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Scraper

Installation

Scraper ships as two programs that share the same download engine and settings file:

  • scraper: the command-line tool and terminal dashboard.
  • scraper-gui: the desktop app.

Download a release

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Latest v1.3.0Released Nov 12, 2026What's newAll releases

Desktop app CLI · Apple Silicon CLI · Intel

The desktop app is a universal build for Intel and Apple Silicon. If it's unsigned, right-click it and choose Open the first time.

The buttons always point at the newest release. Extract the archive and run scraper (or open the desktop app). The Firefox tab-export extension and older versions are on the releases page.

Runtime requirements

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  • ffmpeg on PATH, for YouTube downloads whose video and audio aren’t already in one stream (they are muxed together automatically).
  • Optional: yt-dlp on PATH, used as a fallback for YouTube videos the built-in downloader can’t fetch. See YouTube.

Install with Go

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With Go 1.26.11 or newer:

Terminal window
go install github.com/rajbahakdanyu/scraper/cmd/scraper@latest

Or build from a clone:

Terminal window
go build -o scraper ./cmd/scraper

To build the desktop app yourself, see Contributing.

Shell completion

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Terminal window
source <(scraper completion bash)
source <(scraper completion zsh)

fish and powershell are also supported. scraper version prints the installed version.