youtube-viewer vs PipeCat

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Lightweight YouTube client for Linux (by trizen)

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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. (by Wojnstup)

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youtube-viewer		PipeCat
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10	Mentions	2
1,144	Stars	33
-	Growth	-
7.4	Activity	0.0
4 days ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
Perl	Language	Python
Artistic License 2.0	License	-

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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

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youtube terminal player
4 projects | /r/commandline | 21 Oct 2021

There's one called PipeCat (sound only). It allows you to make playlists locally, shuffle play and stuff. Give it a shot https://github.com/Wojnstup/Pipecat
I made a CLI Spotify-like app for Linux that fetches songs from Youtube. It's open source and lightweight. All of the audio is played with mpv in command line, so it will work on Termux (Android). Any feedback apreciated!
2 projects | /r/commandline | 4 Oct 2021

What are some alternatives?

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

pipe-viewer - A lightweight YouTube client for Linux, without requiring an API key.

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

spotify-adblock - Adblocker for Spotify

Ultimate-Python-Resource-Hub - The Ultimate resource hub of Python: All at one place

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

browsh - A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers

FreeTube - An Open Source YouTube app for privacy

J.A.R.V.I.S - Personal Assistant built using python libraries. It does almost anything which includes sending emails, Optical Text Recognition, Dynamic News Reporting at any time with API integration, Todo list generator, Opens any website with just a voice command, Plays Music, Wikipedia searching, Dictionary with Intelligent Sensing i.e. auto spell checking, Weather Reporting i.e. temp, wind speed, humidity, YouTube searching, Google Map searching, Youtube Downloading, etc.

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]

typer - Typer, build great CLIs. Easy to code. Based on Python type hints.

rickroll-lang - The Rick Roll programming language is a rickroll based, process oriented, dynamic, strong, esoteric programming language. All of the keywords/statements are from Rick Astley's lyrics. Check our tutorial site, https://rick-lang.github.io/programming-language-explainer/