yt

Get lastest videos of user subscriptions in a faster way. (using cookie)

Why not use YouTube's APIv3? The APIv3 does not provide a direct method to do this. You have to get recent uploads of each subscription and sort them by date manually. It is very inefficient.

Command

If you installed yt globally, you can open your YouTube subscription videos from terminal. Requires livestreamer and VLC player. Currently works on Mac OS X, Linux, Windows.

pip install livestreamer
npm -g i yt
yt

By default, yt will store your cookie and cache file in ~/.config/yt/.

Run yt -h for available command-line options.

Usage

• ↩️ (Enter) Play / Stop video
• ▶️ (Right / Tab / Space) Show details
• ◀️ (Left / Backspace / Esc) Back to list
• 🔼🔽 Scroll up / down
• ⏫⏬ (Shift) Page up / down
• ⏫⏬ Show details of prev / next video
• ↕️ (Shift) Home / End

API

var yt = require('yt');

// How to get cookie:
// 1. Open Google Chrome and right click the page and select Inspect Element.
// 2. Go to https://www.youtube.com/, log in if you don't have.
// 3. In Networks tab, click Documents and right click the first item in the
//    list and click Copy as cURL.
// 4. Copy the values of SID, HSID, SSID, LOGIN_INFO.
var cookie = {
  "SID": "",
  "HSID": "",
  "SSID": "",
  "LOGIN_INFO": ""
};

// Or you can directly assign the copied string to the cookie variable:
// var cookie = "curl 'https://www.youtube.com/' ... ";

// yt.subscription.get(pages <number/array>, cookie <object/string>)
// returns a Q promise;

yt.subscription.get(1, cookie).then(function(videos) {});

// or page 1 to 5:
yt.subscription.get([1,2,3,4,5], cookie).then(function(videos) {
  console.log(videos);
});

Example output:

[ { duration: '3:33',
    live: false,
    verified: true,
    description: 'This is the way salad is supposed to evolve...',
    userurl: 'https://www.youtube.com/user/EpicMealTime',
    username: 'Epic Meal Time',
    id: 'wfIAjuxbfr4',
    url: 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfIAjuxbfr4',
    thumbnails: {
      default: 'https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wfIAjuxbfr4/default.jpg',
      hqdefault: 'https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wfIAjuxbfr4/hqdefault.jpg',
      mqdefault: 'https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wfIAjuxbfr4/mqdefault.jpg',
      sddefault: 'https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wfIAjuxbfr4/sddefault.jpg',
      maxresdefault: 'https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wfIAjuxbfr4/maxresdefault.jpg'
    },
    title: 'Poultry Salad - Epic Meal Time',
    time: '3 hours ago',
    views: '15,804 views' },
...
]