yt-dlp-server
Web / REST interface for downloading YouTube videos and saving them as MP3s (by frznman)
youtube-browser-extension
youtube-chrome-extension (by swyxio)
| yt-dlp-server | youtube-browser-extension | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 9 | 5 | |
| - | - | |
| 10.0 | 10.0 | |
| over 2 years ago | over 1 year ago | |
| Python | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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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.
yt-dlp-server
Posts with mentions or reviews of yt-dlp-server.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-28.
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Tell HN: YouTube's web UI just got even worse
Something like this: https://github.com/frznman/yt-dlp-server
In my case I stuck my instance (not that exact software but similar) behind Caddy and added basic auth. Then I just setup Shortcuts or bookmarklets that just did:
curl -X POST --data-urlencode "url={{url}}" http://{{address}}:8080/yt/q
youtube-browser-extension
Posts with mentions or reviews of youtube-browser-extension.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-28.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing yt-dlp-server and youtube-browser-extension you can also consider the following projects:
youtube - a static site with my youtube subscriptions deployed via Github Actions with a cronjob
Telik - macOS app to track YouTube channels and playlists
yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
scripts - Various python scripts
FreeTube - An Open Source YouTube app for privacy
Piped - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.