yet is a console (kind of rss) application to download youtube videos. It uses subscriptions.json file which comes with your youtube export data. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface. It uses youtube-dl to download videos.
- Python>=3.6
- youtube-dl
- xmltodict
- You can install yet through PyPi: pip install ye-tui
- Checkout this project: git clone https://github.com/nevarman/yet
- cd /yet
- sudo python setup.py install
First export your youtube data from https://takeout.google.com/, it should come with a subscriptions.json file. Move the subscriptions.json into ~/.config/yet folder.
Run 'yet' from your terminal emulator.
Use arrow keys or 'h,j,k,l' to navigate around. D to download, V to open in VLC media player(if installed) and O to open in browser. You can change the keybindings from the config file.
The downloaded video files are saved under $HOME/Videos directory. You can change the path from config file.
Copy the yet/config/yet.conf from this repo or from python package directory, into ~/.config/yet folder. The config file is self explanatory.