25 open-source YouTube projects

YouTube (Alternative Frontends): open-source projects that exist because someone reverse engineered a closed product, sorted by GitHub stars.

1. ytfzf★ 4,162 · slowing · Shell

   POSIX script to search and play YouTube videos without an API key

2. yattee★ 3,771 · active · Swift

   YouTube frontend for iOS, tvOS and macOS built on Invidious and Piped

3. SkyTube★ 2,803 · active · Java

   Open-source YouTube app for Android using NewPipeExtractor

4. ViewTube★ 1,475 · active · TypeScript

   Privacy-friendly YouTube frontend that scrapes YouTube directly

5. youtube-viewer★ 1,320 · active · Perl

   Lightweight YouTube client for Linux (CLI and GTK)

6. Materialious★ 1,227 · active · TypeScript

   Material Design YouTube client built on the Invidious API

7. Beatbump★ 1,129 · archived · TypeScript

   Alternative YouTube Music frontend in SvelteKit using the internal API

8. my-yt★ 1,071 · active · JavaScript

   Clean, minimal self-hosted YouTube frontend

9. FreeTube PWA (FreeTubeCordova)★ 782 · active · Vue

   Android/PWA build of FreeTube, a private YouTube client

10. youtube-local★ 779 · active · JavaScript

    Browser-based YouTube client that fetches pages directly, no Google JS

11. yt2009★ 589 · active · JavaScript

    Recreation of the 2009 YouTube frontend backed by live YouTube data

12. pipe-viewer★ 515 · active · Perl

    Lightweight YouTube client that scrapes YouTube without an API key

13. TypeType★ 468 · active · Shell

    Privacy-respecting frontend for watching YouTube, Bilibili and NicoNico

14. ytify★ 465 · active · TypeScript

    Lightweight YouTube Music/YouTube audio streaming frontend

15. invidious-companion★ 215 · active · TypeScript

    Invidious companion service handling YouTube video streams via youtube.js

16. OpenTubeX★ 187 · active · JavaScript

    Alternative YouTube frontend

17. Piped-Material★ 172 · active · Vue

    Material Design frontend for the Piped YouTube proxy

18. LightTube★ 141 · archived · C#

    Lightweight, privacy-respecting YouTube frontend using InnerTube

19. Tubo★ 72 · active · Clojure

    Streaming frontend for YouTube, SoundCloud and more built on NewPipeExtractor

20. invuedious★ 53 · slowing · Vue

    Vue.js alternative frontend for Invidious instances

21. AudioTube★ 0

    KDE YouTube Music client built on ytmusicapi

22. CloudTube★ 0

    Alternative YouTube front-end using Invidious as a backend

23. Hyperpipe★ 0

    Privacy-respecting YouTube Music frontend backed by Piped

24. Poke★ 0

    Privacy-respecting YouTube frontend that also proxies weather and translation services

25. yt-local★ 0

    Fork of youtube-local: anonymous YouTube client without JavaScript