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Media-downloader projects on GitHub

Apps for downloading video and audio from online media platforms.

As of , the most-starred Media-downloader projects on GitHub are cobalt (45.1K stars), lux (31.8K stars) and cat-catch (22.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 9 Media-downloader repositories with 144.3K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was cobalt, with +37 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17

+37

cobalt

imputnet/cobalt · ★ 45.1K

cobalt is a media downloader with no ads, trackers, or paywalls: you paste a link to a video or song, get the file, and move on.

+20

res-downloader

putyy/res-downloader · ★ 20.7K

A free cross-platform desktop app that sniffs and downloads videos, audio, images, m3u8 streams and live streams from Chinese platforms like WeChat Video, Douyin, Kuaishou, Xiaohongshu, Kugou and QQ Music.

+20

downvid

Downvid/downvid · ★ 1K

DownVid is a modern, cross-platform open-source desktop app for downloading videos and audio from YouTube, Bilibili, Douyin, TikTok and 1000+ other sites, without watermarks or ads.

+17

yoinks

pablostanley/yoinks · ★ 6K

yoinks is a terminal tool that downloads videos from YouTube, X/Twitter, Instagram, Threads, TikTok and 1,800+ other sites — just paste a url and pick a resolution or audio-only mp3.

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9 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · imputnet/cobalt

    cobalt

    cobalt is a media downloader with no ads, trackers, or paywalls: you paste a link to a video or song, get the file, and move on.

    45.1K
  2. #2 · iawia002/lux

    lux

    Lux is a fast and simple video downloader built with Go — a CLI tool that grabs videos, images and audio from sites like YouTube, bilibili, Douyin, Youku and iQiyi.

    31.8K
  3. #3 · xifangczy/cat-catch

    cat-catch

    cat-catch ('Cat Catch') is a browser extension that sniffs out the resources a page loads, filters them into a list, and helps you download media such as m3u8 video streams.

    22.3K
  1. 4

    res-downloader

    20.7Kputyy/res-downloader · Go

    A free cross-platform desktop app that sniffs and downloads videos, audio, images, m3u8 streams and live streams from Chinese platforms like WeChat Video, Douyin, Kuaishou, Xiaohongshu, Kugou and QQ Music.

  2. 5

    TikTokDownloader

    16.9KJoeanAmier/TikTokDownloader · JavaScript

    DouK-Downloader (formerly TikTokDownloader) is a tool for downloading videos, images and live streams from Douyin (Chinese TikTok) and TikTok, and for collecting platform data such as account details, comments and search results.

  3. 6

    yoinks

    6Kpablostanley/yoinks · TypeScript

    yoinks is a terminal tool that downloads videos from YouTube, X/Twitter, Instagram, Threads, TikTok and 1,800+ other sites — just paste a url and pick a resolution or audio-only mp3.

  4. 7

    downvid

    1KDownvid/downvid · TypeScript

    DownVid is a modern, cross-platform open-source desktop app for downloading videos and audio from YouTube, Bilibili, Douyin, TikTok and 1000+ other sites, without watermarks or ads.

  5. 8

    streamfirefly

    286rumoii/streamfirefly · JavaScript

    StreamFirefly (流萤) is a local-first tool for finding and downloading media on web pages. A browser extension detects videos, audio, images and HLS/DASH manifests, while a Rust-based Windows native helper handles the actual downloading, queuing, resuming and FFmpeg merging; tasks and settings stay on your machine.

  6. 9

    linksift

    123loveisbl1nd/linksift · Python

    LinkSift is a local-first, self-hosted web app that lets you paste any yt-dlp-supported URL, inspect its metadata, and queue it for download as MP4 video or MP3 audio using ffmpeg.

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