9 alternatives to youtube-dl
ytdl-org/youtube-dl — Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites (141,450 stars, Unlicense, integration, scraping, files).
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 866 licence-cleared components from ytdl-org/youtube-dl itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yt-dlp/yt-dlp | 5.4 | Unlicense | 204,992 |
| 2 | iawia002/lux | 4.8 | MIT | 31,827 |
| 3 | kkdai/youtube | 4.7 | MIT | 3,943 |
| 4 | mansuf/mangadex-downloader | 4.6 | MIT | 939 |
| 5 | heartleo/zlib | 5.3 | MIT | 1,507 |
| 6 | glomatico/votify | 5.9 | MIT | 946 |
| 7 | aschey/stream-download-rs | 5.0 | Apache-2.0 | 116 |
| 8 | nexmoe/vidbee | 4.8 | MIT | 11,072 |
| 9 | heygen-com/heygen-cli | 4.8 | Apache-2.0 | 171 |
The alternatives in detail
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A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
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👾 Fast and simple video download library and CLI tool written in Goscore 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 31,827 stars · 69 components · search them
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Download Youtube Video in Golangscore 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 3,943 stars · 28 components · search them
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A command-line tool to download manga from MangaDex, written in Python.score 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 939 stars · 63 components · search them
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A command-line tool for Z-Library. Search, download, send to Kindle, and integrate with AI agents.score 5.3/10 · MIT permissive · 1,507 stars · 87 components · search them
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A command-line app for downloading songs, podcasts and videos from Spotify.score 5.9/10 · MIT permissive · 946 stars · 30 components · search them
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A Rust library for streaming audio, video, and other contentscore 5.0/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 116 stars · 20 components · search them
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Download video and audio from 1000+ sites, transcribe locally with speaker labels, and summarize, translate, or chat with your media using your preferred AI provider.score 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 11,072 stars · 779 components · search them
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Create AI videos from the terminal. Official CLI for the HeyGen video generation API.score 4.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 171 stars · 68 components · search them
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