youtube-subscriptions

terminal UI for viewing youtube and/or peertube subscriptions. Especially well suited for Raspberry Pi.

requirements

• mpv to stream videos (if mpv_mode is enabled (default))
• youtube-dl to download youtube videos (if mpv_mode is disabled)
• omxplayer or vlc or mplayer or mpv to play videos

installing

You can download a self-contained binary from releases page

setup (youtube)

Download your youtube subscriptions OPML (you can do that by pressing 'c' in the app).

and save it as the following file: ~/.config/youtube-subscriptions/subscription_manager

setup (peertube)

Create a configuration file (see configuration section) and add the channel urls you want to register to channel_urls list.

usage

press h for help.

configuration

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", "kindsymbols": { "Audio": "ﱘ", "Video": "", "Other": "" }, "players": [ ["/usr/bin/mplayer", "-fs"] ], "channelids": [], "channelurls": [], "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 | blockishplayer | blockish player to use (supersedes players) | None | 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 | kindsymbols | hash of characters to describe the media | { "Audio": "a", "Video": "v", "Magnet": "m", "Other": "o" } | channelids | list of additional channel ids which will be also fetched | [] | channelurls | list of additional channel urls which will be also fetched (can be used for peertube) | [] | 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 | openmagnet | tool to use to open magnet links (e.g. transmission-remote-cli | None

__HOME will be substituted with the home path.

cross compiling for raspberry pi

simply run:

sh ./cross-build-raspberry.sh binary will be in target/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/release/youtube-subscriptions