8 alternatives to lux
iawia002/lux — 👾 Fast and simple video download library and CLI tool written in Go (31,827 stars, MIT, integration).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 69 licence-cleared components from iawia002/lux itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ytdl-org/youtube-dl | 5.2 | Unlicense | 141,450 |
| 2 | charmbracelet/vhs | 6.9 | MIT | 21,201 |
| 3 | gocolly/colly | 6.8 | Apache-2.0 | 25,573 |
| 4 | evil0ctal/douyin_tiktok_download_api | 6.8 | Apache-2.0 | 20,809 |
| 5 | yt-dlp/yt-dlp | 5.3 | Unlicense | 204,992 |
| 6 | tyrrrz/youtubedownloader | 4.7 | MIT | 16,628 |
| 7 | geziyor/geziyor | 4.3 | MPL-2.0 | 2,782 |
| 8 | wanghaisheng/easy-uploader | 5.1 | MIT | 387 |
The alternatives in detail
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Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sitesscore 5.2/10 · Unlicense permissive · 141,450 stars · 866 components · search them
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Your CLI home video recorder 📼score 6.9/10 · MIT permissive · 21,201 stars · 24 components · search them
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Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golangscore 6.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 25,573 stars · 43 components · search them
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🚀 自托管的抖音、TikTok、B 站数据采集与无水印视频下载 API,支持 AI agent 通过 MCP 调用与离线语音转文字,Docker 一键部署。| Self-hosted TikTok, Douyin & Bilibili scraper and no-watermark video downloader — async REST API, MCP server for AI agents, CLI and web consscore 6.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 20,809 stars · 344 components · search them
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A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloaderscore 5.3/10 · Unlicense permissive · 204,992 stars · 1,053 components · search them
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Downloads videos and playlists from YouTubescore 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 16,628 stars · 53 components · search them
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Geziyor, blazing fast web crawling & scraping framework for Go. Supports JS rendering.score 4.3/10 · MPL-2.0 weak-copyleft · 2,782 stars · 23 components · search them
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Schedule and Publish contents erverywhere.Bulk auto video upload and Scheduling & Publishing Effortless for You & Your Entire Team. batch headless upload all major social networks using this ultimate social media scheduscore 5.1/10 · MIT permissive · 387 stars · 83 components · search them
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