---
title: "Deploy Pinchflat YouTube media"
description: "Authenticated YouTube media automation with persistent downloads."
category: "Automation"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/pinchflat-youtube-media
---

# Deploy Pinchflat YouTube media

Authenticated YouTube media automation with persistent downloads.

**[Deploy Pinchflat YouTube media on Railway](https://railway.com/template/pinchflat-youtube-media)**

- **Creator:** Anton Orel's Projects
- **Category:** Automation
- **Total deploys:** 1

## Template content

### Pinchflat

- **Image:** ghcr.io/kieraneglin/pinchflat:latest@sha256:01b4f98aabaf3f5fe394213f7a32578c9e84e42080f52e2f8334021a4473b202
- **Health check:** /healthcheck
- **Public domain:** Yes

## Documentation

# 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](https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat), its bundled yt-dlp and media tools, and Railway volumes.

### Deployment Dependencies

- [Pinchflat source](https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat)
- One 5 GB Railway volume


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