Open Source

Curated open-source projects across the full video creator lifecycle — inspiration research, scripting, asset collection, asset download, generation, repurposing & distribution, and publishing optimization.

yt-dlp

1500+ site video/audio CLI downloader, the active youtube-dl fork

100,000UnlicensePython

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Whisper

OpenAI's open-source speech recognition de-facto standard, 99 languages + multi-size models

68,000MITPython

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Scrapy

Industrial-grade Python crawler framework, large-scale structured scraping

50,000BSD-3-ClausePython

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cobalt

Open-source media download API + Web UI for 22+ platforms, zero ads

30,000AGPL-3.0TypeScript

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Faster-Whisper

Whisper CTranslate2 accelerated, 4x faster + 50% less VRAM

12,000MITPython

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ViMax

HKUDS open-source agentic video: director + screenwriter + producer

11,130MITPython

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gallery-dl

Image/gallery CLI downloader for 200+ sites, Pixiv-first design

10,000GPL-2.0Python

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