godl

A fast and lightweight media downloader written in Go.

Features

• Easily add support for new websites
• Concurrent downloads
• HTTP Range Requests
• Cross-platform
• No dependency
• Written in Go

Supported Extractors

Site	Status
YouTube	✅
Generic HTTP/S	✅

Roadmap

• YouTube extractor
• Generic HTTP extractor
• Mp4 codecs support
• Another codecs support
• Resume interupted download
• Configuration support
• Thumbnail support
• Subtittles support

Requirements

• Go 1.25.4 or later (only if building from source)
• FFmpeg (required for merging audio/video and media processing)

Verify FFmpeg is installed:

ffmpeg -version

Installation

git clone https://github.com/s41ful/godl.git
cd godl
make build

Usage

godl [options] <URL>