cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/530920
Magic-tape is an image supporting fuzzy finder command line interface YouTube client.
https://gitlab.com/christosangel/magic-tape
Image support is achieved either with kitty terminal, ueberzug or chafa.
With magic-tape, through the main menu, the user can:
Browse videos from subscriptions.
Browse through trending video feed.
make a video search, using keywords or phrases.
Watch a previously watched video (watch history).
Browse videos from a subcsribed channel.
Watch a liked video.
Repeat the previous selection.
Repeat a previous search (search history).
Watch/download video/audio content, in various formats.
Through the miscellaneous menu the user can
Set up Preferences (configuration).
Like / Unlike a video.
Synchronize the above actions with their YouTube account.
Import subscriptions from YouTube.
Subscribe to/ Unsubscribe from a channel.
Clear their watch/search history, liked videos, thumbnail cache.
I tried to substitute rofi with fzf in vim, and when I try Preferences - it says
😕 Selection canceled...My main goal was to use this program on my server which has no GUI and I can access it from anywhere. For example, I successfully use
newsboatandneomuttremotely. When I saw TUI, I thought I could use that too headless, but you may wanna put a disclaimer that the script requires a GUI applicationrofi.Anyways, thanks for the project, I will keep an eye on it if it keeps developing, great idea! While troubleshooting this program I came across
ytfzfthat also supposedly supports subscriptions and seems like can work headlesslyThis is clearly stated in the instructions, and in the dependencies.
https://imgur.com/Anr1SSh.png
You might consider always read the instructions before installing anything.
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Don’t get mad, I’ve read. It’s a little unusual for me to see amongst 6 CLI dependencies on GUI one. But even installing a GUI application on a headless machine won’t do any good
I have made some updates that may concern you:
UPDATES:
~git/magic-tape/, now various files and directories are kept in various places.This way,magic-tape.shis in~/.local/bin/~/.cache/magic-tape/~/.config/magic-tape/rofi, orfzf(if the user wants to go full TUI).This can be configured during the P option of the misc menu.So if you want to go full tui, you can avoid
rofiand go fullfzf.Let me know how it goes if you try.
Thank you for the update. Can’t wait to try. Looks like GitLab is down right now (503) - I will look as they restore service
I know, I have just found out. Last night I also added dmenu as well as an action selector (together with fzf and rofi). Let me know how it goes!
Actual git still worked. I was able to
git pullI also figured out a way to launch the script using bash - needed to export $SHELL - the only way it worked. I could not update yt-dlp to the latest version - the latest I could install is 2023.06.22 from the side PPA repo. Official Ubuntu repo provides 2023.03 and pip breaks my system with compatibility issues that I don’t have desire to troubleshoot. I could try in the future downloading their binary but I don’t like when stuff doesn’t auto-update. The preferences worked this time and I was able to save them.yt-dlp gives me an error every time I try to browse either Trending or do a search. I have a TV with a cross and 1 option to Abort Selection.
I have a question: is the script dependent on having browser cookies? Because I don’t have any of the browsers installed on a headless machine. ANd I think that is what yt-dlp wasn’t happy about…
Downloading /feed/trending ... Traceback (most recent call last) : File "/usr/bin/yt-dlp", line 33, in <module> sys. , 'console_scripts' ' yt—dtp' Fite py", tine 1008, in main File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/yt_dlp/_init_.py", tine 962, in _real_main with YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA File "/usr/tib/python3/dist—packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", tine 762, in _ init self. _ setup_opener() File "/usr/Iib/python3/dist—packages/yt_dIp/YoutubeDL.py", tine 3929, in _ setup_opener self. cookiejar = load_cookies(opts_cookiefile, opts_cookiesfrombrowser, self) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/yt_dtp/cookies.py", line 106, in load_cookies extract_cookies_from_browser(browser_name, profile, YDLLogger(ydI), keyring=keyring, container=container)) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/yt_dlp/cookies.py", line 123, in extract_cookies_from_browser return _extract_firefox_cookies(profile, container, logger) File py", tine 148, in _extract_firefox_cookies raise FileNotFoundError(f' could not find Firefox cookies database in {search_root}') FiteNotFoundError: could not find Firefox cookies database in /home/user/. mozitta/firefox Completed /feed/trendinq.Exactly that. Yt-dlp works with browser cookies, You need one of the browsers, and to log in to your yt account.
Ah, yeah that’s what I figured.
Unfortunately, (or fortunately for me) I have not used YouTube in a traditional way in a very long time. I use FreeTube, Piped, Invidious, NewPipe, VueTube depending on the platform I currently am. And that is why I don’t have any cookies for it. I don’t really care for liking or commenting the videos as just watching them. All the above mentioned programs support own “offline” subscription lists, and most have interest-based profiles which you cannot achieve with a traditional YouTube account.
But yeah, sadly this not for me in its current form, I will join whoever added a comment here earlier about waiting for support of
json- based subscription lists - that is, of course, if you decide to go that route, or at least as bare minimum if you could remove the cookie requirement and have “anonymous search and view” functionality. I believe many of us here on Lemmy that are concerned about privacy will greatly appreciate that. YouTube itself,mpv, andyt-dlpdon’t really need cookies to watch a video.Thanks for troubleshooting this with me.