Command line YouTube downloader,a universal media solution for everyone
Details
- External ID
- 45850685
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Command line YouTube downloader,a universal media solution for everyone
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Nov. 7, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 17
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6528384279475983
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
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
Enrichment
- Theme
- audio and video developer utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- youtube downloader for everyone
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a simple Bash CLI script wrapping yt-dlp and ffmpeg, easily generated by an AI assistant in an afternoon.
Discussion
9 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: yt-dlp frequently breaks due to Google actively blocking access methods, Requires external JavaScript runtime (Deno) for YouTube support, wav format is a bad default
Feature requests: Support for private playlists
Competitors
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Attention rank: #25 of 83 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 6 days after the earliest competitor.
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