rsnic

rsnic (pronounced "arsenic") is the RuSt Neat Invidious Client.

It is a CLI-frontend for Invidious instances.

Features

• Search and play videos with a media player of your choice
• Search by uploader/channels
• Download videos/audio using a downloader of your choice
• Manage subscriptions from the CLI

Installation

Cargo installation coming soon.

Usage

Run rsnic search [query] to search, rsnic -h for help.

Configuration

rsnic creates a configuration file on first run, on Linux this is ~/.config/rsnic/rsnic.toml. It looks like this by default:

instance = 'https://invidious.snopyta.org'
player = 'mpv'
player_args = []
results = 20

Settings

• instance is the Invidious instance to use (if you have connection issues try switching this!)
• player is the media player to use, the default of mpv is highly recommended.
• player_args is for media player arguments, for example player_args = ['--no-audio'].
• results is the number of results to display after a search, the maximum is 20.

Alternatives

• mps-youtube (requires getting a YouTube API key?)
• straw-viewer (has a GTK+ and CLI version)
• Hosted Invidious instances
• Minitube
• SMTube