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chunder v0.1.0 — the terminal eats YouTube

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@blyncnov blyncnov released this 12 Jul 13:03
v0.1.0
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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)

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.

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