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Yazi – terminal file manager

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

Yazi is billed as a blazingly fast TUI file manager with asynchronous support. It’s written in Rust.

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YouTube

pytubefix – library and CLI for downloading YouTube videos

January 25, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

pytubefix is a lightweight, Pythonic, dependency-free, library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos.

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YouTube

YTerMusic – YouTube Music Client

January 25, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

YTerMusic is a terminal based YouTube Music Player. It aims to be as fast and simple as possible.

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YouTube

YouTube TUI – lightweight and user friendly TUI for browsing YouTube

January 25, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

YouTube TUI is a lightweight and user friendly TUI frontend for browsing YouTube content from the terminal. It uses other software such as mpv and yt-dlp.

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Music sketch

RMuP – TUI music player

January 23, 2024 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

Rusty Music Player (RMuP) is a TUI music player. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.

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Git Clients

lazygit – simple terminal UI for git commands

January 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

lazygit is a simple but effective terminal user interface for git command.

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Surya – multilingual document OCR toolkit

January 14, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Reviews

Surya is billed as a multilingual document OCR toolkit. It’s written in Python and published under an open source license.

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YouTube

pipe-viewer – lightweight YouTube client

January 8, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

pipe-viewer is a lightweight YouTube client for Linux, without requiring an API key. It’s free and open source software.

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Internet

peerflix – streaming torrent client

December 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

peerflix is a streaming torrent client for node.js.

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Internet

rTorrent – BitTorrent Client

December 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

rTorrent is a BitTorrent client which provides a terminal-based user interface via the ncurses programming library.

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jdrivesync – sync with Google Drive

December 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

jdrivesync is a simple command line tool that synchronizes a local file system structure to your Google Drive (and back).

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Internet

Transmission – BitTorrent Client

December 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Transmission is a fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client with an easy-to-use interface on top of a cross-platform backend.

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Internet

Deluge – cross-platform ​BitTorrent client

December 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Deluge is a lightweight, cross-platform BitTorrent client. It uses libtorrent at its core to handle the BitTorrent protocol.

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Music

kew – command-line music player

November 26, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

kew is a music player with gapless playback. It’s written in C and published under an open source license. It was previously called cue. I review the latest release.

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Monitor System

ttop – system monitoring tool

November 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

ttop is a system monitoring tool with historical snapshots and alerts. It has a top-like TUI. It’s written in Nim.

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Terminal Session Recording

screencast – record and stream an X11 desktop

November 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

screencast records X11 desktops with FFmpeg, offering region selection, live streaming, hardware encoding, audio and webcam overlays.

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Terminal Session Recording

ffscreencast – shell wrapper for FFmpeg screen recording

November 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

ffscreencast simplifies FFmpeg screen recording with automatic device discovery, audio capture, webcam overlay and command generation.

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Graphics

UniConvertor – universal vector graphics translator

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

UniConvertor is a multiplatform universal vector graphics translator. It’s a command line tool which uses sK1 object model to convert one format to another.

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Utility

Surfraw – Shell Users’ Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web

November 13, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Surfraw (Shell Users’ Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web) provides a command line interface to a variety of popular Web search engines and sites.

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Utility

Newsbeuter – RSS/Atom feed reader

November 13, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Newsbeuter is an innovative RSS feed reader for the text console.It supports OPML import/exports, HTML rendering, podcast (podbeuter), and more.

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