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Top 23 youtube-dl Open-Source Projects
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Pro-tip: yt-dlp works great with TikTok, so you don’t have to actually open the page if you still wanna view the video.
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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.)
Project mention: Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-18This is badly needed, but in my case on iOS. There are alternative frontends to most social networks, that can be used or adapted, however. https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends .. is one list.. but there are others (for example listing alternative Instagram frontends)
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You can use an easier way for yt-dlp:
https://github.com/deniscerri/ytdlnis
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youtube-dl-gui
Open Video Downloader - A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Rust with Tauri and Vue + Typescript. (by jely2002)
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Project mention: Show HN: YouTube search barely works, I made a search form with advanced filters | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-05
The closest thing I can think of is Tube Archivist, which seems made for archiving large YouTube collections, including things like comments on videos.
I’ve had mixed luck with it and it’s a bit too heavy for my fairly limited needs. Youtube-dl hasn’t worked for me for the last month or so on it —- oddly enough I have a MeTube instance on the same physical machine (different VM) which is a lighter web UI for yt-dlp and which is still working fine. That’s Youtube’s fault I assume and not the fault of Tube Archivist.
https://www.tubearchivist.com/
https://github.com/alexta69/metube
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Project mention: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-24
I recently discovered Pinchflat [1], which seems like an *arr-inspired web alternative, and works great for me - I just need to add the videos I want downloaded to a playlist and it picks them up. Also uses yt-dlp under the hood.
1. https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat
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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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Project mention: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-24
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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)
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-dl discussion
youtube-dl related posts
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Interesting links - May 2026
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Yt-dlp – [Announcement] Bun support is now limited and deprecated
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yt-dlp: The CLI Video Downloader Developers Actually Use in 2026
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Subtitles From a YouTube Link Without Leaving the Browser
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Use gatonaranja to download YouTube videos 😺
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Show HN: YouTube search barely works, I made a search form with advanced filters
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I ported yt-dlp to WebAssembly to create a 100% client-side media downloader
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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 | 168,490 |
| 2 | ArchiveBox | 27,675 |
| 3 | Seal | 26,749 |
| 4 | MeTube | 13,778 |
| 5 | ytDownloader | 9,705 |
| 6 | youtube-dl-gui | 9,420 |
| 7 | alternative-front-ends | 8,910 |
| 8 | ytdlnis | 8,817 |
| 9 | youtube-dl-gui | 8,470 |
| 10 | tubearchivist | 8,089 |
| 11 | Parabolic | 6,108 |
| 12 | pinchflat | 5,013 |
| 13 | ytmdl | 3,466 |
| 14 | YoutubeDL-Material | 3,177 |
| 15 | SkyTube | 2,745 |
| 16 | tubesync | 2,738 |
| 17 | yt-dlp-web-ui | 2,462 |
| 18 | yt-dlp-gui | 2,458 |
| 19 | yark | 2,173 |
| 20 | youtube-dl-gui | 2,090 |
| 21 | gridplayer | 1,964 |
| 22 | Axiom | 1,693 |
| 23 | spotify-dl | 1,648 |
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