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 · 4 hand-coded · 15 unlabelled
Operator · 19 open source · 1 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.
- 21yle-dl0★3 moliveopen sourceDownloads video and audio from YLE Areena via a command-line tool.
- 22ytconverter0★4 moliveopen sourceCommand-line application for downloading videos and audio from YouTube.
- 23shrike-ytdown0★4 moliveopen sourceGTK3 application that downloads videos, audio, and thumbnails from YouTube channels.
- 24sami-tube-ai-download3★1 yrabandoned—ai-builtTool that downloads YouTube videos using AI-assisted processing for offline viewing.
- 25xvst0★4 moliveopen sourceGUI tool that downloads videos from sites like YouTube and GoogleVideo.
- 26ytui-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTUI tool that lets users search and play YouTube videos in a local player.
- 27youtube-viewer0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line utility for viewing YouTube videos.
- 28youtubeuploader-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line utility that uploads video files to YouTube from local disk or web.
- 29ytcast-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that casts YouTube videos to a smart TV.
- 30tcobalt0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line tool for downloading videos and songs from the internet.
- 31pysavetube0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceVideo downloader that saves videos from online platforms for offline viewing.
- 32clipcommander0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceClipboard monitor that automatically downloads videos from YouTube via a GUI wrapper.
- 33yturl0★8 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line tool that provides YouTube video information and playback.
- 34yt-watch0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line tool that searches, plays, downloads, and converts YouTube videos.
- 35tartube0★4 moliveopen sourceGraphical front-end for downloading videos from many online sources.
- 36youtubedr0★4 moliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that downloads YouTube videos for offline viewing.
- 37video-downloader-longyinstudio0★12 daysliveopen sourceDownloads videos from streaming sites like YouTube, built on yt-dlp.
- 38tubeup0★5 moliveopen sourceTool that uploads videos from YouTube and other sites to the Internet Archive.
- 39switchtube-downloader-bin0★5 moliveopen sourceCommand-line tool to download videos from SwitchTube.
- 40download-media0★5 moliveopen sourceInteractive video downloader that lets users paste links, pick formats, and manage a download history.
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.