Command line YouTube downloader,a universal media solution for everyone
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
Command line YouTube downloader,a universal media solution for everyone launched on November 7, 2025 with 17 votes, #675 of 9,796 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
In plain words
m2m is a command line bash application that downloads videos and playlists from YouTube, Dailymotion, and other platforms supported by yt-dlp. It is designed for users who prefer working in the terminal and need a straightforward way to save video content locally. The tool handles both single videos and entire playlists through simple command line commands.
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From the sources
A minimal bash tool to convert video files to any other supported media files using yt-dlp and ffmpeg. - Saffron-sh/m2m
A minimal bash tool to convert YouTube video files to any other supported media files. m2m " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYI489Dc4Sc " outputfile.mp3 If no name is provided, the video will be downloaded in WAV format with its youtube name m2m -m 5 You can change the 5 to the number of files you want to download. (Or you can set is as n if you want it to run infinitely until you type done as the url.) It would prompt you for the URL and then for the name you want to save the file as m2m -m 2 Enter the URL: https://youtu.be/3JZ_D3ELwOQ Enter the name to save it as: song_one.wav Enter the URL: https://youtu.be/L_jWHffIx5E Enter the name to save it as: song_two.mkv [ * ] Initiating download…from github.com
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