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Media extractor in Home Assistant
media_extractor
part of Home Assistant since 0.49
Calculated
Set up in the user interface
Quality: Internal
Media extractor is an official Home Assistant integration for Media player. Works on data Home Assistant already has, without a device of its own.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Calculated – Works on data Home Assistant already has, without a device of its own.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Integration
- Quality scale
- Internal – Part of Home Assistant itself, not rated separately.
- Installations
- 2,901 (0.4 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Media player
- Maintained by
- @joostlek
- Python packages
yt-dlp[default]==2026.07.04
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for Media extractor.
- Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.
The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration