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youtube-viewer (browse YouTube videos from a terminal or GTK UI)
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Youtube Viewer is a dedicated application for searching, viewing, and
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downloading Youtube videos, using wget for downloading and MPlayer for
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viewing. It has been written in Perl and plays videos from Youtube at
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the best quality available without using a flash player.
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Note: Google has revoked the API key formerly used by youtube-viewer. To
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use this, you'll have to create a Google account and register for an API
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key. See /usr/doc/youtube-viewer-$VERSION/README.md for instructions.
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See https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer/issues/308 for more
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information.
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If you don't like this restriction, try using straw-viewer instead.
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Optional dependencies:
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perl-gtk2, perl-File-ShareDir - for gtk2-youtube-viewer.
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perl-Gtk3, perl-File-ShareDir, perl-List-MoreUtils - for gtk3-youtube-viewer.
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perl-Text-CharWidth, perl-Unicode-LineBreak - for better formatting
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in the terminal.
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perl-Term-ReadLine-Gnu - for command editing/history in the terminal.
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youtube-dl [2] - if this is present, youtube-viewer will use it to detect
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available formats for the video.
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Counting optional ones, youtube-viewer has over 40 dependencies. To make
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life easier, there's now a "youtube-viewer.sqf" queue file included with
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this build, which includes everything listed above.
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[1] A small caveat about youtube-dl: youtube-viewer works without it,
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though occasionally it'll choose a lower quality than is available
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for some videos. However, if youtube-dl is present but outdated,
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youtube-viewer will fail to play videos at all! If you suspect this,
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remove youtube-dl and try without it.
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This build always includes the command-line client (youtube-viewer). For
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the GTK client (gtk-youtube-viewer), install perl-gtk2 and
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perl-File-ShareDir before running this script. If you have them installed
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but don't want gtk-youtube-viewer, you can set GTK=no in the script's
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environment.
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To force gtk-youtube-viewer to use your preferred terminal for downloading
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with wget and watching in a terminal, set TERMINAL in the script's
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environment (e.g. TERMINAL="xterm" or TERMINAL="urxvt").
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When upgrading to 3.2.4, I had to remove my old config file to get the new
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gtk-youtube-viewer to work correctly. If you have issues after an upgrade:
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rm -f ~/.config/youtube-viewer/gtk-youtube-viewer.conf
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