FluxMedia
A premium, cross-platform media portal and processing toolkit.
FluxMedia is a production-ready media manager, automated downloader, and local streaming gateway wrapped in a responsive terminal application and web interface.
📢 Latest Release: v1.8.0
- Feature: Unified cross-platform
install.pyand interactive cookie failure prompts. - Bug Fix: Resolved YouTube bot protection checks and cookie loading crashes.
- Docs: Updated visual previews with real screenshots.
🌟 Key Features
- Universal Extraction Core: Seamlessly download high-quality videos, playlists, audio streams, channel collections, and subtitles powered by a robust wrapper around
yt-dlp. - Sync Play (Watch Party) [Beta]: Synchronize media playback across all connected devices on your local network, perfect for hosting local watch parties.
- FluxMedia Web UI: A beautiful, responsive React-based web dashboard to remotely control your downloads, manage files, and host Watch Parties directly from your browser.
- Built-in LAN Sharing Gateway: Share downloaded files instantly to any device on your local network using a built-in password-protected HTTP server with QR code access.
- Instagram Profile Downloader [Beta]: Batch download media directly from Instagram profiles with our new custom extraction module.
- Advanced Post-Processing: Automatically extract audio (MP3/M4A/FLAC), merge separate audio/video formats, inject descriptions and tags, and embed album artwork via FFmpeg.
- Universal OS Support: The cross-platform
install.pyscript automatically resolves dependencies across Windows (winget), macOS (brew), Android Termux (pkg), and virtually all Linux package managers (apt,pacman,dnf,apk,zypper,xbps).
💻 Visual Preview
📸 Click here to view the FluxMedia screenshots!
FluxMedia CLI Main Dashboard
Initial Setup & Disclaimer
FluxMedia Web Dashboard
🚀 Quick Start
1. Installation
Cross-Platform (Python):
Ensure Python 3 is installed, then you can install directly via pip:
pip install fluxmedia
View Installation Screenshot
Alternatively, download and run the installer:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pdev-labs/FluxMedia/main/install.py
python3 install.py
Linux / macOS / Termux (Bash):
curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pdev-labs/FluxMedia/main/install.sh | bash
Windows (PowerShell):
iex (irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pdev-labs/FluxMedia/main/install.ps1)
Alternatively, you can install directly via pip:
pip install fluxmedia
(Android/Termux Users: Pydantic-core requires compilation. See the Installation Guide for the correct pip command.)
For detailed, OS-specific manual installation instructions, please check the Installation Guide.
2. Usage
Launch the interactive console portal:
fluxmedia
Launch the newly added Web UI dashboard (also accessible by pressing W in the main menu):
fluxmedia --web
Or open the Textual TUI dashboard directly:
fluxmedia --tui
📚 Documentation
Detailed user guides and developer docs are organized in the docs/ folder:
- 📥 Installation Guide — Step-by-step setup guides for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android (Termux).
- ⚙️ Configuration Guide — Explanations of config options, directories, and customization schemas.
- 📦 Downloader Engine — Internals on formatting flags, post-processors, and download strategies.
- 📶 LAN QR Share Portal — Guide to local HTTP streaming, REST API endpoints, and authentication tokens.
- 🛠️ Troubleshooting Guide — Common solutions for SSL issues, Windows Defender configurations, and storage permissions.
- 📖 Frequently Asked Questions — Answers to common developer and user questions.
- 🏗️ Architecture Overview — Codebase directory layout, dynamic imports, and module dependencies.
🗺️ Roadmap
We are constantly improving the platform. Here are our high-level goals:
- Milestone 1: Parallel multi-threaded downloading and expanded website extractors.
- Milestone 2: In-terminal visual video trimming and custom TUI styling themes.
- Milestone 3: Multi-user permissions on the share portal and upgraded web player seeking.
Check out ROADMAP.md for our complete milestones plan.
🤝 Contributing
We welcome all contributions! Whether you are fixing type errors, adding new feature modules, or enhancing the documentation:
- Review the Contributing Guide.
- Ensure you adhere to the Code of Conduct.
- If you modify any frontend web assets, remember to run the repack builder:
python repack.py
📜 License & Credits
FluxMedia is open-source software licensed under the GPL v3 License.
Credits
- Core extraction engine powered by yt-dlp.
- Terminal styling and layouts powered by rich and textual.
- Audio tagging powered by mutagen.
1 maintainer
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