# pablostanley/yoinks

> 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.

- Magnitude: 5.3 out of 10 — Breakout
- Stars: 2,652 total · +163 stars today, ≈ 302 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: TypeScript · License: MIT · Created: 2026-07-16 · Last push: 2026-07-17
- GitHub: https://github.com/pablostanley/yoinks · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/pablostanley/yoinks

## 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.

## Why it’s here

- 163 stars so far today, about 302 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 9 per day, so that's 35× as much.
- Over the last two days the pace is 69× 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 43 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 247
- Issues and pull requests: 25
- Watchers: 19
- Average over the last week: 148 per day
- Usual pace: 9 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 48

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-02 … 2026-10-01: 4, 205, 108, 12, 8, 6, 7, 9, 7, 2, 6, 8, 3, 2, 6, 6, 7, 4, 5, 5, 4, 2, 5, 4, 8, 6, 6, 312, 396, 163

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending today: #12, +356 stars
- GitHub Trending TypeScript today: #6, +356 stars

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-01 13:52 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.