diff --git a/multimedia/straw-viewer/README b/multimedia/straw-viewer/README
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+straw-viewer (search and stream videos from youtube)
+
+straw-viewer is a lightweight application for searching and streaming
+videos from YouTube, using the API of invidio.us. The project is in its
+early development stages and some features are not implemented yet.
+
+straw-viewer is a fork of youtube-viewer that does not require a Google
+API key. Usage and user interface are identical to youtube-viewer.
+
+Optional dependencies:
+
+perl-Gtk3, perl-File-ShareDir - for gtk-straw-viewer.
+perl-lwp-useragent-cached - for local cache support.
+perl-JSON-XS - for faster JSON deserialization.
+perl-Text-CharWidth, perl-Unicode-LineBreak - for better formatting
+                                              in the terminal.
+perl-Term-ReadLine-Gnu - for command editing/history in the terminal.
+youtube-dl [1] - if this is present, straw-viewer will use it to detect
+                 available formats for the video.
+
+Counting optional ones, straw-viewer has over 40 dependencies. To make
+life easier, there's a "straw-viewer.sqf" queue file included with this
+build, which includes everything listed above.
+
+[1] A small caveat about youtube-dl: straw-viewer works without it,
+though occasionally it'll choose a lower quality than is available
+for some videos. However, if youtube-dl is present but outdated,
+straw-viewer will fail to play videos at all! If you suspect this,
+remove youtube-dl and try without it.
+
+This build always includes the command-line client (straw-viewer). For the
+GTK client (gtk-straw-viewer), install perl-Gtk3 and perl-File-ShareDir
+before running this script. If you have them installed but don't want
+gtk-straw-viewer, you can set GTK=no in the script's environment.
+
+To force gtk-straw-viewer to use your preferred terminal for downloading
+with wget and watching in a terminal, set TERMINAL in the script's
+environment (e.g. TERMINAL="xterm" or TERMINAL="urxvt").
diff --git a/multimedia/straw-viewer/git2tarxz.sh b/multimedia/straw-viewer/git2tarxz.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Create source tarball from git repo, with generated version number.
+
+# Takes one optional argument, which is the commit or tag to create a
+# tarball of. With no arg, HEAD is used.
+
+# Version number example: 0.0.1+20200227_ad7ec17
+
+# Notes:
+
+# Do not use this if you're packaging a release.
+
+# This script doesn't need to be run as root. It does need to be able
+# to write to the current directory it's run from.
+
+# Running this script twice for the same commit will NOT give identical
+# tarballs, even if the contents are identical. This is because tar
+# includes the current time in a newly-created tarball (plus there may
+# be other git-related reasons).
+
+# Once you've generated a tarball, you'll still need a place to host it.
+# Ask on the mailing list, if you don't have your own web server to
+# play with.
+
+## Config:
+# Github project and user names:
+PRGNAM=straw-viewer
+GITUSER=trizen
+
+# For github projects, you can use this unmodified:
+CLONE_URL=https://github.com/$GITUSER/$PRGNAM.git
+
+# For non-github projects, you might not need GITUSER, in which case
+# just omit it from the script.
+
+## End of config.
+
+set -e
+
+GITDIR=$( mktemp -dt $PRGNAM.git.XXXXXX )
+rm -rf $GITDIR
+git clone $CLONE_URL $GITDIR
+
+CWD="$( pwd )"
+cd $GITDIR
+
+if [ "$1" != "" ]; then
+  git reset --hard "$1" || exit 1
+fi
+
+GIT_SHA=$( git rev-parse --short HEAD )
+
+DATE=$( git log --date=format:%Y%m%d --format=%cd | head -1 )
+
+VERTAG=$( git tag -l | tail -1 )
+
+VERSION=${VERTAG}+${DATE}_${GIT_SHA}
+
+rm -rf .git
+find . -name .gitignore -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
+
+cd "$CWD"
+rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION $PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.xz
+mv $GITDIR $PRGNAM-$VERSION
+tar cvfJ $PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.xz $PRGNAM-$VERSION
+
+echo
+echo "Created tarball: $PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.xz"
+echo "VERSION=\"$VERSION\""
+echo "MD5SUM=\"$( md5sum $PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.xz | cut -d' ' -f1 )\""
diff --git a/multimedia/straw-viewer/list-moreutils.diff b/multimedia/straw-viewer/list-moreutils.diff
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+diff -Naur straw-viewer-0.0.1/bin/gtk-straw-viewer straw-viewer-0.0.1.patched/bin/gtk-straw-viewer
+--- straw-viewer-0.0.1/bin/gtk-straw-viewer	2020-02-26 05:17:22.000000000 -0500
++++ straw-viewer-0.0.1.patched/bin/gtk-straw-viewer	2020-02-28 17:04:39.723002906 -0500
+@@ -643,11 +643,11 @@
+             undef $history{lc($line)};
+         }
+ 
+-        require List::Util;
++        require List::MoreUtils;
+ 
+         # Keep only the most recent non-duplicated entries
+-        @history        = reverse(List::Util::uniq(reverse(@history)));
+-        @search_history = List::Util::uniq(@search_history);
++        @history        = reverse(List::MoreUtils::uniq(reverse(@history)));
++        @search_history = List::MoreUtils::uniq(@search_history);
+ 
+         # Set entry completion
+         $completion = Gtk3::EntryCompletion->new;
diff --git a/multimedia/straw-viewer/slack-desc b/multimedia/straw-viewer/slack-desc
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+# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE:
+# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description.
+# Line up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and
+# the '|' on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in.
+# You must make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct.  It's also
+# customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines.
+
+            |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
+straw-viewer: straw-viewer (search and stream videos from youtube)
+straw-viewer:
+straw-viewer: straw-viewer is a lightweight application for searching and streaming
+straw-viewer: videos from YouTube, using the API of invidio.us. The project is in
+straw-viewer: its early development stages and some features are not implemented
+straw-viewer: yet.
+straw-viewer:
+straw-viewer:
+straw-viewer:
+straw-viewer:
+straw-viewer:
diff --git a/multimedia/straw-viewer/straw-viewer.SlackBuild b/multimedia/straw-viewer/straw-viewer.SlackBuild
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+++ b/multimedia/straw-viewer/straw-viewer.SlackBuild
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Slackware build script for straw-viewer
+
+# Written by B. Watson (yalhcru@gmail.com)
+
+# Licensed under the WTFPL. See http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/ for details.
+
+# 20200302 bkw: new build, based on youtube-viewer, of which straw-viewer
+# is a fork. See https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer/issues/308 for
+# why. Packaging a git commit because the latest (only) release has some
+# issues that have been fixed.
+
+PRGNAM=straw-viewer
+VERSION=${VERSION:-0.0.1+20200227_ad7ec17}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
+TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
+
+if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
+  case "$( uname -m )" in
+    i?86) ARCH=i586 ;;
+    arm*) ARCH=arm ;;
+       *) ARCH=$( uname -m ) ;;
+  esac
+fi
+
+CWD=$(pwd)
+TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
+PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM
+OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
+
+if [ "$ARCH" = "i586" ]; then
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
+elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
+elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
+else
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
+fi
+
+set -e
+
+rm -rf $PKG
+mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
+cd $TMP
+rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
+tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.?z
+cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
+chown -R root:root .
+find -L .  -perm /111 -a \! -perm 755 -a -exec chmod 755 {} \+ -o \
+        \! -perm /111 -a \! -perm 644 -a -exec chmod 644 {} \+
+
+# perl-Gtk3 is a runtime dep, we can build with GTK=yes even if it's not
+# installed... but don't do that by default.
+GTK="${GTK:-auto}"
+
+case "$GTK" in
+  no)  BUILD_GTK="no"  ;;
+  yes) BUILD_GTK="yes" ;;
+  *)   perl -MGtk3 -MFile::ShareDir -e 0 2>/dev/null \
+         && BUILD_GTK="yes" \
+         || BUILD_GTK="no" ;;
+esac
+
+[ "$BUILD_GTK" = "yes" ] && GTKOPT="--gtk"
+
+echo "=== GTK=$GTK  BUILD_GTK=$BUILD_GTK  GTKOPT=$GTKOPT"
+
+# 20200228 bkw: upstream claims gtk+3-3.20 is required, but everything
+# actually works fine with 14.2's 3.18. So:
+sed -i 's,"3.20","3.18",' share/gtk-$PRGNAM.glade
+
+# 20200228 bkw: 14.2's perl package has List::Util 1.4.1, which lacks
+# the uniq() function. However, SBo's perl-List-MoreUtils provides it.
+# This means we can ignore the build warning:
+# !  List::Util (1.41) is installed, but we need version >= 1.43
+patch -p1 < $CWD/list-moreutils.diff
+
+# 20200306 bkw: upstream must not have ever run 'make test' in a clean
+# environment...
+sed -i 's,Youtube,Straw,g' t/*.t
+
+perl Build.PL prefix=/usr installdirs=vendor --destdir="$PKG" $GTKOPT
+./Build
+./Build test
+./Build install --install_path script=/usr/bin
+mv $PKG/usr/share/man $PKG/usr/man
+gzip -9 $PKG/usr/man/man?/*.?
+
+if [ "$BUILD_GTK" = "yes" ]; then
+  # link .desktop and icon to standard locations
+  mkdir -p $PKG/usr/share/applications $PKG/usr/share/pixmaps
+  LNPATH="../perl5/vendor_perl/auto/share/dist/WWW-StrawViewer"
+  ln -s $LNPATH/gtk-$PRGNAM.desktop \
+    $PKG/usr/share/applications/gtk-$PRGNAM.desktop
+  ln -s $LNPATH/icons/gtk-$PRGNAM.png \
+    $PKG/usr/share/pixmaps/gtk-$PRGNAM.png
+
+  # support TERMINAL option for user's preferred terminal.
+  if [ "$TERMINAL" != "" ]; then
+    sed -i "s/'gnome-terminal'/'$TERMINAL', &/" $PKG/usr/bin/gtk-$PRGNAM
+  fi
+fi
+
+find $PKG -name perllocal.pod \
+  -o -name ".packlist" \
+  -o -name "*.bs" \
+  | xargs rm -f
+
+find $PKG -depth -type d -empty -delete || true
+
+mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+cp -a Changes LICENSE README* $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
+
+# the permissions in the final package are weird.
+find $PKG -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644
+find $PKG -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755
+chmod +x $PKG/usr/bin/*
+
+mkdir -p $PKG/install
+cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
+
+cd $PKG
+/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
diff --git a/multimedia/straw-viewer/straw-viewer.info b/multimedia/straw-viewer/straw-viewer.info
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+PRGNAM="straw-viewer"
+VERSION="0.0.1+20200227_ad7ec17"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/"
+DOWNLOAD="http://urchlay.naptime.net/~urchlay/src/straw-viewer-0.0.1+20200227_ad7ec17.tar.xz"
+MD5SUM="405dd0bc791b9a970c8b09dbde909fe3"
+DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
+MD5SUM_x86_64=""
+REQUIRES="perl-data-dump perl-LWP-Protocol-https perl-JSON perl-Module-Build perl-List-MoreUtils"
+MAINTAINER="B. Watson"
+EMAIL="yalhcru@gmail.com"
diff --git a/multimedia/straw-viewer/straw-viewer.sqf b/multimedia/straw-viewer/straw-viewer.sqf
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index 0000000000..dff04810ae
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+++ b/multimedia/straw-viewer/straw-viewer.sqf
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+perl-html-tagset
+perl-lwp-mediatypes
+perl-http-date
+perl-html-parser
+perl-encode-locale
+perl-IO-HTML
+perl-http-message
+perl-extutils-pkgconfig
+perl-extutils-depends
+perl-www-robotrules
+perl-net-http
+perl-http-negotiate
+perl-http-daemon
+perl-http-cookies
+perl-glib
+perl-file-listing
+perl-common-sense
+perl-cairo
+perl-Net-LibIDN
+Net-SSLeay
+perl-Types-Serialiser
+perl-Test-RequiresInternet
+perl-PAR-Dist
+perl-Mozilla-CA
+perl-MIME-Charset
+perl-List-MoreUtils-XS
+perl-IO-Socket-SSL
+perl-Glib-Object-Introspection
+perl-Exporter-Tiny
+perl-Class-Inspector
+perl-Canary-Stability
+perl-Cairo-GObject
+libwww-perl
+perl-lwp-useragent-cached
+perl-data-dump
+perl-Unicode-LineBreak
+perl-Text-CharWidth
+perl-Term-ReadLine-Gnu
+perl-Module-Build
+perl-List-MoreUtils
+perl-LWP-Protocol-https
+perl-JSON-XS
+perl-JSON
+perl-Gtk3
+perl-File-ShareDir
+straw-viewer