline available.
As a command line utility [yt-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl) can be
used.
Since yt-dl is stagnant its fork [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) is
recommended.
[MeTube](/wiki/metube.md) is a self-hostable web user interface for
[yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp).