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24 alternatives to ytcast – cast YouTube videos to your smart TV from command-line

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 :)…

ytcast is a command-line tool written in Go that casts YouTube videos to smart TVs. Designed for users who prefer terminal-based workflows, it allows video streaming to be initiated directly from the command line… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. ytcast – cast YouTube videos to your smart TV from command-line launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hey HN, I've been working on this side project for the past month. It generates a step-by-step tutorial guide for YouTube videos that you can follow along without watching long videos. Best suited for tutorial videos but can work for other videos aswell. No BS. Just straight to the point. The guides are generated from pure transcript so you don't have to worry about it being AI. It's my first project as a total beginner. Something I had to do inorder to get out of tutorial hell. Please let me know if you have any suggestions or if you face any problems or bugs. I would try to fix them to the…

    2024 · stepify.tech · its alternatives →

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    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 →

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    A self contained OBS -> FTL -> WebRTC live streaming server. Comprised of 3 parts once configured anyone can achieve sub-second OBS to the browser livestreaming - GRVYDEV/Project-Lightspeed

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone, I recently published a small open-source project. It’s a minimal network packet analyzer written in Go — designed more like a learning toy than a replacement for Wireshark. It currently supports parsing basic protocols like TLS, DNS, and HTTP, and includes a tiny fuzzing engine to test payload responses. You can inspect raw packet content directly from the terminal. The output is colored for readability, and the code structure is kept simple and clear. The entire program is very small — just about 400 lines of Go code. I know it’s not anywhere near Wireshark’s level, and I still…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Yout▲250

    Record any YouTube video into an Mp3 or Mp4

    2015 · yout.com · its alternatives →

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    Cai▲179

    Hi HN, Cai runs actions on your selection via ⌥C, pick an action (AI, shell, GitHub issue, Linear ticket), done. Bundled local model (MLX Community), create custom actions with prompts, scripts and more. Free, MIT. Built after my Raycast extension sat in review queue for 3+ months. Wanted no typing, no app switching, no cloud. Repo: https://github.com/cai-layer/cai Demo: https://youtu.be/LH2MYNQ_wsk

    Apr 2026 · getcai.app · its alternatives →

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    FFmpeg wrapper providing simple, cross-platform Video I/O, GIF Creation, and Webcam Streaming in Go - AlexEidt/Vidio

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi, I'm Alex. I created Eightify to take my mind off things during a weekend, but I was surprised that my friends were genuinely interested in it. I kept going, and now it's been nine weeks since I started. I got the idea to summarize videos when my friend sent me a lengthy video again. This happens to me often; the video title is so enticing, and then it turns out to be nothing. I had been working with GPT for 6 months by the time, so everything looked like a nail to me. It's a Chrome extension, and I'm offering 5 free tries for videos under an hour. After that, you have to buy a package.…

    2023 · eightify.app · its alternatives →

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    This is a small project i made years ago and updated to whisper last year, i still use it from time to time and thought it might be useful to others, or just put the idea out there for someone better than me to make a better implementation!

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Lack of yt-dlp+ffmpeg and screenshots' limited size on my mobile phone prompted me to build a simple tool to download pictures from YouTube videos. Check it out. hope you guys find it useful

    2024 · ytpics.com · its alternatives →

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    Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API. Contribute to pion/webrtc development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I just published v0.1.0 of go-bt and would love some feedback from the Go veterans here. Thanks in advance!

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I’m so excited to show my first open-source project and first post here. I initially started this project to learn Go language, it is an experimental project. The main goal is to track the adventure of a WebRTC stream from start to finish, by debugging the project or tracking the output at console. By trying out this project, you will deep dive into the steps which are taken while starting up a WebRTC session, and more. It consists of a web UI (TypeScript) and a server back-end (Golang) projects. They can run on Docker containers, in development mode or production mode, you can find…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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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 →

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    Snap any video URL or audio file into plaintext. No GPU. No cloud. One command. - kouhxp/yapsnap

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, my name is Ben, and I am an indie dev from Nigeria and I made YT2Medium – a simple tool that transforms YouTube video transcripts into readable Medium-style articles using AI. It’s for creators, bloggers, or anyone who wants to repurpose video content quickly without writing from scratch. Just launched it and figured I'd share here. Also open to selling it if someone wants to take it further. Would love your thoughts! — Ben

    2025 · yt2medium.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Get youtube video download url. Contribute to maple3142/ytdl development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    YouTube download library and CLI written in Go. Contribute to rylio/ytdl development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi All, I felt like I was re-inventing the wheel by bolting similar channel architectures onto different Go structs repeatedly so I decided to extract some common types into into one library so that they would be easier to re-use: - oneshot - spsc - spmc - mpsc - mpmc - broadcast - watch The types are inspired by Rust channels so if you're coming from Rust they should feel familiar. So far I'm really enjoying using them but it'd be great to get some external feedback if you have time! https://github.com/amorey/gochan Andres

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! I’m a bachelors student pursuing Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Signal processing and during the year I had the goal to build my first AI Tool and launch it. I got inspired by how capable Whisper is, and combined the Whisper CPP Bindings along with FFMPEG.Wasm to create a tool that is capable of transcribing and captioning video files that contain one or more video tracks. Along with that, I’ve also added the support for transcribing audio files with the option to export those outputs as .SRT, .WebVTT or simply a text file. All done privately on a user’s web browser with…

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    YT-P▲11

    Rejected by Y Combinator. So I Launched My SaaS Anyway.

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Live demo here: http://fonctionlabs.com:8000 Similarly to aka_sh (guess we were working parallelly on similar topics), I created with my brother a chainlit-based webapp, which summarizes Youtube videos in order to gain time. It works as an RAG-based LLM, and is very light in the sense that it does not use RAG libraries like langchain or llamaindex. You can use it with your own OpenAI API key. It also supports local models like Mistral, or Llamma. It is ofc open-source, and you can deploy with Docker if you choose. Some of the next steps are: - using whisper to be able to compute a…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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