pipe-viewer vs youtube-viewer

pipe-viewer

A lightweight YouTube client for Linux, without requiring an API key. (by trizen)

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Lightweight YouTube client for Linux (by trizen)

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359	Stars	1,140
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7.7	Activity	7.4
23 days ago	Latest Commit	23 days ago
Perl	Language	Perl
Artistic License 2.0	License	Artistic License 2.0

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pipe-viewer

Posts with mentions or reviews of pipe-viewer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-25.

Audio issue on old 2006 laptop with 1GB RAM and 4GB swapfile
1 project | /r/linuxhardware | 28 Jun 2023

GTK+ Pipe Viewer (for Linux) : https://github.com/trizen/pipe-viewer
Modern Web Browser Recommendations For OpenBSD?
2 projects | /r/openbsd | 25 Jan 2023
Recommend me a TUI youtube music player
2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 8 Nov 2022

perhaps pipe-viewer could be what you want?
Gibt es einen Onlinedienst, der YouTube-Videos als Audiostream wiedergibt?
3 projects | /r/de_EDV | 27 Oct 2022
Mps-youtube removed from repo?
2 projects | /r/archlinux | 3 Sep 2022
Minimal Distro Just For Web Browsing
1 project | /r/linux | 20 Aug 2022

How about https://antixlinux.com/ with https://github.com/trizen/pipe-viewer for watching youtube without a browser?
best way to grab youtube link
5 projects | /r/commandline | 1 Aug 2022

trizens pipe-viewer Can search and download the video or audio stream using yt-dlp.
Best CLI apps and programs when SSH just works?
30 projects | /r/selfhosted | 19 Apr 2022

This looks like a fork of mps-youtube which I used and liked before the development stopped. Nowadays I use pipe-viewer from trizen which is not reliant on npm and feels lighter as far as I can tell. https://github.com/trizen/pipe-viewer
[OC] Search YouTube from the terminal
4 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 27 Feb 2022

Cool :) Reminds me a lot of pipe-viewer
Recommend a "YouTube from CLI" app/stack aka I want YouTube CLI app
2 projects | /r/commandline | 14 Feb 2022

youtube-viewer

Posts with mentions or reviews of youtube-viewer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-17.

This might be a repost but I was wondering if on there was a program (linux debian based) that would allow you to make searches on youtube for videos (preferely based on mpv) kinda line ani-cli for gogoanime ? (or if there's a way to repurpose ani-cli to search on youtube)
4 projects | /r/commandline | 17 Jun 2022

https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer is the one that I use right now
Is there any way for qutebrowser to play youtube videos with h264 codec?
1 project | /r/qutebrowser | 25 Dec 2021

youtube-viewer is imo also really, really fast with loading a yt video into mpv (doesn't use youtube-dl/yt-dlp).
Youtube alternative
11 projects | /r/PrivacyGuides | 4 Dec 2021

YouTube Viewer (linux only)
youtube terminal player
4 projects | /r/commandline | 21 Oct 2021

There is this https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer and this https://github.com/pystardust/ytfzf
Alternatives to playing YouTube in mpv?
2 projects | /r/qutebrowser | 16 Oct 2021
Easiest way to install older versions of mpv?
2 projects | /r/mpv | 4 Jul 2021

Why not updating to something else? https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer
Did anything change to youtube ads? Not blocked anymore.
2 projects | /r/qutebrowser | 6 May 2021

I say this everytime when qb + mpv comes up, but in my experience youtube-viewer opens URLs a lot faster than if you would just use mpv (you can test this from the commandline, mpv/youtube-viewer $URL — be sure the appropiately configure youtube-viewer first, so that it directly launches mpv). It also has a pretty nice config for storing youtube-related playback preferences.
Is there a lightweight youtube client?
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 16 Mar 2021
Youtube UI
1 project | /r/AskComputerScience | 7 Jan 2021

Do you mean like GTK Youtube Viewer for Linux computers, or NewPipe for Android?
Searching and playing youtube videos simply with one command using fzf or dmenu.
2 projects | /r/linux | 26 Dec 2020

you might wanna check this out. Its always nice to use lightweight options but it has some perks...i noticed it starts those videos faster for example that simply mpv "ytb link" with its ytbdl hook

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pipe-viewer and youtube-viewer you can also consider the following projects:

yewtube - yewtube, forked from mps-youtube , is a Terminal based YouTube player and downloader. No Youtube API key required.

spotify-adblock - Adblocker for Spotify

yewtube - Terminal based YouTube player and downloader. No Youtube API key required. Forked from https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube

FreeTube - An Open Source YouTube app for privacy

yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

straw-viewer - **DEPRECATED** Use https://github.com/trizen/pipe-viewer instead.

ytdl-patched - Possibly missing fixes on youtube-dl. brew install nao20010128nao/my/ytdl-patched [GET https://api.github.com/repositories/287858674: 403 - Repository access blocked]

csv.vim - A Filetype plugin for csv files

PipeCat - A command line Youtube music player written in python. It's an app written for Linux. It also supports offline playlists that are stored in a playlists.db file. More documentation coming soon.

Piped - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

ytfzf - A posix script to find and watch youtube videos from the terminal. (Without API)