CLUSTER TERMINAL-VIDEOS-YOUTUBE · 12 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2023-09-16
Terminal video clients
A cluster of terminal-based clients that let users search, browse, and play online videos from the command line, primarily targeting YouTube with a few dedicated to Bilibili or Pornhub. Dated entries begin with a single product in 2016-01, then a long hiatus until 2023-08, followed by sporadic releases through 2026-06 with a minor peak of three in 2026-01. Traction leaders all show 0 stars, so no clear engagement leader emerges.
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 · 12 unlabelled
Operator · 12 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 12 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01nstream0★13 daysliveopen sourceTerminal-first media streaming client for browsing and playing video content from pluggable sources.
- 02ytsurf0★2 moliveopen sourceA terminal application that lets users search and watch YouTube videos directly from the command line.
- 03bilibili-tui0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal user interface for browsing and watching videos from Bilibili, allowing users to search and stream content.
- 04bilibili-tui-bin0★3 moliveopen sourceTerminal user interface for browsing and watching videos from Bilibili, allowing users to search and stream content.
- 05yewtube0★4 moliveopen sourceA terminal-based media player that lets users search, stream, and download YouTube videos and playlists without a graphical interface.
- 06ytcui0★1 moliveopen sourceA lightweight terminal client for browsing and playing YouTube videos without a graphical interface.
- 07yt-x0★4 moliveopen sourceA terminal application that lets users search, browse, and play YouTube videos directly from the command line.
- 08xonitube0★5 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based video player that downloads, plays, and automatically deletes YouTube content on low-resource computers.
- 09gophertube0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceMinimal terminal client for searching and watching YouTube videos.
- 10phub-cli0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal-based video browser that streams videos directly from Pornhub.
- 11terminal-yt-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal application for managing YouTube subscriptions and watching videos from the command line.
- 12youtty0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceAllows searching, downloading, and watching YouTube videos from a terminal.
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.