chvids

POSIX sh script for listing, watching and downloading YouTube channels videos from terminal

printed help and selected first channel

listed all channel videos

started playing second video

installation

$ git clone https://git.kocotian.pl/chvids
# make install

usage

There are 2 scripts - chvids, main script used to get channel videos and list them or play/download selected and second script, channels that is frontend to chvids, script gets urls from newsboat config file and parses them.

channels usage: simply write

$ channels

and you will get interactive prompt where you can type:

• l to list all channels
• s to select channel, if you type s, you will get next prompt, where you must write selected channel number or l/h/q
• h to get help
• q to quit

If you select channel, you will get next interactive prompt, now from chvids script. There are similar usage:

• l to list all videos
• p to play video
• d to download video
• h to help
• q to quit

p and d in chvids is similar to s in channels.

configuration

channels script is strictly based on newsboat config file. Script gets all YouTube links from file and parses them. If you want add or remove channels, open this file. File path is ~/.config/newsboat/urls. Remember that file must be in this format:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<CHANNEL ID> <Tab> "~<Channel name>"

for example:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC2eYFnH61tmytImy1mTYvhA	"~Luke Smith"

of course, channels is only frontend for main chvids scripts. You can write own scripts that will get an YouTube channel ID and give it as an argument to chvids script. chvids is less configurable, only thing that you would edit is OpenTube instance, but in time where i write this README, probably there are only one instance (maybe because code is only on my server for now, cause it's still in alpha, but i hope that in the nearest future code will be published for other peoples).