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Top 23 Python self-hosted Projects
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khoj
Your AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turn any online or local LLM into your personal, autonomous AI (gpt, claude, gemini, llama, qwen, mistral). Get started - free.
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Stream
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changedetection.io
Best and simplest tool for website change detection, web page monitoring, and website change alerts. Perfect for tracking content changes, price drops, restock alerts, and website defacement monitoring—all for free or enjoy our SaaS plan!
Project mention: rostral.io VS changedetection.io - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/rostral.io | 2025-08-05Rostral.io is an open-source tool for document monitoring with a focus on semantic analysis. Unlike traditional change detectors that track text differences, it processes PDFs, HTML, and JSON using local LLMs (like Deepseek) to identify meaningful modifications in legal texts, contracts, or regulations. The system uses YAML templates to define monitoring rules and can integrate with analysis tools. Designed for researchers and analysts who need to track substantive changes rather than just surface-level edits. Self-hosted for data-sensitive workflows.
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ArchiveBox
🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...
Project mention: Adguard DNS received suspicious pressure to block archive.is | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-15Friendly reminder that archive box exists to let you self host your own archive service.
https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
I dream of a day where archivebox becomes a fleet of homelabs all over the world making it drastically harder to block them all.
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airbyte
The leading data integration platform for ETL / ELT data pipelines from APIs, databases & files to data warehouses, data lakes & data lakehouses. Both self-hosted and Cloud-hosted.
Project mention: Migrate connectors from MIT to ELv2 – Pull Request #63723 – airbytehq/airbyte | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-15 -
docs
A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales. Built with Django and React. (by suitenumerique)
How does this compare with the French/German https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs ?
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Project mention: YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-10
One tool you might like is MeTube. While it can't schedule anything, I have it running it on a headless Beelink computer. So if I want to grab a video or channel, I can open a browser on any device, go to the server, and tell it to fetch whatever I want. The download location is set to a NAS so I can view the media with any device as well. It even supports extended yt-dlp options, so you can even tell it to use things like SponsorBlock. It's pretty great overall
https://github.com/alexta69/metube
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mealie
Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI backend and a reactive frontend application built in Vue for a pleasant user experience for the whole family. Easily add recipes into your database by providing the url and mealie will automatically import the relevant data or add a family recipe with the UI editor
Project mention: Mealie: Self hosted recipe manager and meal planner | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-03 -
InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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linkding
Self-hosted bookmark manager that is designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.
Project mention: Perkeep lets you permanently keep your stuff, for life | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-11FWIW I've had success with self-hosted [LinkDing](https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding) and the firefox SingleFile plugin (so it archives what I'm seeing / gets around logins etc). LinkDing also links directly to Internet Archive for any URL.
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Project mention: The RomM Project: all-in-one app for managing your game collection | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-26
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flagsmith
Flagsmith is an open source feature flagging and remote config service. Self-host or use our hosted version at https://app.flagsmith.com.
Project mention: How I’d scale a side project to 1 million users (without melting my server) | dev.to | 2025-08-28Flagsmith easy feature flagging for your sanity
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Project mention: Disqus Turned My Blog into an Ad Farm – So I Killed It | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-30
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cloudflare-ddns
🎉🌩️ Dynamic DNS (DDNS) service based on Cloudflare! Access your home network remotely via a custom domain name without a static IP!
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Pinry
Pinry, a tiling image board system for people who want to save, tag, and share images, videos and webpages in an easy to skim through format. It's open-source and self-hosted.
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baserow
Open-source no-code platform and the best alternative to Airtable. Build databases, applications, automations, and dashboards — all in one secure, self-hostable environment. Empower your team to create powerful tools without writing a single line of code.
Have any thoughts on how it compares to https://baserow.io/ ?
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Project mention: Show HN: Vince – A self hosted alternative to Google Analytics | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-28
can we compare it with Shynet? https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet
Shynet is similarly self hostable, and has a tiny footprint..
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yunohost
YunoHost is an operating system aiming to simplify as much as possible the administration of a server. This repository corresponds to the core code, written mostly in Python and Bash.
supports well-known self-hosted programs such as Nextcloud, Matrix, and WordPress. Find more: The official Yunohost site
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Baby Buddy
A :baby: buddy to help caregivers track sleep, feedings, diaper changes, tummy time and more to learn about and predict baby's needs without (as much) guess work.
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openrecall
OpenRecall is a fully open-source, privacy-first alternative to proprietary solutions like Microsoft's Windows Recall. With OpenRecall, you can easily access your digital history, enhancing your memory and productivity without compromising your privacy.
I know this is satire, but there is actually one and one you actually control. May be useful to remember who said what and where. It can be useful. Just not the way a megacorp implements it.
Here is it [unaffiliated, untested by me, unvetted]: https://github.com/openrecall/openrecall
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I work on Harbor (https://github.com/av/harbor), it is a project to save hours when setting up LLMs locally.
I pre-integrated over 50 different LLM-related projects, added a nice CLI and a Desktop app on top to manage the configs.
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source self-hosted projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | khoj | 31,564 |
| 2 | changedetection.io | 28,455 |
| 3 | ArchiveBox | 25,548 |
| 4 | airbyte | 19,993 |
| 5 | docs | 14,712 |
| 6 | MeTube | 10,772 |
| 7 | mealie | 10,505 |
| 8 | linkding | 9,521 |
| 9 | romm | 6,945 |
| 10 | flagsmith | 6,045 |
| 11 | wger | 5,321 |
| 12 | Isso | 5,201 |
| 13 | 13ft | 3,915 |
| 14 | cloudflare-ddns | 3,586 |
| 15 | Pinry | 3,289 |
| 16 | baserow | 3,238 |
| 17 | Shynet | 3,086 |
| 18 | yunohost | 2,722 |
| 19 | portainer-templates | 2,703 |
| 20 | Baby Buddy | 2,565 |
| 21 | openrecall | 2,525 |
| 22 | harbor | 2,144 |
| 23 | pypiserver | 1,973 |
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