Innovative developers have created applications that allow you to bypass the web-only barrier of YouTube. We recommend the best tools.
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Tag: YouTube
youtube-local – browser-based YouTube client
youtube-local is a browser-based client written in Python for watching YouTube anonymously.
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SpMp – YouTube music client with a focus on customization
SpMp is billed as a YouTube Music client with a focus on customisation of colours and song metadata.
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PlasmaTube – client to watch YouTube videos
PlasmaTube lets used watch YouTube videos on a phone or desktop using a elegant user interface.
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AudioTube – stream music from YouTube
AudioTube is software which lets you search and listen to YouTube Music without needing a web browser.
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10 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based YouTube Tools
Funky developers have created applications that allow you to bypass the web-only barrier of YouTube. Here’s our recommended terminal-based YouTube tools.
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Lux – download library and CLI tool
Lux is an open source downloader. It supports sites such as YouTube, Tumblr, Vimeo, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and more.
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pytubefix – library and CLI for downloading YouTube videos
pytubefix is a lightweight, Pythonic, dependency-free, library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos.
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YTerMusic – YouTube Music Client
YTerMusic is a terminal based YouTube Music Player. It aims to be as fast and simple as possible.
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YouTube TUI – lightweight and user friendly TUI for browsing YouTube
YouTube TUI is a lightweight and user friendly TUI frontend for browsing YouTube content from the terminal. It uses other software such as mpv and yt-dlp.
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ClipGrab – downloader for YouTube and other sites
ClipGrab is billed as a fast Qt-based standalone tool for downloading videos from YouTube and other streaming websites.
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FreeTube – privacy-based YouTube app
FreeTube is a cross-platform, free and open source YouTube client built around using YouTube more privately.
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Piped – frontend for YouTube
Piped is an alternative frontend for YouTube which aims to be efficient by design.
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Video Downloader – frontend for yt-dlp
Video Downloader is a tool which lets you download videos from YouTube and other websites.
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Media Downloader – frontend to multiple CLI-based tools
Media Downloader is a Qt/C++ based GUI frontend to multiple CLI-based tools that deal with downloading online media.
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