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ytcc tracks selected playlists on YouTube and other services from the command line.
About ytcc
ytcc is a command line tool for following playlists and feeds in one local database. It handles any playlist supported by yt-dlp or youtube-dl, with examples for YouTube channels and playlists, SoundCloud track lists, and RSS podcast feeds. The project is GPL-3.0 licensed, and installation is documented through PyPI and packages for several Linux distributions.
Pricing is not clearly stated.
Key features
- Add subscriptions with a name and URL using ytcc subscribe
- Import YouTube subscriptions from a Google Takeout subscriptions.csv file
- Fetch metadata for new videos with ytcc update
- List and filter videos by playlist, date, and watched status
- Output video listings as JSON or RSS
- Start an interactive terminal interface with ytcc tui
- Mark videos watched and play audio-only from a list
- Use a thumbnail-capable script variant with fzf 0.23.1 or newer
Best for: Command-line users who want a local tracker for YouTube, SoundCloud, and RSS playlists.
Watch out for
- A subscription does not save discovered videos to the database until ytcc update runs.
- The update command checks only the first 20 videos in each playlist by default; --max-backlog can change that.
ytcc at a glance
- Website
- github.com/woefe/ytcc
- Category
- Social & Communities › YouTube Tools
- Type
- Open-source project
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Platforms
- Linux
- Details verified
- Oct 22, 2026 · Official source
- Open source
- Yes · Source code
- Language
- English
- Last checked
- Oct 5, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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