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Yt-dlp projects on GitHub

Video downloading built on the yt-dlp command-line tool.

As of , the most-starred Yt-dlp projects on GitHub are yt-dlp (198.7K stars), Seal (29.8K stars) and karakeep (29.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 27 Yt-dlp repositories with 437K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was yt-dlp, with +398 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+398

yt-dlp

yt-dlp/yt-dlp · ★ 198.7K

yt-dlp is a feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader that supports thousands of sites, built as a fork of youtube-dl based on the inactive youtube-dlc.

+174

downvid

yxxbc/downvid · ★ 957

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.

+82

pickoo-your-favorites

KristenPan/pickoo-your-favorites · ★ 834

Pickoo! is a local-first AI favorites workbench where a connected agent automatically ingests links you paste or share (from Xiaohongshu, Douyin, Bilibili, WeChat, Xiaoyuzhou podcasts, web pages, NetEase Music) and files them into editable Markdown with a preserved evidence package.

+43

Seal

JunkFood02/Seal · ★ 29.8K

Seal is a free, open-source Android app for downloading videos and audio from any of the video platforms supported by yt-dlp.

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27 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · yt-dlp/yt-dlp

    yt-dlp

    yt-dlp is a feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader that supports thousands of sites, built as a fork of youtube-dl based on the inactive youtube-dlc.

    198.7K
  2. #2 · JunkFood02/Seal

    Seal

    Seal is a free, open-source Android app for downloading videos and audio from any of the video platforms supported by yt-dlp.

    29.8K
  3. #3 · karakeep-app/karakeep

    karakeep

    Karakeep (formerly Hoarder) is a self-hostable bookmark-everything app: save links, notes, images and PDFs, and it auto-fetches link details, tags everything with an LLM and gives you full-text and semantic search over all of it.

    29.7K
  1. 4

    spotify-downloader

    26.4KspotDL/spotify-downloader · Python

    spotDL is a command-line music downloader: hand it a Spotify playlist, album or song link and it finds matching tracks on YouTube, downloads them, and embeds album art, lyrics and metadata.

  2. 5

    VideoLingo

    18.8KHuanshere/VideoLingo · Python

    VideoLingo is an all-in-one AI tool for video translation, localization, and dubbing. It generates Netflix-quality single-line subtitles and can add high-quality dubbing, fully automated in one click.

  3. 6

    metube

    15Kalexta69/metube · Python

    MeTube is a self-hosted web UI for yt-dlp, letting you download videos, audio, captions, and thumbnails from YouTube and dozens of other sites through a browser.

  4. 7

    ani-cli

    14Kpystardust/ani-cli · Shell

    ani-cli is a command-line tool that scrapes an anime streaming site and lets you search for and play anime episodes directly from the terminal, alone or with friends via syncplay.

  5. 8

    voice-pro

    13Kabus-aikorea/voice-pro · Python

    Voice-Pro is a free, open-source AI web app (built with Gradio) that combines speech recognition, zero-shot voice cloning, text-to-speech, YouTube downloading, vocal isolation, and multilingual translation into one tool for creators and researchers.

  6. 9

    camofox-browser

    11.6Kjo-inc/camofox-browser · JavaScript

    Camofox is a stealth headless browser server for AI agents: it wraps the Camoufox engine (a C++-patched Firefox) in a REST API that bypasses Cloudflare and bot detection, acting as a drop-in replacement for Puppeteer/Playwright.

  7. 10

    VidBee

    10.9Knexmoe/VidBee · TypeScript

    A free, open-source desktop app that downloads video and audio from 1000+ sites or imports local files, transcribes them on your machine, and lets you summarize, translate, or ask questions about them with the AI provider you choose.

  8. 11

    reclip

    10.8Kaverygan/reclip · HTML

    ReClip is a self-hosted web app for downloading videos and audio: paste a link from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or any of 1000+ supported sites and save it as MP4 or MP3.

  9. 12

    ytdlnis

    10.6Kdeniscerri/ytdlnis · Kotlin

    YTDLnis is a free, open-source Android app that downloads audio and video from YouTube and many other sites using yt-dlp.

  10. 13

    ytDownloader

    10.5Kaandrew-me/ytDownloader · JavaScript

    ytDownloader is a desktop app with a graphical interface for downloading video and audio from the web — no command line needed.

  11. 14

    xiaomusic

    10Khanxi/xiaomusic · Python

    A self-hosted service that plays music on Xiaomi XiaoAI smart speakers: it serves your music library to the speaker and downloads new songs on demand with yt-dlp. You control it by voice and through a web console.

  12. 15

    autoclip

    9.5Kzhouxiaoka/autoclip · Python

    An open-source AI desktop app that turns long videos — podcasts, interviews, courses, livestreams — into share-ready short clips, auto-cutting the highlights and generating subtitles, covers and titles.

  13. 16

    cliamp

    4.5Kbjarneo/cliamp · Go

    cliamp is a retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp. It plays local files plus streams from services like YouTube, Spotify, SoundCloud, Navidrome, Jellyfin, Plex, and internet radio, all from a terminal UI.

  14. 17

    stemdeck

    4.2Kstemdeckapp/stemdeck · JavaScript

    StemDeck is a free, open-source stem separation tool: drop in a song and it splits it into isolated stems (vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, other) for practice, transcription, remixing, and other audio work — all running on your own machine.

  15. 18

    native-subtitle-quote-image

    2.7Kchengyi-ai/native-subtitle-quote-image · Python

    It is an open Agent Skill that turns real video frames into 3:4 social-media quote images: it goes from a local or authorized online video through source fetching, transcript locating, quote selection, precise frame extraction, compact collaging and per-image QA.

  16. 19

    ISpotify

    1.9KRubinLabs26/ISpotify · Python

    iSpotify is a local-first desktop app for Windows and Linux that lets you search for songs and playlists, download them as MP3s, and play your library back offline.

  17. 20

    stemkit

    1.1Kdanielravina/stemkit · TypeScript

    StemKit splits any YouTube song into isolated stems — vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano and more — running entirely on your own machine, with a mini DAW-style player to mix/mute/solo each stem.

  18. 21

    downvid

    957yxxbc/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.

  19. 22

    pickoo-your-favorites

    834KristenPan/pickoo-your-favorites · Python

    Pickoo! is a local-first AI favorites workbench where a connected agent automatically ingests links you paste or share (from Xiaohongshu, Douyin, Bilibili, WeChat, Xiaoyuzhou podcasts, web pages, NetEase Music) and files them into editable Markdown with a preserved evidence package.

  20. 23

    SCM

    486allenv0/SCM · TypeScript

    SCM (Screen Memories) is a macOS desktop app that runs deep AI search locally over every photo and every video frame in a chosen folder, letting you search by meaning, on-screen text, or spoken dialogue, all without the cloud.

  21. 24

    yapsnap

    379kouhxp/yapsnap · Python

    A command-line tool that turns any video URL or local audio/video file into a plaintext transcript, running entirely on your own CPU — no GPU, no cloud, one command.

  22. 25

    vdl

    327engatec/vdl · Java

    VDL is a cross-platform desktop application that puts a graphical interface on yt-dlp, so you can download videos from YouTube and many other supported sites without touching the command line.

  23. 26

    flick

    313Creatorberry/flick · TypeScript

    Flick is an open-source AI motion director: give it a video, a public link, or a pasted transcript, and it turns it into original short-form animations, scene by scene.

  24. 27

    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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