# pablostanley/yoinks

yoink any video from your terminal. no shady ads.

Repository: https://github.com/pablostanley/yoinks
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/yoinks
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-07-17T06:40:05+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 55/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 93, release rhythm 35, longevity 3
- inputs: {"age_days": 48, "days_push": 47, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, young
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1333, forks 132 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:24.675013+00:00)

## What it is
yoinks is a terminal-based video downloader TUI built with Ink (React for the terminal) that wraps yt-dlp to download videos from YouTube, X/Twitter, Instagram, Threads, TikTok and 1,800+ other sites. It offers an interactive format picker with resolutions and audio-only mp3 extraction, bundling yt-dlp and ffmpeg automatically so no Python or manual setup is required.

## Use cases
- download a youtube video from the terminal
- save a tiktok video without ads or sketchy sites
- extract mp3 audio from a video url
- download videos from twitter/x or instagram
- pick video resolution interactively before downloading
- batch-friendly video downloading via a simple cli command

## When to choose
- you want a clean, ad-free terminal alternative to sketchy video downloader websites
- you want yt-dlp's site coverage without installing Python or remembering yt-dlp flags
- you prefer an interactive TUI with clickable format selection over raw CLI flags
- you want automatic mp3 extraction and file saving to ~/Downloads

## When to avoid
- you need playlist or multi-video thread downloads (still on the roadmap)
- you need scriptable non-interactive flags like --best or --mp3 (not yet implemented)
- you need a GUI or browser-based downloader
- you need yt-dlp features beyond what the picker exposes, such as subtitles, cookies, or custom output templates

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: cli, video-processing, audio-processing, terminal-ui
- domain: media, developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform, windows
- tags: video-downloader, yt-dlp, tui, ink, youtube, tiktok, instagram, twitter, mp3-extraction, command-line, nodejs, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- pablostanley/yoinks (main) score 55

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:24.675013+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:44:54.398885+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pablostanley/yoinks (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:24.675013+00:00, sha a311199816d7)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/yoinks (fetched 2026-08-29T12:04:17.058194+00:00, sha 4f8f49bd09a8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.