erc-yt

Show inline clickable youtube thumbnails, info and description in erc buffers. Uses youtube api v3.

Screenshot

Usage

(require 'erc-youtube)
(add-to-list 'erc-modules 'youtube)
(erc-update-modules)

Or (require ‘erc-youtube) and M-x customize-option erc-modules RET

Customization

erc-yt-browse-function

By default left click on the thumbnail will open the video in your browser using the browse-url function. You can change this by customizing the variable erc-yt-browse-function.

erc-yt-cache-dir

By default we cache images in /tmp/erc-yt.

erc-yt-max-description-line

Youtube descriptions can be very long in practice, we limit this by default to 5 lines of text.