chunder v0.2.0 — cover art, tags, and self-updates

What's new

🖼️ Audio files that look proper — audio downloads now automatically embed the video thumbnail as cover art plus title/artist tags (mp3 and m4a). Opt out with --no-tags.

🔄 chunder upgrade — chunder now updates itself: checks the latest release, verifies the SHA-256 checksum, and atomically swaps the binary. --check to just look. Homebrew installs are handed to brew upgrade instead.

Install

brew tap chunder-cli/tap && brew install chunder
go install github.com/chunder-cli/chunder@latest

From v0.2.0 onward: just chunder upgrade. 🤮

chunder v0.1.1 — new home: chunder-cli

chunder moved to its new organization: github.com/chunder-cli/chunder 🏠

• Go module path is now github.com/chunder-cli/chunder — go install github.com/chunder-cli/chunder@latest works against this release
• Homebrew: brew install chunder-cli/tap/chunder
• All features from v0.1.0 unchanged

Old blyncnov/chunder URLs redirect here automatically.

chunder v0.1.0 — the terminal eats YouTube

The first release of chunder — a YouTube downloader that lives entirely in your terminal. 🤮

Highlights

📺 Watch videos INSIDE your terminal — chunder watch <url> renders true-color video with half-block characters (2 pixels per cell), synced audio, pause, and ±10s seeking. No window. No browser.

🔎 Search without leaving the shell — chunder search <query> opens an interactive result browser with thumbnail previews rendered as terminal art. Enter downloads, w watches, a grabs audio.

⬇️ A downloader that's actually pleasant

• Quality selection (-q best|1080p|720p|…) with automatic ffmpeg muxing for 1080p+
• Live gradient progress bar, speed sparkline, ETA, and step checklist (Bubble Tea + Lip Gloss)
• Playlist downloads with a live queue view (--limit, --reverse)
• Clips: --from 1:23 --to 2:45 transfers only the segment's bytes
• Subtitles: --subs en saves .srt, --embed-subs muxes them into the mp4
• Audio: --audio-only for m4a, --format mp3 for mp3
• Script-friendly plain output when piped, config file + CHUNDER_* env vars, shell completions

🧭 Helpful when you're lost — missing args and typos get ready-to-paste suggestions instead of parser errors.

Install

Download a binary below for your platform, or:

go install github.com/blyncnov/chunder@latest

ffmpeg is recommended (brew install ffmpeg) — it unlocks 1080p+, clips, mp3, subtitle embedding, and watch.

Checksums & platforms

Asset	Platform
chunder_v0.1.0_darwin_arm64.tar.gz	macOS (Apple Silicon)
chunder_v0.1.0_darwin_amd64.tar.gz	macOS (Intel)
chunder_v0.1.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz	Linux (x86-64)
chunder_v0.1.0_linux_arm64.tar.gz	Linux (ARM64)
chunder_v0.1.0_windows_amd64.zip	Windows (x86-64)

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Downloading videos may violate YouTube's Terms of Service depending on the content and your jurisdiction — only download what you have the right to. MIT licensed.