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Yt-x v0.8.0

Browse, play, and download YouTube from the terminal

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HN · launched May 19, 2026 · 27 upvotes (top 21%) · 0 views

Niche: streaming media players and tools · 616 launches, 349 in the last 7 days ▲ +1026% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Media & entertainment
  • Dev tools
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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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 : 870 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #168 of 871 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 196 days after the earliest competitor.

  • YST-rpocket · github · 2026-11-05 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • pluck · github · 2026-10-08 · 121 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • OmniGrab · github · 2026-10-22 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • X Downloader · hn · 2026-07-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • tubefast · github · 2026-10-07 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • universal-downloader · github · 2026-10-18 · 48 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • YTubeGo · ph · 2026-10-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • MediaFetch · github · 2026-10-19 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.50

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