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Youtube from the Linux CLI

I really love listening to music when programming, on my old Linux laptop.

So, to save resources I looked for a CLI Youtube app. And there is an amazing one.

Enter yewtube

  • Yewtube is a fork of mps-youtube. Find yewtube here. Follow the instructions in the README.md file to install it.
  • Suggestion: install it within a virtual environment (virtualenv).
  • No API key is needed to use yewtube, in contrast with mps-youtube.

Worked for me with python 3.9.0 (installed it inside a virtualenv) on the following linux machine:

Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS
Release:	18.04
Codename:	bionic

Linux Newton 4.15.0-169-generic #177-Ubuntu SMP Thu Feb 3 10:50:38 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Limitations

  • N/A yet.

Error messages

  • N/A yet.

Printscreens

Just one, showing that it can play my locally saved 8h long awesome techno playlist:

2022-03-02-131036_1440x900_scrot

Cheers !

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