YouTube client on your terminal

MeowTube

YouTube client on your terminal

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About

MeowTube is a CLI (Command Line Interface) to interact with youtube videos or audios and easy to play it via VLC. No need any account to use it.

Getting Started

First, make sure VLC already installed on your machine.

Prerequisites

  1. VLC Media Player Installed

  2. Register VLC (location where VLC installed) to your PATH variable

  3. for windows user, better to use cmder, ANSI color supported by default

  4. Check everything is good, type vlc on your terminal / cmd.

    vlc

Register VLC to the PATH

  • Linux, no need extra step
  • Mac OS / OSX, See Official Doc and then export that location to your .zshrc or .bashrc 
    echo export PATH=$PATH:/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS >> ~/.zshrc && source ~/.zshrc
  • Windows, see Official Doc and then copy that directory location to your PATH on your environment variable (see reference).

Installing

  1. Download MeowTube via release page
  2. Choose which target OS do you use
  3. Extract the downloaded file
  4. Move the file to any folder what you want (OPTIONAL)
  5. Register MeowTube to your PATH variable (choose where meowtube is located)
  6. Create an alias for MeowTube (OPTIONAL)

Register MeowTube to the PATH

  • unix based(linux & macos). export to .zshrc or .bashrc 
    echo export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/MEOWTUBE_LOCATION_FOLDER >> ~/.zshrc && source ~/.zshrc
  • Windows, copy the directory location to your PATH on your environment variable (see reference)

Usage

Check everything is good. Type on your terminal

meowtube

or

meowtube --help

Command Line Arguments

Argument Description
help Help about any command
play To play YouTube video
popular To see popular videos on YouTube
search To search for videos according to certain characters
trending To see trending videos on YouTube

Play Arguments

Argument Description
:YoutubeURL Valid YouTube video url e.g: https://youtu.be/0FZZJHuQMFs
:videoId Valid Youtube videoId e.g: "tMzjKjV6r_w"
audio To play audio only
playlist To play all videos from YouTube playlist
video To play YouTube video

NOTE: Every argument has --help flag to see their specific usage

✍️ Authors

🎉 Acknowledgements

Owner
Abdul Fattah Ikhsan
Chief Everything Officer ⚡
Abdul Fattah Ikhsan
https://github.com/ikhsanalatsary/MeowTube
Comments
  • Timeout 403 unable to request

    Timeout 403 unable to request

    meowtube play video "videoIDhere" -r 1080p Request video... Get "https://uptime.invidious.io/api/getMonitorList/89VnzSKAn?page=1&_=1611588676444": dial tcp: lookup uptime.invidious.io on 192.168.1.1:53: read udp 192.168.1.30:55250->192.168.1.1:53: i/o timeout

    running latest version. until last night was working fine.

  • Unexpected url format

    Unexpected url format

    Using Meowtube v1.2.0. There is an videoID that uses - in the leading of their characters. But go cannot remove single quotes on string characters automatically.

     meowtube play video '-ffooJCx37c' --resolution 720p
Request video...
Failed request url https://invidious.zee.li/api/v1/videos/'-ffooJCx37c'?fields=formatStreams,title,author,genre,adaptiveFormats,lengthSeconds
statusCode:  500
Unable to request
  • bugs and questions

    bugs and questions

    Hello, when using search --type video --page 1, the request url ends with &page=\x01 and a error message shows: invalid control character in URL.

    Besides using the --page option, is there another way to restrict the number of results returned from a search?

    I also would like to ask if it's possible to change the default resolution for videos? Maybe via the config file?

    Thanks a lot.

  • Bypass DDOS Protection

    Bypass DDOS Protection

    Nowadays, the problems are coming from invidious instances. Most of them have DDOS protection by Cloudflare. Then I think, We can use headless chrome, but I am not sure if it is the only way.

  • Interactive terminal

    Interactive terminal

    The idea of this project is from a Spotify client, a plugin on Oh_My_ZSH that works on macOS only. Then, after all my works are done. I saw an awesome project like bubletea, I think, I can use that to make this more interactive and beautiful. This will be a rewrite (not sure if it can be combined with cobra), I think this is for the next major release.

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