ytmgoYouTube Music in your terminal
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Search, download, queue, and play music, all from the keyboard, inside your terminal. No browser, no bloat, no nonsense.

Install

Keybindings

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Native YouTube Music search

Talks to YouTube Music's own API directly. No key, no login, no proxy. Exact tracks with real metadata.

Autoplay radio

Queue runs dry? ytmgo queues what YouTube Music itself would play next, seeded by what you have actually listened to.

Download in one key

Press x on any track and it downloads, one at a time, with a progress bar, on a page of its own.

Favourites, history, library

f to bookmark, a listening-history page, and a filterable library of everything already on disk.

Full mouse support

Click tabs, click panels, click the seek bar to jump. Most terminal apps cannot do this.

Media keys

Play, pause and skip with your keyboard's media keys, or from your desktop's media widget, over MPRIS.

Synced lyrics

Press y for lyrics beside the queue, the current line following the song. Cached locally, so replays are instant.

Whole albums

Search albums, preview the tracklist, queue it or download the lot into its own numbered folder.

Eleven themes

Borrow your terminal's own colours, use ytmgo's, or pick a full scheme such as gruvbox, nord, dracula or catppuccin.

Install in one line

bash

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anas1412/ytmgo/main/install.sh | bash

On Arch it installs from the AUR; everywhere else it fetches the release binary, installs a desktop entry, and pulls in mpv, yt-dlp, ffmpeg and cava with your package manager.

See the install guide for per-distro detail, building from source, and how to remove it again.

ytmgoYouTube Music in your terminalBuilt with Go.