pipe-viewer
A lightweight YouTube client for Linux, without requiring an API key. (by trizen)
ytfzf
A posix script to find and watch youtube videos from the terminal. (Without API) (by pystardust)
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| pipe-viewer | ytfzf | |
|---|---|---|
| 17 | 84 | |
| 359 | 3,569 | |
| - | - | |
| 7.7 | 7.9 | |
| 23 days ago | about 2 months ago | |
| Perl | Shell | |
| Artistic License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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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.
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Audio issue on old 2006 laptop with 1GB RAM and 4GB swapfile
GTK+ Pipe Viewer (for Linux) : https://github.com/trizen/pipe-viewer
- Modern Web Browser Recommendations For OpenBSD?
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Recommend me a TUI youtube music player
perhaps pipe-viewer could be what you want?
- Gibt es einen Onlinedienst, der YouTube-Videos als Audiostream wiedergibt?
- Mps-youtube removed from repo?
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Minimal Distro Just For Web Browsing
How about https://antixlinux.com/ with https://github.com/trizen/pipe-viewer for watching youtube without a browser?
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best way to grab youtube link
trizens pipe-viewer Can search and download the video or audio stream using yt-dlp.
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Best CLI apps and programs when SSH just works?
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
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[OC] Search YouTube from the terminal
Cool :) Reminds me a lot of pipe-viewer
- Recommend a "YouTube from CLI" app/stack aka I want YouTube CLI app
ytfzf
Posts with mentions or reviews of ytfzf.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-02.
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Distro for Acer Aspire One
I've been playing with ytfzf recently which is quite cool for browsing yt on grim hardware
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I created a Spotify Downloader for the command line
# install python packages, including yt-dlp pip install -r requirements.txt # install ytfzf git clone https://github.com/pystardust/ytfzf cd ytfzf sudo make install doc
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pulling out the old "american website" card on an r/Birmingham post about this sub
Sounds like you need an adBlocker. And/or alternative ways of watching YT content. Not exactly sure how this works on other OSs, but on Linux I use ytfzf to browse, and mpv to watch by youtube link.
- Could you recommend a lightweight distro for my old laptop?
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Is it possible to daily drive the Pinephone pro? Or is it just not ready yet?
YouTube: in Browser is a pain but ytfzf works well for me.
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searching and watching youtube (with thumbnails) entirely within a terminal (using sixel)
I am using ytfzf with a custom interface that I wrote in python because I couldn't find an interface that supports sixel.
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What are the pros and cons of running Linux (Kubuntu) from a usb drive?
it is one of these. I plan to use it for running cli programs like ytfzf in the terminal
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Find anything you need with fzf, the Linux fuzzy finder tool
fzf has long found its way into many scripts, a bit like dmenu. My favorite: ytfzf.
- Recommend me a TUI youtube music player
- Super 8 Film Editor Reborn As A YouTube Terminal
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pipe-viewer and ytfzf you can also consider the following projects:
youtube-viewer - Lightweight YouTube client for Linux
yewtube - yewtube, forked from mps-youtube , is a Terminal based YouTube player and downloader. No Youtube API key required.
streamlink - Streamlink is a CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player
yewtube - Terminal based YouTube player and downloader. No Youtube API key required. Forked from https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube
ani-cli - A cli tool to browse and play anime
FreeTube - An Open Source YouTube app for privacy
tartube - A GUI front-end for youtube-dl, partly based on youtube-dl-gui and written in Python 3 / Gtk 3
straw-viewer - **DEPRECATED** Use https://github.com/trizen/pipe-viewer instead.
ytdl-gui - A simple-to-use, cross-platform graphical interface for youtube-dl.
csv.vim - A Filetype plugin for csv files
mpv - 🎥 Command line video player