mps-youtube or consume youtube like a pro

brontosaurusrex · 2014-06-27 10:32:14

about
is a new tool which, besides being able to download YouTube videos (either the whole video or just the audio), can also search and play YouTube videos and create local playlists, all from the command line.

links
http://www.webupd8.org/2014/02/new-comm … r-and.html
https://github.com/np1/mps-youtube

instaladar

sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install mps-youtube

start & configurar (just an example)

mpsyt
set show_video true
set
set window_pos top-left
set window_size 960x600
set search_music false

search

/blender

and a lot more ...

scrot

(poor) alternatives
a. Apparently it is possible to compile mpv in way that accepts youtube links directly, not working for me.
b. Various youtube_dl > mpv scripts, not working for me.

Last edited by brontosaurusrex (2014-06-27 11:57:25)

pvsage · 2014-06-27 15:26:32

Does this comply with the Youtube API, or does it circumvent it?

twoion · 2014-06-27 17:23:32

Apparently, it doesn't use the API (it utilizes libpafy to interface with youtube, which doesn't work with it by default AFAIU). https://github.com/np1/pafy/issues/28

brontosaurusrex · 2014-06-27 19:44:17

pvsage wrote:

Does this comply with the Youtube API, or does it circumvent it?

Seems to be in sid,

p.s. i haven't study the background at all, if you think its too fishy, feel free to delete the thread.

pvsage · 2014-06-27 19:52:34

I don't play that kind of hardball; I just wanted to be sure we brought up the issue before one of our hardliners chimed in.

Alad · 2014-08-04 09:42:02

Just tried mps-youtube, looks pure win so far.

As to youtube-dl + mpv, I use a .bashrc function:

yt() {
	mpv -quiet $(youtube-dl -g "$1")
}

Resident Bot · 2014-09-02 09:27:47

I am using this now instead of youtube-dl
maybe off topic? but I also use something that in use looks and feels very similar only it is for searching and downloading music - I heard abt it here
poor mans spotify
when you look in the folder the starter script is also called mps

johnraff · 2014-09-03 01:51:15

Re legality, morality etc - if it's in the Debian repos then I guess many intelligent and high-principled people have already been over the issues, and we needn't really go through it all again here.

Still...
The legal aspects of storing media locally vs streaming vary from country to country, but the internet is very widely accessible (I'd like to say universally accessible, but let's not forget countries like China) so software which is legal to use where it was written may not be legal in the country where you live.

Until the Internet Police find a way of monitoring your activity, it's basically up to you and your conscience...

btw there are also YouTube downloader addons available for Firefox on the Mozilla site, so they also have presumably thought this stuff through to some extent.

pvsage · 2014-09-03 06:34:49

@johnraff: ...except mps-youtube isn't in the Debian repos; python-pip is, and that is used to install Python scripts from a (hopefully trustworthy) third-party repo.

brontosaurusrex · 2014-09-03 18:45:41

pvsage wrote:

@johnraff: ...except mps-youtube isn't in the Debian repos; python-pip is, and that is used to install Python scripts from a (hopefully trustworthy) third-party repo.

it's not? https://packages.debian.org/jessie/amd6 … e/filelist

pvsage · 2014-09-03 20:34:29

^ Not in Stable anyway; I'd expect it to be one of the Freeze shakedown casualties, along with Minitube, which was in both Squeeze and Wheezy before their freezes.

brontosaurusrex · 2014-09-04 09:00:55

I see

vlax · 2014-09-04 20:11:40

nice, i like to not to use browser allways just to watch a video...

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