YouTube CLI - A YouTube client in the Terminal

Table of contents

• YouTube CLI - A YouTube client in the Terminal
  • What is this?
  • Installing
  • Building from source

What is this?

So, let's face it. You're one of... those Linux users. You know the ones.

• The ones that use Lenovo ThinkPads because they have FOSS firmware/drivers
• The ones that daily drive a WM instead of a DE
• The ones that haven't used a mouse in 10 years
• The ones that always beat their friends in Typeracer because they exclusively use a keyboard every day.

But somehow, you still use YouTube to watch videos. And you have to use the dinky-ass GUI browser to watch a video!

Well, this program solves that! A client for YouTube used completely in the terminal!

Installing

For this program you will need the following:

• Python 3.x (If you want to build from source)
• MPV player

Simply run this command...

wget https://github.com/CodyMarkix/Youtube-CLI/releases/download/latest/ytcli-x86-64 -O $HOME/.local/bin/ytcli

...and it'll be installed.

If there's a problem starting the program, check that ~/.local/bin is in your PATH variable.

Building from source

Clone the repository.

git clone https://github.com/CodyMarkix/Youtube-CLI

Cd into it, install the dependencies and run the build script.

cd Youtube-CLI && ./make installdeps && ./make build

If you want to install from source, run ./make install instead of ./make build.