mpv-youtube-search
Details
- External ID
- 1382506791
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- mpv-youtube-search
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 11
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33858570330514987
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- video transcription and extraction tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- youtube search integration for mpv player
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is an mpv script (typically written in Lua or JavaScript) that queries the YouTube API or yt-dlp to let users search and stream videos directly inside the media player. Writing mpv user scripts with basic API fetches is a textbook vibe-coding task.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 162 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #85 of 163 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 326 days after the earliest competitor.
- A search engine for deleted YouTube videos (1.5B+ indexed since 2005) · hn · 2026-05-09 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters · hn · 2026-04-06 · 325 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- youtube-to-video.github.io · github · 2026-09-21 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- youTUbe-FIx · github · 2026-09-15 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- HyperOnlineVideo · github · 2026-09-12 · 46 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- HyperOnlineVideo · github · 2026-09-21 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- yoUTUbeoBhod · github · 2026-09-13 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- YoutubeObhod · github · 2026-09-13 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.46
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.