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Top 23 Youtube Open-Source Projects
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new-pac
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Project mention: Discover the Future: Trending GitHub Projects Revolutionizing Tech 🌟 | dev.to | 2025-02-24
Stars: 35159 Author: tw93 Star the Pake repository⭐ ---
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Project mention: Show HN: Fast parser and generator for RSS, Atom, OPML and popular namespaces | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-06
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Project mention: Show HN: I made a Bluesky video downloader that can download videos from Bluesky | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-25
fwiw cobalt.tools already has support for bluesky videos
https://github.com/imputnet/cobalt
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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Hitomi-Downloader
:cake: Desktop utility to download images/videos/music/text from various websites, and more.
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Open Source Self-Hosted Information Dashboard
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youtube-music
YouTube Music Desktop App bundled with custom plugins (and built-in ad blocker / downloader)
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If you're running or using Invidious [1] - a YouTube proxy service - you're running or using Crystal.
[1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
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If you can't find a place to pay for it, then just do what Spotify did when they launched. I recommend Nuclear[0] for that
[0] https://nuclearplayer.com/
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Project mention: Las Vegas staff say MrBeast should be 'blacklisted', cite OSHA | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-26
The extensions displays an estimate based on how many of the extension's users disliked the video. Youtube doesn't expose an API for getting the exact dislike count, except to the creator of the video.
https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike/blob/main/...
https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/134791097/update-t...
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pytube
A lightweight, dependency-free Python library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos.
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Project mention: We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads [video] | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-27
Another tip for youtube is to use https://sponsor.ajay.app/ -- helps skip the ads that are increasingly embedded in the video itself.
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SpotiFlyer
Kotlin Multiplatform Music Downloader, Supports Spotify / Gaana / Youtube Music / Jio Saavn / SoundCloud.
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Project mention: LTT video on de-Googling removed for "violating community guidelines" | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-05
In your comment you said "the first video taken down from LTT", which is not true.
Yes, this might be the first video removed for _one specific reason_. This also might be the first video where he broke external links policy[1]
> Links to websites, apps, or other sources that give unauthorized access to audio content, audiovisual content, video games, software, or streaming services that normally require payment
as he left a sequence of links to "alternative YouTube UI"[2]
> YouTube Alternative Frontends - FreeTube - https://freetubeapp.io/ - LibreTube - https://libretube.dev/ - Yattee - https://github.com/yattee/yattee - Invidious - https://invidious.io/ - GrayJay - https://grayjay.app/ - Newpipe - https://newpipe.net/
[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9054257?hl=en&ref_...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHwP6S_jf7g
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react-player
A React component for playing a variety of URLs, including file paths, YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, SoundCloud, Streamable, Vimeo, Wistia and DailyMotion
Project mention: Show HN: Winamp and other media players, rebuilt for the web with Web Components | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-08The Mux marketing strategy is brilliant.
Take over or create new open source projects so that every developer comes across your company in the search for a video package.
Another example I noticed recently is https://github.com/cookpete/react-player
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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).
Youtube discussion
Youtube related posts
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Thank you Google for breaking my YouTube addiction
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Spotube is banned from using "Spotify API"
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Show HN: Downloads and saves any YouTube videos and playlists
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Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses
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Ask HN: Is there an accepted name for writing browser-based user scripts?
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The Singoff-agen — Learning Through Dumb Projects
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Show HN: I tried making YouTube safer for my kids
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A note from our sponsor - SurveyJS
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Youtube projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | new-pac | 62,047 |
| 2 | spotube | 40,361 |
| 3 | Pake | 38,464 |
| 4 | RSSHub | 36,855 |
| 5 | cobalt | 31,899 |
| 6 | lux | 29,525 |
| 7 | Plyr | 28,693 |
| 8 | Hitomi-Downloader | 24,910 |
| 9 | glance | 24,217 |
| 10 | youtube-music | 21,008 |
| 11 | FreeTube | 17,828 |
| 12 | Invidious | 17,257 |
| 13 | nuclear | 13,175 |
| 14 | return-youtube-dislike | 13,091 |
| 15 | pytube | 12,748 |
| 16 | YoutubeDownloader | 11,499 |
| 17 | MoneyPrinterV2 | 11,476 |
| 18 | SponsorBlock | 11,373 |
| 19 | SpotiFlyer | 10,762 |
| 20 | LibreTube | 9,760 |
| 21 | react-player | 9,717 |
| 22 | youtube-dl-gui | 9,369 |
| 23 | TensorFlow-Tutorials | 9,278 |
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