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    iawia002/lux

    👾 Fast and simple video download library and CLI tool written in Go

    automation
    bilibili
    crawler
    download
    downloader
    go
    Go
    MIT
    31.8K stars
    3.3K forks
    380 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 6, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 914 days ago, with 107 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #58 in the weekly ranking the week of Apr 19, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a fast and simple command-line tool and library for downloading videos from multiple streaming platforms using Go.
    • Supports a wide range of popular video sites and formats with multi-threaded downloads and resume capability for interrupted downloads.
    • Use for downloading single videos or playlists from sites like YouTube, Bilibili, and IQiyi with selectable quality streams.
    • Use for batch downloading multiple URLs or reading URLs from a file to automate video collection workflows.
    • Use for integrating video download functionality into Go applications requiring programmatic access to video streams and metadata.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

    Watch-outs

    • No commits in the last six months (last push Mar 2026).

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    From the README

    Let there be Lux!

    👾 Lux is a fast and simple video downloader built with Go.

    The following dependencies are required and must be installed separately.

    Note: FFmpeg does not affect the download, only affects the final file merge.

    Excerpt from the iawia002/lux README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    3.3K+12

    Open issues

    545+0

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