tmyt

Terminal youtube client

Small script to select videos in terminal and watch them with mpv.

Features

• Terminal user interface
• Download/watch videos
• Video quality selection
• Audio playback/download
• History, Favorite channels

Dependencies

• mpv (for watchling online)
• yt-dlp (for downloading)

Installation

• $ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tzrn/tmyt/main/tmyt
• $ chmod +x tmyt
• # mv tmyt /bin/tmyt

Usage

• tmyt opens defaut menu
• tmyt kittens searches for kittens plays selected
• tmyt -da kittens searches for kittens downloads audio of selected
• tmyt -v to go directly to the history
• tmyt -c to go directly to channels
• tmyt -b will play and download video at the same time
• channels added by editing ~/.config/tmyt/channels file. Each string should contain channel id and channel name separated by space. e.g. somechannel Channel name\n
• default download location is ~/Downloads to change it write wanted location to ~/.config/tmyt/dndir e.g. /home/robot/Videos
• To get whiptail colorscheme as shown on screenshot add following to your shell starting script (.bashrc .zshrc etc.)

export NEWT_COLORS='root=,black
border=red,black
title=red,black
roottext=red,black
window=red,black
textbox=white,black
compactbutton=white,black
listbox=white,black
actlistbox=black,white
actsellistbox=black,red'