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starchive

starchive is an open-source video downloaders project written in Go with 251 stars on GitHub.

The authors describe it as: “browser plugin to send youtube, insta (all social videos) to local backend and process audio and video in all sorts of ways.”

Category
Video downloaders
Type
Open source
Platform
Go project
Pricing
Free / open source
License
MIT
GitHub stars
251
Last updated
2025-08-31

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Top starchive alternatives

yt-dlp“A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader”
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Seal“🦭 Video/Audio Downloader for Android, based on yt-dlp”
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ArchiveBox“🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...”
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cat-catch“猫抓 浏览器资源嗅探扩展 / cat-catch Browser Resource Sniffing Extension”
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metube“Self-hosted video downloader for YouTube and other sites (web UI for yt-dlp)”
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pytube“Lightweight, dependency-free Python library and CLI for downloading YouTube videos, playlists, and captions.”
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Frequently asked

What is starchive?

starchive is an open-source video downloaders project written in Go with 251 stars on GitHub. The authors describe it as: “browser plugin to send youtube, insta (all social videos) to local backend and process audio and video in all sorts of ways.”

Is starchive free?

starchive is open source — free to use; check its license for redistribution terms.

What are the best starchive alternatives?

The closest alternatives in the same category include yt-dlp, Seal, ArchiveBox, cat-catch, metube — each has a live profile with facts and its own alternatives list on this hub.