pablostanley/yoinks
yoink any video from your terminal. no shady ads.
About the project
CLI video downloader for YouTube, X/Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and 1,800+ other sites: paste a URL in the terminal, pick a format or mp3, and get the file with no ads or fake buttons. Built on yt-dlp and ffmpeg, which are fetched or bundled automatically, with an Ink (React for the terminal) UI.
Useful for
- CLI video downloader for YouTube, X/Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and 1,800+ other sites: paste a URL in the terminal, pick a format or mp3, and get the file with no ads or fake buttons.
- Built on yt-dlp and ffmpeg, which are fetched or bundled automatically, with an Ink (React for the terminal) UI.
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 122 stars so far today, about 262 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 9 per day, so that's 30× as much.
- Over the last two days the pace is 65× that of the previous week and a half.
- The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- GitHub Trending today: #12, +356 stars.
- GitHub Trending TypeScript today: #6, +356 stars.
- About 47 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 2,612
- Today
- 122 · ≈ 262 by evening
- Forks
- 246
- Issues and pull requests
- 25
- Watchers
- 19
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
- Created
- July 16, 2026
- Last push
- July 17, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Spotted in
- October 1, 2026GitHub Trending today: #12, +356 stars; GitHub Trending TypeScript today: #6, +356 stars
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