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 · 2 ai-built · 5 hand-coded · 11 unlabelled
Operator · 1 hobby · 16 open source · 1 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 18 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 41tuitube-bin0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceTUI application for downloading videos from the command line.
- 42ytd-lkml0★9 mostaleliveopen sourceA terminal tool with a text-based interface that downloads YouTube videos by wrapping an existing command-line downloader.
- 43youtube-dl0★9 mostaleliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that downloads videos from YouTube and other video sites.
- 44ytrssil0★10 mostaleliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that subscribes to YouTube RSS feeds and tracks which videos have been watched.
- 45swc-ytdownloader-bin0★11 mostaleliveopen sourceDownloads and converts videos from YouTube and other sites with metadata.
- 46yt-snip0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that downloads and trims YouTube videos and audio.
- 47you-get0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDownloads videos from YouTube, Youku, and Niconico using a Python command-line utility.
- 48python-youtube-search-python0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourcePython library for searching YouTube videos, channels, and playlists and retrieving metadata without the official data API.
- 49ytfind0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that searches Invidious instances and returns video titles and IDs.
- 50vido0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceFrontend for youtube-dl that downloads videos and audio from various websites.
- 51youtubedl-gui0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceGraphical interface to download YouTube videos as audio or video files.
- 52dosage0★unknownlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line tool that downloads and archives daily strips from webcomic and picture-a-day websites for offline browsing.
- 53web-to-webm0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop tool that extracts webm clips from YouTube and other video-sharing websites.
- 54yt0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line tool that searches and plays YouTube videos.
- 55yttrim0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line tool that trims portions from online videos by URL.
- 56vid-dl-bin0★9 mostaleliveopen sourceCommand-line utility that downloads YouTube videos in different formats.
- 57YouTube Repeat Player0★unknownliveai-builthobbyWeb tool that lets users loop and repeat sections of YouTube videos for uninterrupted playback.
- 58Video Downloader0★unknownliveai-builtWeb tool that downloads videos from online sources for offline viewing.
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