CLUSTER OFFLINE-VIEWING-ONLINE · 58 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2013-04-08
Video downloading tools
The cluster comprises 54 tools for downloading video and audio from YouTube and other streaming sites, ranging from command-line utilities and TUIs to web apps, GUIs, and a Discord bot. The dated history shows a sparse entry pattern in the late 2000s and early 2010s, with a gradual increase in monthly entries from 2020 onward, though no month before the index start exceeds three entries. Traction among members is low, with vget-cli leading at 8 stars, followed by media-downloader (3 stars) and miutima (1 star).
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 ai-built · 2 hand-coded · 17 unlabelled
Operator · 9 hobby · 4 open source · 7 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01vget-cli9★1 mo—Command-line video downloader that fetches media from streaming sites and stores it locally as MP4 or M3U8 files.
- 02miutima1★20 dayslivehand-codedhobbyCommand-line tool that downloads YouTube videos as MP4 or MP3 with clipboard support, search, history, and resumable downloads.
- 03PatronStash0★12 days—hobbyCommand-line tool that automatically archives posts, images, and videos from supported Patreon creators so users retain paid content offline.
- 04unidl0★23 days—ai-builtA terminal-based media downloader that browses, previews, and saves videos and documents from the internet, including protected streams.
- 05download-video-friend0★1 dayliveVideo downloader that saves videos from a link for offline viewing.
- 06youtube-live-stream-render0★4 days—hobbyTool that automatically broadcasts YouTube live streams 24/7 using videos from Google Drive.
- 07yt-chanvids0★1 moliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that lists a YouTube channel's videos and retrieves channel or video details.
- 08can-i-do-it0★3 days—hobbyWeb tool that extracts direct video and audio stream URLs from YouTube and proxies them for downloading.
- 09YoutubeVideoAndAudioDownloader0★1 mo—Tool for downloading audio and video content from online sources.
- 10mmcli-bin0★26 daysliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that downloads YouTube videos and converts audio and video formats.
- 11ConsoleDownloader0★8 days—hobbyConsole video downloader that saves videos from supported websites and direct links, packaged as a Windows executable.
- 12media-downloader3★1 mo—Tool that downloads media files such as videos and images from websites for offline viewing.
- 13all-video-downloader0★1 mo—hobbyA web tool that allows users to download videos from supported online platforms.
- 14yt-dlp-standalone-bin0★1 moliveopen sourceCommand-line utility that downloads audio and video from a wide range of websites.
- 15twitch-dl0★1 molivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line tool that downloads Twitch videos using multiple concurrent connections.
- 16ak-youtube-downloader0★1 moliveTool that downloads YouTube videos for offline viewing.
- 17yt-viewer-redesign0★1 mo—Self-hosted downloader that fetches videos and audio from YouTube and other sites for offline viewing.
- 18youtube-discord-bot0★1 mo—hobbyA Discord bot that downloads YouTube videos and extracts scripts, ready for deployment on Render.
- 19awaw0★1 mo—hobbyWeb tool that downloads YouTube videos or audio as temporary files retrievable from a browser.
- 20new40★1 mo—hobbyWeb app that downloads YouTube videos and audio for users by wrapping a command-line extraction tool in a hosted service.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.