Command line YouTube downloader,a universal media solution for everyone
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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
HN · launched Nov 7, 2025 · 17 upvotes (top 35%) · 0 views
Niche: video and media downloaders · 189 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -54% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 189 launches in video and media downloaders →
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
Other products that read as similar to this one : 210 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #48 of 211 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 6 days after the earliest competitor.
- universal-downloader · github · 2026-10-18 · 48 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- YTMP3 Media Downloader · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- ClickMate · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Yt-x v0.8.0 · hn · 2026-05-19 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- AVS Download Manager · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- mc-download-manager · github · 2026-10-10 · 149 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- SUZA Download Manager · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- yt-dlp.dev · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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