# yt-browse: a terminal interface for searching YouTube channels

DevFeed: [yt-browse: a terminal interface for searching YouTube channels](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/yt-browse-a-powerful-youtube-search-tui-40774.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://eieio.games/blog/yt-browse>)

Author: Nolen Royalty (eieiogames@gmail.com)

Published: 2026-03-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [eieio.games](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/eieio-games.md>)

Topics: [Text-based user interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tui.md>), [Tool](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tool.md>), [Claude Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/claude-code.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [claude-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/claude-code.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search.md>), [tool](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tool.md>)

## AI overview

The author presents yt-browse, a terminal user interface for searching YouTube channels. It imports a channel's videos and provides local search across videos and playlists, with filtering, sorting, date-range, fuzzy, and regex features. The author describes building it largely with Claude Code over a couple of days.

## Source excerpt

it's like search, but for youtube