You-Get

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Free to practise onyes
Free trialno
Well documentedyes
Runs where you workyes

Runs on Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Windows.

You-Get is ranked #64 of 137 in video downloaders on The Geeks Club. It runs on Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Windows. There is a free plan.

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You-Get Free MIT-licensed command-line utility; no paid plans or usage limits stated you-get.org · 12 Oct 2026

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Free plan: Yes
Supported sources: YouTube, X (Twitter), VK, Vimeo, Veoh, Tumblr, TED, SHOWROOM, MTV81, Metacafe, Magisto, Khan Academy, Internet Archive, Instagram, InfoQ, Flickr, Facebook, Dailymotion, Coub, CBS, niconico, Bilibili, iQIYI, QQ Video, Sohu, Tudou, Youku, and other listed sites
Output formats: webm, mp4, 3gp
Playlist downloads: Yes
Subtitle downloads: Yes
Batch downloads: Yes
Device platforms: macOS, Linux, Windows via WSL

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Purpose: You-Get is a command-line utility for downloading videos, audio, images, and other web content.
Video and audio: It downloads media from supported websites including YouTube, Youku, and Niconico.
Playback: It can send an online video to a chosen media player instead of downloading it.
Image scraping: It can scrape web pages for images, a feature the site describes as experimental and imperfect.
Other downloads: It can download arbitrary non-HTML binary content when given a resource URL.
Site coverage: The maker lists support for sites including YouTube, Vimeo, Tumblr, SoundCloud, Instagram, Flickr, and Bilibili, with support varying by media type.
Fallback extraction: For sites absent from its supported-sites list, the universal extractor attempts to find and download resources from the page.
Download controls: The command line supports choosing output directory and filename, using an HTTP proxy, and resuming interrupted downloads.
Dependencies: The installation page recommends Python 3.7.4 or later and FFmpeg 1.0 or later, with RTMPDump optional.
Installation: The maker documents installation through pip, GitHub, Homebrew on Mac, pkg on FreeBSD, and Flox on Mac, Linux, and Windows WSL.
Formats: Format selection is not generally implemented for most supported sites, where the default is the highest-quality format.
Data output: The tool can output extracted resource URLs or JSON, but the maker warns that the JSON schema is not stabilized and may change incompatibly.
Security and license: The software is distributed under the MIT license and provided as-is without warranty.
Support: The maker points users to a Gitter channel for quick questions and issue-reporting guidelines for problems or contributions.
Price from: Free

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you-get.org· checked 12 Oct 2026