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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.

#RepoScoreLicenceStars
1ytdl-org/youtube-dl5.2Unlicense141,450
2charmbracelet/vhs6.9MIT21,201
3gocolly/colly6.8Apache-2.025,573
4evil0ctal/douyin_tiktok_download_api6.8Apache-2.020,809
5yt-dlp/yt-dlp5.3Unlicense204,992
6tyrrrz/youtubedownloader4.7MIT16,628
7geziyor/geziyor4.3MPL-2.02,782
8wanghaisheng/easy-uploader5.1MIT387

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