terminal UI for viewing youtube subscriptions. Especially well suited for Raspberry Pi.
mpv_mode is enabled (default))mpv_mode is disabled)You can download a self-contained binary from releases page
Download your youtube subscriptions OPML. and save it as the following file: ~/.config/youtube-subscriptions/subscription_manager
press h for help.
You can optionnaly add a user configuration at
$HOME/.config/youtube-subscriptions/config.json
example:
```json { "videopath": "HOME/.cache/yts/videos", "cachepath": "HOME/.cache/yts/yts.json", "youtubedlformat": "[height <=? 360][ext = mp4]", "videoextension": "mp4", "players": [ ["/usr/bin/mplayer", "-fs"] ], "channelids": [], "mpvmode": true, "mpv_path": "/usr/local/bin/mpv" }
```
| field | description | default value
| ------ | ----------- | -------------
| videopath | directory where videos will be stored | /tmp
| cachepath | file path where video list will be stored | /tmp/yts.json
| players | list of players command for videos in order of priority |
| youtubedlformat | see youtube-dl doc | [height <=? 360][ext = mp4]
| videoextension | youtube-dl video extension as per format | mp4
| channelids | list of additional channel ids which will be also fetched | []
| mpvmode | try and start mpv to play the youtubee video first | true
| mpvpath | path to mpv binary (will be use if mpvmode is true) | /usr/bin/mpv
__HOME will be substituted with the home path.
You can update the subscriptions and download the last N videos by running. Here with N = 5:
sh
$ youtube-subscriptions 5
This is very usefull to download your subscriptions in a cron.
Don't forget to put the path were youtube-dl is installed.
Example crontab:
cron
PATH=/home/pi/.local/bin/:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
50 * * * * /home/pi/youtube-subscriptions 5 > /home/pi/youtube-subscriptions.log 2>&1
simply run:
sh
./cross-build-raspberry.sh
binary will be in target/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/release/youtube-subscriptions