I created a small bash script to search and play videos from YouTube with mpv as the web interface is just abysmal. The source code can be found here: https://github.com/H-M-H/yt

It uses youtube-dl to do the search and so no API key is required.

  • dandelion
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    33 years ago

    suggesting to update it, update it!

    Yes, I find it kind of strange to see that youtube-dl is a package in Debian and Ubuntu, since even on Arch it is not updated very often. Therefore I download the binary in a user home and use the minus U to self update it, whenever it throws errors, and then one can see that the software gets updated pretty often. So far that always solved these issues.