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    yoink any video from your terminal. no shady ads.

    cli
    TypeScript
    MIT
    6.1K stars
    522 forks
    6.1K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 23, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    Ranks #146 of 2,794 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 5%).

    The project lists 1 contributor on GitHub.

    Peaked at #18 in the weekly ranking the week of Oct 11, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Downloads videos from over 1,800 websites directly via the terminal with a simple URL input and format selection.
    • Eliminates ads, popups, and redirects by bundling yt-dlp and ffmpeg, providing a clean, terminal-based video downloading experience.
    • Use for quickly saving videos or audio from social media platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram without leaving the terminal.
    • Use for integrating video downloads into automated scripts or workflows by leveraging its planned scriptable mode and flags.
    • Use for developers or power users who prefer a keyboard and mouse-friendly terminal UI for managing video downloads efficiently.

    Should you depend on it?

    License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.

    License

    MIT

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

    Community files

    • README: present

    Watch-outs

    • Owned by an individual account with a single contributor on GitHub; plan for bus-factor risk.
    • No GitHub releases; pin a commit or tag instead of a release.

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    From the README

    yoink any video. paste. yoink. done.

    Download videos from YouTube, X/Twitter, Instagram, Threads, TikTok and 1,800+ other sites — right from your terminal. Paste a url, pick a resolution (or audio-only mp3), done. No popups, no fake download buttons, no sketchy redirects.

    Requires Node 18+. Everything else (yt-dlp, ffmpeg) is fetched or bundled automatically.

    yoinks takes over the terminal (full-screen, centered — and restores your scrollback on exit). Pick a format with ↑/↓ (or j/k, or number keys) and hit enter. esc goes back, ^c quits. Or just use the mouse — the yoink button, the format list and the footer hints are all clickable, and clicking the logo takes you back home. Files are saved to ~/Downloads, and the file path is printed to your terminal when you're done.

    The default auto theme uses your terminal's own foreground and background, so it follows light and dark terminal themes without guessing. Press ^t or click the theme control in the footer to cycle through auto, light, and dark for the current session. Use --theme auto, --theme light, or --theme dark to choose the starting theme for one launch.

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

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Oct 2: +583Oct 3: +404Oct 4: +522Oct 5: +295Oct 6: +212Oct 7: +235Oct 8: +282Oct 9: +287Oct 10: +71Oct 11: +52Oct 12: +29Oct 13: +45Oct 14: +53Oct 15: +27Oct 16: +64Oct 17: +25Oct 18: +13Oct 19: +19Oct 20: +19Oct 21: +51Oct 22: +43Oct 23: +20

    +3,351 stars over 22 days across 23 snapshot days; best day +583 on Oct 2.

    Forks

    522+255

    Open issues

    34+15

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