gabipurcaru / shelltube

YouTube player in the shell

ShellTube

I got tired of my YouTube tab burning through my laptop battery, so here you go: YouTube in your console, with a <50 line script!

Usage:

$ ./play.sh armin  # starts playing Armin van Buuren

To Do

• controls (e.g. space for pause, n for next, etc.)
• unlimited playing (right now it only plays the first 30 results and stops)

Installation

Dependencies:

• curl
• youtube-dl
• ffplay
• jq

You can install the dependencies like this:

Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get -y install curl youtube-dl ffmpeg jq

Arch:

$ sudo pacman -S curl youtube-dl ffmpeg jq

OSX (not tested):

$ brew install curl youtube-dl ffmpeg jq

Then you can download play.sh like this:

$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gabipurcaru/shelltube/master/play.sh > play.sh && chmod +x play.sh