Deploy and Host Pinchflat YouTube media on Railway

Pinchflat is a self-hosted YouTube media manager that watches channels and playlists, applies download rules, and stores media for Plex, Jellyfin, Kodi, podcast feeds, or local playback.

About Hosting Pinchflat YouTube media

The template runs the official Pinchflat 2025.9.26 application behind its native generated Basic Auth. One 5 GB data volume preserves SQLite configuration, schedules, cookies, profiles, and downloaded media.

Why Deploy Pinchflat YouTube media on Railway

Railway provides HTTPS, generated access credentials, health-gated startup, and durable storage. The template limits yt-dlp worker concurrency to one per queue so the initial deployment has predictable contention.

Common Use Cases

Archive selected channels or playlists
Prepare media for Plex, Jellyfin, or Kodi
Generate podcast feeds from downloaded media

Dependencies for Pinchflat YouTube media Hosting

The deployment uses Pinchflat, its bundled yt-dlp and media tools, and Railway volumes.

Deployment Dependencies

Pinchflat source
One 5 GB Railway volume