xytz is a terminal frontend for yt-dlp, written in Go using Bubble Tea. It brings content discovery, format selection, and download management into an interactive interface, while accepting direct URLs from other sites supported by its download engine.
The application uses ffmpeg for media processing. Optional playback uses mpv, with ffplay available as a fallback, so selected content can be watched without first completing a download.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Search YouTube videos and channels, with configurable result limits and sorting.
- Browse a channel by its username or open a playlist by its identifier.
- Choose video and audio formats using displayed quality information.
- Select several videos for batch downloading and resume unfinished downloads.
- Save videos to a watch-later list.
- Display inline thumbnail previews using supported terminal image protocols, with a character-based fallback.
- Keep persistent search history for returning to earlier queries.
- Load authentication cookies from a browser or an exported cookie file.
- Configure output directories, preferred quality, audio and video formats, and metadata embedding.
- Optionally embed subtitles, chapters, and thumbnails in downloaded media.
- Process Spotify track and album links, including multi-disc albums, metadata tags, cover artwork, and optional lyric files.
- Change themes while running and customise settings through a YAML configuration file.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/xdagiz/xytz
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Developer: Dagmawi Ali
License: MIT License
xytz is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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