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Top 23 youtube-dl Open-Source Projects
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Hitomi-Downloader
:cake: Desktop utility to download images/videos/music/text from various websites, and more.
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InfluxDB
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ArchiveBox
🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...
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alternative-front-ends
Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms (e.g. YouTube, Twitter, etc.)
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youtube-music
YouTube Music Desktop App bundled with custom plugins (and built-in ad blocker / downloader)
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ytmdl
A simple app to get songs from YouTube in mp3 format with artist name, album name etc from sources like iTunes, Spotify, LastFM, Deezer, Gaana etc.
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youtube-dl-gui
A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython. (by oleksis)
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spotify-dl
Spotify Downloader and alternative of Spotdl(python) tool made in NodeJS based on youtube-dl (by SwapnilSoni1999)
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You can put these options in a config file and they will become the default: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#configur...
Project mention: Ask HN: What Underrated Open Source Project Deserves More Recognition? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-07Two projects I greatly appreciate, allowing me to easily archive my bandcamp and GOG purchases (after the initial setup anyways):
https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader
https://github.com/Kalanyr/gogrepoc
And I recently learned about archivebox, which I think is going to be a fast favorite and finally let me clear out my mess of tabs/bookmarks: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
Project mention: How do I download my YouTube livestreams in higher resolutions for editing? Because it’s only letting me downlod at 480p and I streamed at 720p… | /r/VirtualYoutubers | 2023-07-01
Don't know about Ymusic as it doesn't seem open source, but seal [0] seems like a good alternative, based on yt-dl
0: https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal
Project mention: Show HN: A no-watermark video downloader for Any social media | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-17Well if yt-dlp is "too technical", there is always Open Video Downloader https://github.com/jely2002/youtube-dl-gui
Which is a GUI wrapper around it.
> Do you block YouTube on your network so you don't see content from that platform? I'd wager you don't.
I don't block YouTube, I just don't use any of their official frontends. There are plenty of alternatives in this space[1]. This might not work for everyone, but I get a much better UX with these tools. Not seeing ads is one benefit, but it's also about not being a participant in training algorithms that effectively cause psychological damage.
> I am pretty sure you pay for things that bring value or make thing easier for you in life
Of course. And I happily support content creators who don't rely on advertising or Google itself. I just refuse to be forced into a corrupt business model.
Anyway, I didn't mean to antagonize you, so apologies if my response came across that way.
[1]: https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends?tab=readme...
Project mention: Grandfathered YouTube Premium will see January price increase | /r/Android | 2023-12-07Install Firefox, ublock origin for desktop YouTube, install https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music for YTM outside of your browser, use revanced manager for the Android YTM app, stop paying a suckers tax lol
Project mention: ytmdl - Download songs from YouTube with metadata. v0.3.4 released with youtube as fallback for meta, output directory customizations and other fixes. | /r/opensource | 2023-11-28
There's a pinned issue on the github page about the state of mpv.net development from January 2023 where the dev says that they started working on a cross-platform successor of mpv.net instead.
Newpipe doesn't support playlist download. Use ytdlnis
Project mention: How do I get additional free content streams into Plex? (IE: Internet Archive) | /r/PleX | 2023-12-07this the one I use: https://github.com/Tzahi12345/YoutubeDL-Material
SkyTube (version 2.987): An open source YouTube client
(I used yark to archive it, so just install it, use the command 'yark view ML_Andrew_Ng' on the folder you put everything and it'll bring up a webpage where you can see the videos with the correct thumbnails and names.)
Project mention: Ask HN: Anyone else getting continuous adverts from YouTube? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-26https://github.com/meeb/tubesync
It will automatically download new videos from any public channel or playlist.
Als GUI gibts auch noch Axiom.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source youtube-dl projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | yt-dlp | 70,159 |
| 2 | Hitomi-Downloader | 19,826 |
| 3 | ArchiveBox | 19,737 |
| 4 | youtube-dl-gui | 9,117 |
| 5 | Seal | 7,677 |
| 6 | youtube-dl-gui | 6,289 |
| 7 | alternative-front-ends | 6,237 |
| 8 | youtube-music | 6,225 |
| 9 | tubearchivist | 4,043 |
| 10 | MeTube | 3,525 |
| 11 | ytmdl | 3,036 |
| 12 | mpv.net | 2,952 |
| 13 | ytdlnis | 2,536 |
| 14 | YoutubeDL-Material | 2,410 |
| 15 | SkyTube | 2,156 |
| 16 | yark | 1,839 |
| 17 | tubesync | 1,623 |
| 18 | youtube-dl-gui | 1,504 |
| 19 | Axiom | 1,335 |
| 20 | yt-whisper | 1,313 |
| 21 | smd | 1,279 |
| 22 | spotify-dl | 1,267 |
| 23 | youtube-dlc | 1,223 |
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