This program lets you watch YouTube videos in TTY - no needs to start X anymore!
Firstly, you need to install player and youtube downloader. I recomment mplayer as it is the most lightweight, but vlc and mpv can be used. For searchers install youtube-dl or yt-dlp
- Arch:
sudo pacman -S mplayer youtube-dl
- Debian / Ubuntu (install pip3 first):
sudo apt-get install mplayer youtube-dl
- Other distros: find on the internet and please share with me cuz I'm too lazy to search
After you've installed requirements, just run the commands below:
git clone https://github.com/xezo360hye/YTTY
mkdir -p ~/bin/
mv YTTY/ytty ~/bin/
This will move executable in your local bin folder. You can also install it system-wide using sudo mv YTTY/ytty /usr/local/bin/ instead
Run ytty [OPTIONS] Search request (may be quoted or not) or ytty [OPTIONS] --url URL
All options are CaSe insensitive
When using -url, you need to enter video code, e.g. in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ the code is dQw4w9WgXcQ
Note: mplayer uses framebuffer in this project so you need to switch to a TTY. To do this, press Alt + Ctrl + Fn, where n is any number except 7 (Debian/Ubuntu) or 1 (Arch mostly), because they are occupied with X
Example of playing some good music and video in 16px wide with cache size 2048 and no file out: ytty --url dQw4w9WgXcQ --size 16 --cache 2048 --no-save''
Note: you can set FORMAR (-f/--format) to empty string to play without saving, or use -n/--no-save
Example of playing Belupacito with MOAR cache and with saving: ytty -c 4096 -f "BELUPACITO | THE BEST SONG EVER" -- Belupacito
Note: you can set a static string for FORMAT
Note: you may add -- after all arguments to force stop parsing