Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to yt-x
browse youtube from your terminal
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. yt-x launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Posix script to browse youtube plus other yt-dlp supported sites from your terminal (fzf) or app launcher (rofi) with optional previews. (supports bash, zsh and dash) - Benexl/yt-x
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 2YF
yt-fts is a simple python script that uses yt-dlp to scrape all of a youtube channels subtitles and load them into an sqlite database that is searchable from the command line. It allows you to query a channel for specific key word or phrase and will generate time stamped youtube urls to the video containing the keyword.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 3BA
2018 · brow.sh · its alternatives →
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- 5SG
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 7AP
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 8BA
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 12YC
hi, this is a project I've been working on and off for the last three months, it's my first non-trivial, non-hello-world, actually useful (at least to me) go project. it would be very nice if you could just try the program and see if it works on your setup! the readme[0] explains how it works, why I wrote it and how it fits in my "command-line centric" computing environment (there is also a video demo[1] :)). if you know go, feel free to take a look at the code and review it! I'm still pretty much new to go and I'd love to hear opinions, feedback and tips from more seasoned go developers :)…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 13TP
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 14TB
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Use ChatGPT to summarize YouTube videos with Syllaby
2024 · its alternatives →
- 16YD
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 19SY
test $# -gt 0||exec echo usage: echo youtube-url\|$0 fmt \[saveas\];b=$(exec sed 's/http:/https:/; s/m.youtube/www.youtube/;s/youtu.be./www.youtube.com\/watch?v=/;s/hooktube.com/youtube.com/;s/embed./watch?v=/;#etc.;s/?version.//;s/;.//;');echo source url: $b;c=${b##=};a=$(ftp -4o/dev/stdout $b|exec grep -o "https%3A%2F%2Fr[0-9][a-zA-Z0-9.%_-]*"|exec sed…
2019 · its alternatives →
- 20TS
2014 · nutty.io · its alternatives →
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- 22TB
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 24CL
m2m, a purely command line bash application which allows you to download any video or playlist off of youtube dailymotion and pretty much anything yt-dlp supports
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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