Yt-x v0.8.0
Browse, play, and download YouTube from the terminal
Details
- External ID
- 48198425
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Yt-x v0.8.0
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 19, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 27
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7859450726978998
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- audio and video developer utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- terminal youtube client
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a terminal UI (TUI) tool wrapping yt-dlp/ffmpeg and mpv to search, stream, and download YouTube media.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: contentflow
Concerns raised: MCPs are a mistake and should be CLIs instead, YouTube API limitations/avoiding API requirements
Feature requests: Add dump command for JSON output instead of menu display, Enable LLM to search YouTube via terminal
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 306 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #57 of 307 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 196 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Stremio_CLI · github · 2026-09-22 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- I Built a Tool to Turn YouTube into Structured Courses · hn · 2025-12-29 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- A search engine for deleted YouTube videos (1.5B+ indexed since 2005) · hn · 2026-05-09 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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