Top YOUTUBE-DL GitHub Repositories & Tools (2026)

A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

Free, open source video downloader for Windows, macOS and Linux that AI agents can drive. Downloads from YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, Reddit, torrents and the sites yt-dlp supports. Its MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor and Codex queue downloads, and it runs Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and Ollama as agents.

🦭 Video/Audio Downloader for Android, based on yt-dlp

Desktop app to download audio/video from hundreds of sites

⬇️ A simple all-in-one CLI tool to download EVERYTHING from a URL (like youtube-dl/yt-dlp, forum-dl, gallery-dl, simpler ArchiveBox). 🎭 Uses headless Chrome to get HTML, JS, CSS, images/video/audio/subtitles, PDFs, screenshots, article text, git repos, and more...

Social Downloader is a single-page React app built around one idea: one field should be enough. Drop in a YouTube link, an Instagram reel, a Pinterest pin, or just plain search words, and the app detects the platform automatically and resolves the original file: video, audio, or image, with no account, no queue, and no watermark tax.