# soimort/you-get

:arrow_double_down: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

Repository: https://github.com/soimort/you-get
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/you-get
Homepage: https://you-get.org/
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-08-24T07:23:27+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5126, "days_push": 9, "days_rel": 607, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 56871, forks 9698 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:18.493142+00:00)

## What it is
You-Get is a tiny command-line utility written in Python to download media content (videos, audios, images) from the web when no other handy way exists. It supports many popular sites like YouTube, Youku, and Niconico, and can also stream online videos directly into a media player.

## Use cases
- download a youtube video from the command line
- save videos from youku or niconico
- scrape images from a web page
- stream an online video into a local media player without a browser
- download arbitrary binary files from a url
- extract subtitles alongside a video

## When to choose
- you need a lightweight, scriptable downloader for many video sites
- you want to avoid proprietary JavaScript/Flash and browser-based downloading
- you want to pipe online video straight into a media player
- you prefer a simple pip-installable Python tool

## When to avoid
- you need a GUI downloader
- you need robust, actively maintained site extractors for modern YouTube - yt-dlp is generally more current
- you need bulk playlist management or advanced post-processing features
- your target site requires authenticated or DRM-protected streams

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, video-processing, cli, http-client
- domain: media, crawlers, developer-tools
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform, windows
- tags: video-downloader, media-downloader, youtube-dl-alternative, streaming, ffmpeg, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- soimort/you-get (main) score 67

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:18.493142+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 2026-08-29T16:18:40.668134+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/soimort/you-get (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:18.493142+00:00, sha f2c7a2a1b98b)
  - homepage: https://you-get.org/ (fetched 2026-08-28T18:03:45.864161+00:00, sha b91120219152)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.