FlexGet vs you-get

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FlexGet		you-get
	Project
2	Mentions	7
1,687	Stars	49,240
1.5%	Growth	-
9.6	Activity	5.3
1 day ago	Latest Commit	9 days ago
Python	Language	Python
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

FlexGet

Posts with mentions or reviews of FlexGet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Series AEW Rampage with identified_by value date are not supported
1 project | /r/flexget | 27 Mar 2023
[Solution] Batch selection of specific files in multiple torrents
1 project | /r/torrents | 3 Mar 2021

Also I want to give credit to FlexGet creators (https://github.com/Flexget/Flexget) coz I took crucial part of the script from their code (MIT licensed) with little changes.

you-get

Posts with mentions or reviews of you-get. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-01.

How do I run a python3 module I installed via pip3?
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 8 Nov 2022

I installed you-get on my Linux Mint system via:
Dumb downloader that scrapes the web
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Oct 2022
Show HN: A Qt based GUI for many CLI based online media downloaders
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Aug 2022
you-get is now throwing 412 errors on some Bilibili videos. I don't know what to do
1 project | /r/commandline | 9 May 2022

Yes. That lovely program started to fail on me from today. I've used it plenty of times to download from Bilibili without any issue for months, as it seems to support more features than other downloaders (notably youtube-dl forks and annie).
技术向：有网页视频下载器推荐吗？
1 project | /r/China_irl | 8 Dec 2021

you-get挺好用，不过是命令行工具
Unable to download from bilibili
3 projects | /r/youtubedl | 12 Nov 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing FlexGet and you-get you can also consider the following projects:

youtube-dl - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

Monkey-DL (Anime Downloader) - Bulk download your favourite anime episodes from your favourite anime websites

yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

PyIDM - python open source (Internet Download Manager) with multi-connections, high speed engine, based on python, LibCurl, and youtube_dl https://github.com/firedm/FireDM [Moved to: https://github.com/firedm/FireDM]

s4cmd - Super S3 command line tool

archiveis - A simple Python wrapper for the archive.is capturing service

akshare - AKShare is an elegant and simple financial data interface library for Python, built for human beings! 开源财经数据接口库

spotify-downloader - Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata (from YouTube if a match is found).

s3cmd - Official s3cmd repo -- Command line tool for managing S3 compatible storage services (including Amazon S3 and CloudFront).